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In the past, we used to have issues at BUGS because they "park the bus" which they did again packing their penalty area with defenders again last night. However, we now seem to let them dictate the style of play. Frustrating to watch us at times continue to keep the ball in the air when we had time to settle it to the ground and play our style. Harder than it looks, especially on the road, but I had hoped that we would settle in more and dictate our style of play. 3 MAC matches on the road sucks, but on to Chicago State. One at a time, please Zips. No looking ahead.

It’s tough having to watch the closest MLS team vie for one of the final 2022 MLS Cup playoff spots, but I can’t be upset when another of our ZipsMSoc alum and his team qualify. Congratulations to DeAndre Yedlin and Inter Miami on clinching a playoff spot last night.

Notorious, that is.

Chad Barson cleared the ball off the line via his shin, but the ESPN announcer mistakenly said looked like Valentin. As I recall, the barrage occurred for what seemed like an eternity of about 1 minute from 88:29 to 89:28.

. moved to @ BUGS - October 6th thread

Thanks @LoyalZIP and ZTV. Love the story about the linesman [corrected] walking off during the Cal game. That's the first time I've heard one of the coaches tell the story. Worth listening for that story and the story about preparing for and playing Louisville in the title game. MANY THANKS for posting that. 12 years later, and I still tear up watching and re-living the Zips Mens Soccer 2010 National Championship experience as well as the 2009 season, knowing how GREAT that team was!

Thanks @TennZip We saw James and Josh Bartels at the NIU game. What a great game for Zips recruiting. Witnessing the Zips play, I can just imagine recruits saying sign me up!!!

Games through Oct 2 (Gaucho Dan RPI, http://rpiupdatemenssoccer.blogspot.com/search/label/RPI Rank) 18 Akron 20 FIU 97 VCU 128 Wright State 60 Michigan St 26 Indiana 16 blOSU 29 Pitt 58 Penn St 35 Duquesne 149 NIU 113 BUGS 195 Chicago St 47 WMU 55 Cleveland State

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Yes, that is correct. With the MAC only fielding 5 Men's Soccer teams this season, the 2022 MAC automatic NCAA Tournament berth will be decided by 1 additional game between the top 2 teams at the end of the regular season, during which each team will play the others home and away. Given the regular season format, the 1 game "playoff" seems silly, but it is the MAC.

Huge shout out to #6 Sammy Tojaga who, in this game, looked like he hasn't missed a beat! As @TennZipalready stated, so happy to have Sammy back in the starting lineup and getting significant, well-played minutes. Shout out to #23 Joel Sangwa who is a stalwart on defense. Making good decisions and rarely going back to the Keeper...keeping the defense out of trouble. Shout outs to #11 Will Jackson who has stepped in beautifully at CB and #27 Ashton Kamdem for his play at LB. Shout out to #5 Malik Henry whose speed and agility opened up play. Shout out to #4 to Jonas Buechte and his many great decisions and steady play. Agree with malonepioneer on shout outs to #7 Josh Hallenberger, #8 Ryan Kingsford, and #19 Dyson Clapier. Shout outs to #1 GK Mitch Budler, #13 Joey Paulus, #9 Jason Shokalook, #15 Johnny Fitzgerald, and #16 Wan Kuzri Wan Kamal. Shout outs to all of our players who came in and played well giving the starters needed rest. Commanding victory thanks to GREAT TEAM EFFORT!!! Let's keep this going!!! GO ZIPS!!!

St Louis City 2 is led by Head Coach John Hackworth, father of ZipsMSoc alum Morgan Hackworth and their roster includes Wan Kuzain Bin Wan Kamal, who was at one time a ZipsMSoc recruit and is the brother of current ZipsMSoc MF Wan Kuzri Wan Kamal.

Congratulations to Captain Marco Micaletto, Abdi Mohamed, Danny Strachan, and Columbus Crew2 who won the MLSNEXTPro Eastern Conference championship tonight and will host St Louis City 2 on Oct 8 at Lower.com Field for the MLSNEXTPRO Cup Championship.

Couldn’t watch last night. Actually both goals came late. What a finish!!!

All having lost to WMU

The Crew actually scored in stoppage time (90’ + 3’) and won thanks to Jacen Russell-Rowe and Derrick Etienne. 😃

I guess my response was a bit stronger than I intended. Your post here did not solely lead to my comment about your seeming "worship' of our AD but rather your directing folks to Chad plus a number of posts which seem to indicate our AD can do no wrong. Perhaps a bad conclusion. As far as the streaming operation, I have heard that there is no operation in our Athletic Dept that is not scrutinized by our AD. So, I doubt that Chad Welker chose whether or not the Mens Soccer broadcast was on ESPN+ or its importance in general. I also doubt that Chad was allowed to hire the person who was running the camera in First Energy Stadium Wednesday evening.

I'm not sure why comments go to Chad Welker and not Charles Guthrie. Sorry, but I don't share your seeming worship for the guy at the top. He's making some good decisions but he's also floundering on others. It's a tough job, and no one is perfect, but he should be able to respond to warranted criticism as well as praise.

Line up had to be shuffled again. Kudos to our players for stepping up and doing as needed. I hope they can consistently keep this going. As I said before, I know they can compete with any D1 NCAA team. They just need to really want it and play hard for the full 90 minutes. Go Zips!

Actually, that was a 7-0 home win over Howard (not James Madison a 2nd time 😉)