At St. Louis - Saturday September 12

[TennZip]

https://slubillikens.com/news/2026/9/11/mens-soccer-msoc-preview-bills-host-no-14-akron-saturday-night.aspx

 

The Billikens and Zips are meeting for the 16th time. SLU holds a 9-5-1 advantage in the series, which dates back to 1960. Prior to the Billikens' win in the NCAA quarterfinals last year, Akron had gone unbeaten over the series' previous five matches (4-0-1).

 

St. Louis is 2-2-1 this year.

 

Season Opening 4-0 home win over Seattle

Billikens led 12-4 in shots ; 8-2 in SOG, 6-1 in corner kicks

 

In their next home game. St. Louis lost 4-0 to SMU

attendance of 1,233

Mustangs led 19-5 in Shots ; 5-1 in SOG ; 6-2 in corner kicks

 

at Notre Dame, the Billikens and the Fighting Irish finished at 1-1

UND led 8-5 in shots ; teams were 3-3 in SOG ; Irish led 4-2 in corner kicks

 

2-0 home win over Green Bay

St. L led 13-1 in shots ; 7-1 in SOG and 5-2 in CK's

 

1-0 loss at previously winless SIU-Edwardsville

SLU led 9-7 in shots ; 5-3 in SOG and 6-5 in corner kicks

Edited yesterday at 04:19 PM by TennZip

[Let'sGoZips94]

[WeRise225]

Roman has been frustrating to watch this year.

[Reslife4Life]

What happened with that no goal I don’t have the sound on

[Zips1991]

1 minute ago, Reslife4Life said:

What happened with that no goal I don’t have the sound on

I think they ruled that they illegally knocked it out of the goalkeeper's hands. But it wasn't really clear. 

[TennZip]

Zips are very lucky to avoid second yellow.

 

get Braxton in the game as outside back

[zipsrule]

GOOOOOOAAAAL!  2-1 Zips!

[Zips1991]

SAVED!!

[Reslife4Life]

What a save! What a win!

[Let'sGoZips94]

I was at the Thomas Rhett concert and didn't catch the game. Need a rundown on what took place please - seems like a crazy game.

[TennZip]

 

[TennZip]

The Zips made good use of their bench tonight.

 

On the offensive side, I want to salute FaFa (Farrell Ngongang) and Noa Testa.    

 

FaFa hustle and great pass resulted in a fine goal by Noa Testa.

 

Noa Testa was very active and quick and he created a lot of offense for the Zips.

 

However, my unsung hero for the night is freshman Cole Perez.    He came in at center back and really stabilized the back line.   Great clutch performance by a freshman.

 

Freshman Austin Thum also came in and played some very good minutes in place of Matt Dreas.

 

The coaching staff deserves credit for recognizing that some key veterans were not having effective nights.....and the coaching staff wisely brought in Cole, FaFa, Noa, Braxton , Leo , Austin and others.   This win would not have been possible without great contributions from freshmen and sophomores.

[Let'sGoZips94]

I got the gist. Holy crap.

[UAZipster0305]

Solid road win! Awesome to avenge last year's NCAAT loss and to claw another one back in the all-time series.

[Zip_ME87]

I know it wasn’t pretty, but very proud of how this team fights through adversity. Great road win. Happy to be there with a sizable contingent of Zips fans. So much fun to celebrate this win with our team!!!

 

Kudos to Coach Embick for pulling the right strings. Fantastic team effort, victory. 

[fknbuflobo]

SLU 1-2 AKR FT

For the third consecutive match (not counting the WVU no-contest), Zips come from behind to equalize and then go on to score the winner in the waning minutes of the match.
GK Brett Kaminski heroically saved an on-target PK with 0:40 remaining.

Zips display great resiliency, but surely there is no long future to this pattern. Much better to score first in a sport where scoring is so rare. On the other hand, Akron are not flustered by being down a goal.

Coach Embick and Co. should be applauded for utilizing Zips' deep bench over these previous three matches. Over Embick's now long tenure, Akron have averaged about 14 players per match. Without mining the actual data, my guess is around 16 or 17 per match this season. Last night in Saint Louis, Zips employed 19.
This is a welcome change, if not one late in coming.