12-01-2023, 09:36 PM
Soccer is a massively unfair game sometimes. BYU was the better team but, opportunistic finishing, stout defense and some luck with the bad offsides call and 2 posts carried the day. We are a solid team physically, but not that fast overall. And BYU - just wow.
I would very much like to have seen more composure on the ball while we were ahead. We made it very hard on ourselves today. UNC did a better job of getting forward some in a similar situation.
That said, the defending was beyond great today. Wesley and Evans are amazing. Bhuta was almost flawless at RB. The left was scary, but Montoya dropped back so far it was a 541 most of the second half and she plus Brandt just held on together. You Can’t ask for more effort or guts. And overall it is amazing how few cheap goals this team gives up. As others pointed out, in the end BYU had few good looks. A big key was, unlike UnC, we didn’t just let BYU run around the flanks. We also didn’t have any major defensive brain freezes while UNC had several.
On to FSU who is going to present many of the same challenges.
Go Card!
I would very much like to have seen more composure on the ball while we were ahead. We made it very hard on ourselves today. UNC did a better job of getting forward some in a similar situation.
That said, the defending was beyond great today. Wesley and Evans are amazing. Bhuta was almost flawless at RB. The left was scary, but Montoya dropped back so far it was a 541 most of the second half and she plus Brandt just held on together. You Can’t ask for more effort or guts. And overall it is amazing how few cheap goals this team gives up. As others pointed out, in the end BYU had few good looks. A big key was, unlike UnC, we didn’t just let BYU run around the flanks. We also didn’t have any major defensive brain freezes while UNC had several.
On to FSU who is going to present many of the same challenges.
Go Card!