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Top Drawer soccer....obviously chooses the zips and the Hoosiers as a huge Friday night game https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/mens-weekend-preview:-huge-friday-games_aid49843

Bezera is definitely their key guy Bezera finished 2nd last year for the hermann trophy https://www.idsnews.com/article/2021/09/star-forward-victor-bezerra-returns-from-injury-for-indiana-mens-soccer

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-national-top-100/men top drawer soccer thinks that Hoosier player Victor Bezerra is the 2nd best player in college soccer TDS has Indiana goal keeper Roman Celentano as the top rated GK in college soccer...and the 9th best player in college soccer Defender Spencer Glass is rated by TDS as the 18th best player in college soccer You will remember that TDS says that Pitt had 3 of the top 7 players in the Country. Akron, according to TDS ....has no upperclassmen worthy of being in their to 100 hmmm.....and Akron won when they played Pitt !!!! continuing the Hoosier ranking fest... Defender Daniel Munie is rated at the 36th best player in college soccer Forward Herbert Endeley is rated as the 75th best player in college soccer Akron and Indiana each had one player selected to the TDS pre season All American freshman team Freshman Best XI F: Caden Stafford (Maryland), Sandor Pelle (Yale), Ilijah Paul (Washington) M: William Reilly (Stanford), Bailey Sparks (SMU), Zemi Rodriguez (American), Tommy Mihalic (Indiana) 😧 D Kieran Sargeant (Georgetown), Dante Huckaby (Louisville), Jonas Buechte (Akron) GK: Emmanuel Smalios (St. John's) In their weekly polls this week, top drawer soccer does not have Akron in the top 25 College soccer news does not have Akron in their top 30 In this week's college soccer coaches poll (voting was done before the game against Pitt....Indiana was voted number 9 and Akron was voted number 16 https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/

Great team performance.....the defenders and GK's worked their tails off.... the forwards and wingers....were simply outstanding.... the midfielders ran all over the field...Renato has quickly become a favorite....he is feisty and does not back down Hoping that Samu will be back for Friday's big match. Samu is the best ball winner on the team as HMF Finally, it was great to see our new Athletic director on the field with his young children after the game I am so glad that Larry the Lawyer....has moved on. Charles Guthrie has made a strong first impression.

can you please post a link to an article that shows that the game will be on regular big ten network? https://btn.com/shows/ when I go to their site and key in September 15, their site tells me that they will show volley ball at 7 and campus eats at 8. unrelated, I sure hope that the University is lining up buses to take a lot of AK Rowdies down to Columbus. Akron needs to have a lot of fans in Columbus for this game. Soccer in Ohio......belongs to the zips. Fan support needed to help the hard working players get a big win over the Buckeyes

preseason number 3 Pitts comes to CubCadet Field on Labor Day to start off a huge week (pre-season number 2 Indiana on Friday) https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-national-top-100/men Pitt started their season with a 7-0 win over Duquesne. As BigZipGuy shared with us, Pitt lost to West Virginia On Friday night, Pitt beat Lehigh 2-1 as you can see in the link above, top drawer soccer thinks that Pitt has 3 of the best 7 players in college soccer. Midfielders Veljko Petkovic and Valentin Noel are the 2 guys that Akron will have to stop Monday night. Pitt also has a defender that was selected for pre season All American team

The amazing thing about Creighton’s win over number 1 Indiana is that Creighton came into tonight with a 1-2 record Creighton lost 2-1 to Tulsa in their last match, Creighton lost 4-0 to St. Louis

Nick Scott goal was incredible. tremendous angled shot.

Robert Morris lost 2-0 in their season opener to a very good West Virginia team. Big zip guy shared in another topic that WVU knocked off Pitt last weekend. In their 2nd game, Robert Morris lost 3-2 in 2 overtimes at Duquesne. Go, Zips !!!

We indeed have seen great depth from this team in the first 2 games. Depth will be even better when Carlo Ritaccio and Sam Tojaga are healthy. I really like the mix of the guys upfront...Kingsford, Clapier, Pacheco, Shokalook and Malik Henry. Even though the zips did not have any shots in the first half, Malik Henry had several good runs on the right side and he made some good crosses. Shots can sometimes be a misleading measure of the game. At the start of the 2nd half, Johnny Fitzgerald had a great run toward the left baseline and made a super cross that just missed the foot of Ryan Kingsford. Does not show up in the stats but the Spartans knew that they dodged a bullet and it was a great individual effort by Fitz.

This soccer coaches poll.....only reflects games thru Sunday. The zips opening game against Wright State obviously impressed the coaches that vote in this poll. https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/

that is a great win that will help the MAC RPI. BGSU and W. Mich are off to slow starts. Zips and W. VA are doing their part to make the MAC look good.

I will let fknbuflobo provide his analysis. Shokalook came in and was very active and made several good runs into the box. That opened up the sides for Pacheco and Clapier. AS the game got later, the strength and physicality of Pacheco and Clapier ....seemed to wear down the spartan defenders. Kauzlaric and Samu were better in the midfield late in the 2nd half. When Shokalook came in , they had Clapier, Pacheco and Kingsford all in the game. Shokalook was the up front forward and Kingsford kind of moved to an upfront midfield position.

Will Portman was great against Wright State. Will P. did not have a good game tonight passing ...and did not do as well on defense. Will got a yellow card in the first half and he was a little tentative after that. Credit to Coach Embick for making the change to Tobias Bak..

my man of the match is Diogo Pacheco.....2 assists zips score at 89:35 to break Sparty's heart.... I know I am biased....but the zips got homered tonight on foul calls....20 fouls to 9 passing was not as sharp tonight......but the zips were tested big time and got a huge win on the road. Tobias Bak came in during the 2nd half....and did a great job at right back

Tremendous, gutty win by the zips tremendous fight...tremendous comeback

https://gozips.com/news/2021/8/29/mens-soccer-akron-travels-to-battle-michigan-state.aspx

https://www.mlssoccer.com/competitions/mls-regular-season/2021/matches/skcvscol-08-28-2021/ JLew with a goal

Is it too early to get excited about the next game? Sparty knocked off Cleveland State last night https://msuspartans.com/news/2021/8/26/mens-soccer-spartans-open-2021-season-with-2-1-victory-for-msu-over-cleveland-state.aspx article above...says that the game will be on big ten plus zips website says that the game will be on big ten plus.. Does anyone know if a subscription to ESPN+ gives you access to big ten plus?

Beacon Journal photo gallery - 13 photos https://www.beaconjournal.com/picture-gallery/sports/2021/08/27/zips-mens-soccer-defeats-wright-state-7-1/5610918001/

Love to see the new athletic director tweeting about soccer and the student fans

Wright State will be a high quality opponent in the season opener. Wright State had an excellent team in 2019. Wright State won the Horizon League tournament in 2019. In the first round of the 2019 NCAA, Wright State defeated Notre Dame (of the ACC) 3-2 in the 2nd round, Wright State had to travel to Ann Arbor to face number 13 seed Michigan. After 2 overtimes., Michigan and Wright State had played to a scoreless draw. Michigan ended up advancing on penalty kicks. Go, Zips !!!