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David Egbo and Sammy Tojaga are not in the lineup due to getting their 5th yellow in the last game I have no idea why Carlo is not in the starting lineup

many quotes from SIU-E coach https://www.siuecougars.com/sports/m-soccer/2019-20/releases/20191025yffzqm

article has some quotes from Coach Embick...and also from Mani about Mani's comments....a very knowledgeable zips soccer fan....has been saying all year "You can't score if you don't shoot" Congratulations to Mani and David on their great goals against SIU-E and Michigan State https://www.beaconjournal.com/sports/20191025/university-of-akron-mens-soccer-zips-blank-southern-illinois-edwardsville-3-0

Western Michigan tied it at 2-2 at 65 minutes but NIU scored at 76 and held on for 3-2 win Akron is now the only team in the MAC without a loss

Wow....another goal to make it 3-0 at 89:22 Zips could be in sole possession of first place in the league after tonight Northern Illinois leads Western Michigan 2-1 on their home field at half time If NIU holds on for win, top 4 in league would be: Akron 2-0-1 2. NIU 2-1 2. SIU-E 2-1 4. WMU 1-1-1 if NIU holds on, that will make the Nov. 2 game against NIU....the biggest game of the year..... great win tonight....by the Zips..... they played without Marco Milanese.....and they still got a clean sheet way to go, ZIPS

Mr. Egbo is a goal scorer !!!

Tor at GK tonight

Jared uses toughness and resiliency to describe this group He also talks about Skye's health in the video https://gozips.com/news/2019/10/24/mens-soccer-akron-hosts-league-leading-siu-edwardsville-in-key-mac-tilt.aspx

Richie is the lowest paid player on the Toronto roster https://www.kamloopsmatters.com/national-sports/at-different-ends-of-salary-scale-pozuelo-and-laryea-make-mark-with-toronto-fc-1766777

Richie has been very humble when they speak with him I am proud of this young man and very happy for him

Richie Laryea has been outstanding for Toronto in their 2 playoff games. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/10/24/richie-laryea-emerging-toronto-fcs-needed-supersub

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SIU-E is coached by Cale Wasserman This is his first year he had been the assistant at Michigan State for 4 years before their coach has an impressive coaching background. Was head coach at Div. 2 school and took them to the national finals in 2012. You can read more about his background below (if interested) https://www.siuecougars.com/sports/m-soccer/coaches/Cale_Wassermann?view=bio SIU-E has a current record of 8-3-2 they have scored 24 goals in 13 games (1.85 per game) in preseason, they had a high quality 3 -2 win over a top 25 team....Kentucky SIU-E started their regular season with a 0-0 tie at Michigan State 4-3 home win over Evansville 2-1 home loss to St. Louis (in 2 overtimes) 2-1 home win over Butler (in 2 OT's) 4-3 OT loss at Oral Roberts 1-0 win over the UM-Kansas City Roos 2-0 home win over Central Arkansas 1-0 home win over Western Illinois 3-0 home win over Valparaiso 2-1 road win over Northern Illinois 2-2 tie at Wisconsin 2-0 home win over Bowling Green trivia for you....I could not think of the team nickname for SIU-E they are the cougars their best player(according to top drawer soccer) is midfielder Jorge Gonzalez...5'11 senior from Valencia, Spain top drawer soccer has him ranked as the 50th best player in the country -midseason (ranking is for soph, jr and senior) Carlo is the highest ranked Akron player at #67 Gonzalez has 9 goals and 4 assists (wears #10) they have several guys with 2 goals Lachlan McLean has 4 goals for SIU-E (6'0 senior forward from Australia) Jorgen Petterson leads them with 5 assists (6'0 senior midfielder from Norway)

a good friend (who works during the day ? ) knows that I am retired....and asked me politely ?...to start this topic. I will do Current MAC standings and MAC schedule in this post. Will do SIU-E results in 2nd post Current MAC Standings 1. Southern Illinois Univ-Edwardsville (SIU-E) 2-0-0 2. Akron and Western Michigan 1-0-1 4. Northern Illinois 1-1-0 5. BGSU and W. Virginia 0-2-0 MAC Schedule this week Friday SIU-E at Akron 7 eastern WMU at NIU 8 eastern Saturday WVU at BGSU 5 eastern

comments from WMU coach in article and in video In the video, their coach said that they could have been down 3 at halftime https://wmubroncos.com/news/2019/10/20/mens-soccer-broncos-and-zips-finish-in-a-1-1-draw.aspx

Thanks, AyYo...for letting us know about the twitter update they got that posted quickly

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

will have to miss the SIU-E game as well

Carlo Ritaccio is not in the lineup today

SIU-Edwardsville.......looks like they might be 2-0 in the MAC after tonight they lead BGSU 2-0 at 78:45 in a non-MAC game of interest...Michigan State defeated Ohio State 3-1

Toronto FC and DC United 1-1 after 90 Richie Laryea scores a goal in OT to make it 2-1

http://www.americansoccernow.com/articles/a-look-at-the-u-23-pool-after-the-october-camp-in-miami ASN has heard that the top field performers in camp were Jonathan Lewis, Richard Ledezma, and Hassani Dotson.

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

another disaster for the USMNT but I am happy that Richie Laryea played well for Canada https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/10/15/usa-canada-nations-league-video-highlights-pulisic-mckennie Canada looked up for the match from the start, with Richie Laryea surging forward from his right back position and delivering a dangerous cross in the first minute, only for Tim Ream to head it to safety with a diving clearance. The second half began with more of the same, and David failed to score on another great chance. It was created down the right, where Laryea got forward and crossed for David's near-post run. The 19-year-old forward turned his chance wide of the post, though, keeping the game scoreless in the 50th minute.