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At Western Michigan - Sunday October 20


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I guess it is time to start this topic...

probably the most important MAC league game of the year

 

Western Michigan is quite good and they are at home

last night, they traveled to Ann Arbor and got a win over the Big Ten Wolverines

WMU is 1-0 in the league (a 3-1 win at West Vriginia) and they are 9-4 overall

they are on 5 match winning streak

 

their season

2-1 opening season loss at Butler

4-0 home win over Niagara

1-0 home overtime loss to DePaul

4-0 win at Green Bay

5-1 home win over Cincinnati

1-0 win at Michigan State

1-0 overtime loss at Virginia

   Virginia is 11-0-1 and ranked #1 in the country

4-3 home over time loss to Jesus "Chino" Perez and his Illinois Chicago teammates

1-0 win at Xavier

1-0 home win over Loyola Marymount (LMU was ranked 22 in the country at time of the match)

3-2 win at Oakland

3-1 win at W. Virginia

2-1 win at Michigan

 

looks like video of Akron at WMU will be available on ESPN Plus

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My point was that the match v BUGS was just as important at the time. Please explain if you believe it was not.

 

This match will be tough. WMU is very good (referring to their 2019 results and their current RPI). We can't afford to lose focus...100% full-time Akron Soccer effort required.

 

Hopefully, a decent contingent of Zips Men's Soccer fans make their way to Kalamazoo tomorrow. It's a 2 pm match. Head up their by 9 am; be home by 9 pm. Nice Sunday drive. Please, those who can, let's do our part to support our team. I don't think this is an exact address, but 4502 Campus Dr, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 should get you close enough to find it.

 

GO ZIPS!!!

 

 

 

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19 minutes ago, AyYo said:

With Akron and WMU being probably the best two teams in the MAC and both being 1-0-1 with three games left, does anyone know what the tiebreaker would be if these two teams finished tied for 1st?

way too early to be worrying about that....

Southern Illinois Edwardsville(SIU-E) is  the league leader at 2-0-0  and they come to Akron Friday night

Akron will have to play that game without Marco Milanese

Carlo Ritaccio was not able to play today...not sure of his status for Friday

 

SIU-E is a very good team.

Jared is a great coach....and will have this team focused on one game at a time

 

I am proud of this team.    They had to play without a pre season all american at center back.  They got kicked in the teeth at 44 seconds....

and battled back to tie it at half time

they played 33 minutes a man down....against a team ranked #27 in RPI (and WMU had won at Michigan on Thursday night)

   these zips are fighting and battling

proud of them

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2 hours ago, bigzipguy said:

Down a man for well over 25 minutes, on the road, getting a draw - great job. Does anybody know if the second yellow on Marco was warranted?

Both yellow cards were warranted. Marco arguably could have earned three yellow cards.  He seemed destined for ejection from the outset.

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1 hour ago, AyYo said:

Coach Embick said on the recap video from the Twitter account that Carlo suffered an injury in training yesterday but should be back on Friday.

Thanks, AyYo...for letting us know about the twitter update

they got that posted quickly

 

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