Soccer: 9/2 SIU Edwardsville

[GoZips88]

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"About SIU Edwardsville

• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) began its season by winning the Hokies Invitational last weekend. In doing so, the Cougars defeated host Virginia Tech, 3-1, and upset No. 19 James Madison, 1-0.

• Forward Jared Tejada was named tournament MVP after scoring the game-winning goals in both matches.

• SIUE was 8-8-4 overall in 2011, including a 1-4-1 mark in conference play.

SIU Edwardsville Series Notes

• The Zips and Cougars will be facing each other for the 14th time overall and the first time since the 1969 season.

• Akron will be searching for its first win against SIUE after having gone 0-12-1 in the schools' previous 13 meetings."

[bobbyake]

The stream for the game requires a $4.99 payment http://www.gocreighton.com/liveEvents/live...;db_oem_id=1000

[bigzipguy]

For those of you who wish to to just follow by live sts, I went to the SIU website and into the stats from there, was having trouble just getting stats from Creighton website.

[bigzipguy]

Zips win 2-1. Disturbing stat: 17 fouls on Akron, 7 on SIUE??????

[UADavid]

Zips defeat SIUE 2-1.

[GoZipsGoZips]

Zips win 2-1. Disturbing stat: 17 fouls on Akron, 7 on SIUE??????

More disturbing... Where's the offense?

But I am confident that it's coming.

[Ando]

here's a thing I wrote

http://akronsportsnow.com/ameritas-classic...-tactics-notes/

[fknbuflobo]

here's a thing I wrote

http://akronsportsnow.com/ameritas-classic...-tactics-notes/

I absolutely love this analysis, Andy. As far as I am concerned, you can discuss formation, tactics, and strategy every match.

I also agree with your comparison of Koroma to Mattocks. Darren is a truly rare commodity; a pure finisher, and not much else. Alfred Koroma is closer to Teal Bunbury, playing the complete game.

I must say, Koroma's goal vs. Creighton was a beauty.

[Ando]

yeah, definitely different types of forwards

and by "more complete," I want to stress, I don't necessarily mean "better." There's definitely more to Darren's game than often met the eye - He was fast, but so are a lot of other guys. I feel his movement, on top of being quick, was always pretty intelligent as well. He stretched a lot of defenders in his time here by moving around, checking back occasionally, etc.

But I think, in terms of on-ball ability, Koroma has the potential to do things Darren probably wasn't technically proficient enough to pull off

[fknbuflobo]

yeah, definitely different types of forwards

and by "more complete," I want to stress, I don't necessarily mean "better." There's definitely more to Darren's game than often met the eye - He was fast, but so are a lot of other guys. I feel his movement, on top of being quick, was always pretty intelligent as well. He stretched a lot of defenders in his time here by moving around, checking back occasionally, etc.

But I think, in terms of on-ball ability, Koroma has the potential to do things Darren probably wasn't technically proficient enough to pull off

I agree with everything above.