Jump to content

At Northern Illinois - October 29


Recommended Posts

Zips come into this game #14 in RPI   (ratings as of 2:20 eastern time on Oct 29)

.6136

Strength of schedule (SOS)   15

Opponent SOS     43

 

Tonight's Opponent....NIU is 162 in RPI

Chicago State (November 2 opponent) is 203 in RPI   (212 teams in RPI)

final regular season opponent....Western Michigan ....is #41 in RPI

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Northern Illinois scored on a long distance golazo.

NIU had another golazo go off the cross bar

Dobrijevic had a nice shot that the keeper had to knock over the cross bar.

   Zips need to do much better in the 2nd half to get their passes into the box.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 minute ago, zipsrule said:

Maybe this match shouldn't have been this close?  We led in shots (14-3), shots on goal (6-1) and corners (8-3).


It’s soccer. 

  • Like 1
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

zips played god awful soccer for 65 minutes.

At 65 minutes, they started attacking and playing zips soccer.

the first goal was due to tremendous hustle by Ashton Kamdem...followed by a great pass to Shooky

For the first 15 ro 20 minutes of the 2nd half, I do not think that the zips had a shot.

This would have  been an awful loss to lose to a 162 RPI team.

Credit to the players for digging deep.....and finding solutions in the last 25 minutes

 

somewhat related....Western Michigan struggled mightily to defeat Chicago State 2-1 on the road

Chicago scored 6 minutes and had the lead for almost 39 minutes

WMU scored at 44:56

Chicago got red card at 76.

WMU scored at 84 to get 2-1 win.

 

Nothing comes easy in soccer.....

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

early in the afternoon, the zips were #14 in RPI

Penn was ahead of Akron in RPI

Penn lost 3-2 this afternoon to Harvard and dropped below the zips

 

before tonight's game, the zips were #13 in RPI

.6131

strength of schedule (SOS)    16

Opponent SOS                          44

 

after the win, the zips move up to #12 in RPI

.6133

SOS                           19

Opponent SOS          46

  • Like 2
  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...