#16 Akron hosts #10 West Virginia - Friday August 29

[TennZip]

WEAR WHITE  !!!

 

[csims0917]

University needs a big win after last night. Lets get!

[TennZip]

 

[NYC ZIP]

I’m sorry if this announcer on espn is a student but it’s rough. He just said recuperates the ball. 

Edited Friday at 11:24 PM by NYC ZIP

[csims0917]

Good crowd today! Bleachers are almost full

[TennZip]

34 minutes ago, NYC ZIP said:

I’m sorry if this announcer on espn is a student but it’s rough. He just said recuperates the ball. 

the announcer is just horrible......

several times, he called Tyler Morck.....Tyler Bush

 

That being said, outstanding defensive game plan by the Zips....

outstanding swarming defense.

[Reslife4Life]

Keep creating good chances, just need to work on the finishing 

[NYC ZIP]

Pretty even played match. Ashton was very good.

[TennZip]

Zips played absolutely ferocious defense tonight.

Great game plan, great effort from the players....

Ashton and Matthew Paiva......make a tremendous duo on that side of the field.

Matt Dreas and Jack Sullivan/Tyler Morck....were excellent in ball winning at midfield.

[csims0917]

Not a bad team to draw against. Felt like we were the better team slightly. I think Mitch would hold down the fort long for us to win in OT if it happened. Onto the next! 

[Let'sGoZips94]

Zips had chances early with a laser off the upper 90 crossbar and WVU saved a corner header off the line. Was a hard fought, well deserved tie. Onto the next. 

[TennZip]

PDF box score says attendance of 1,773

tough to compete with high school football on Friday night

 

https://gozips.com/documents/2025/8/30/akr-wvu-msoc-box-8-29-25a.pdf

[TennZip]

very well taken corner kick by Akron.....

 

 

[Reslife4Life]

I just went back to watch the replay, holy crap this announcer.....

One minute in, what a quote

"WVU started off hot with a 3-5-2 formation where they defeated in morgantown against manhattan 5-2"

[Zip_ME87]

Good game; good draw.

 

I'd like to see Jack Sullivan get more minutes. I'd also like to see them try the combination of Nathan Ferguson and Remi Agunbiade on the field together. I don't recall seeing that forward combo yet this season. Remi was a beast last night.

 

 

[slowroll]

I've only been able to watch the first half thus far but would agree that this is (so far) a great defensive team. I can imagine that the offense will start to click when coach dials in the right partners and the chemistry catches up.

 

The MOTM for me was the announcer. 

[TennZip]

1 hour ago, slowroll said:

 

 

The MOTM for me was the announcer. 

The soccer ball in last night’s game should be super healthy.  The ball recuperated many, many times in last night’s game.

 

the announcer was laughably very bad.

[zippy-claws]

We were at the match last night and enjoyed the evening, the atmosphere, the crowd and the Rowdies.  I just want to add "Thank you!" to all who post here on the Soccer Forum for being informative, insightful and civil in your posts.  I'm sure all of us wanted to see the Zips pull out a 1-0 win at the end, against a ranked team, but when we didn't you're not "never buying a ticket again!!!!!!"  Over on the "Football" forum they're going nuclear and want to not only fire the coach, the assistant coaches, the AD, the cheerleaders, the band (I know, a little hypocritical of me, I wanted to see Women's coach gone last season, but over there they want to not just fire him, but string him up!) drop football altogether, leave the MAC, and even drop sports altogether, after a loss to a name school.  

 

Thanks for your cool heads....

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[UAZippers]

18 minutes ago, zippy-claws said:

We were at the match last night and enjoyed the evening, the atmosphere, the crowd and the Rowdies.  I just want to add "Thank you!" to all who post here on the Soccer Forum for being informative, insightful and civil in your posts.  I'm sure all of us wanted to see the Zips pull out a 1-0 win at the end, against a ranked team, but when we didn't you're not "never buying a ticket again!!!!!!"  Over on the "Football" forum they're going nuclear and want to not only fire the coach, the assistant coaches, the AD, the cheerleaders, the band (I know, a little hypocritical of me, I wanted to see Women's coach gone last season, but over there they want to not just fire him, but string him up!) drop football altogether, leave the MAC, and even drop sports altogether, after a loss to a name school.  

 

Thanks for your cool heads....

Wyoming is not a "name" school, they are a g5 team that was 3-9 last season  and fans are not freaking out after one game, they are freaking out after well over a decade of pure futility from a program that is funneling money into a pit.

Please do not be disingenuous in your comments. If the football team had put up a tying effort against a ranked team, this whole board would be doing cartwheels of joy. 

[NYC ZIP]

The soccer Zips have a pretty consistent  tradition of success for a pretty long time. The football Zips have been at best not good for a while. Also, ties in soccer are considered ok. 
Go back and look at the posts when the soccer Zips were 1-3-3after losses to IU Indy and Temple last year….. 

I don’t think we need to canabalize Zips fandom. 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by NYC ZIP