08-31-2025, 07:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2025, 04:17 AM by Hieronymus.)
First half ends 0:0 vs. UCD in what has been a dreadful game. I can’t remember a single legitimate chance for either team. UCD barely plays soccer, and the result has barely been a soccer game. Stanford has to stop responding to boot ball with more boot ball. Get the ball under control and on the ground and play soccer. Ref is wholly inadequate to the physicality today.
Finishes 1:0:Stanford. Stone with his first career goal on a play that was half persistence and half skill. Both teams played somewhat better in the second half. It at least looked like a soccer game.
- Pymm and Partal looked like Frosh a lot of this game for the first time.
- 33 fouls and one card is Uruguay / Copa America level bullshit. For reference expect a card on average every 7-7.5 fouls. Just embarrassing.
- Crossing to Chow is not useful.
- not a big de Flores fan. He doesn’t get anything done, and missed one while one on one with goalie he needed to score today.
- Zach was basically a punching bag all game.
- the Dylan and Alfonso CB conversion experience is going shockingly well so far.
It’s a win. Moving on.
Finishes 1:0:Stanford. Stone with his first career goal on a play that was half persistence and half skill. Both teams played somewhat better in the second half. It at least looked like a soccer game.
- Pymm and Partal looked like Frosh a lot of this game for the first time.
- 33 fouls and one card is Uruguay / Copa America level bullshit. For reference expect a card on average every 7-7.5 fouls. Just embarrassing.
- Crossing to Chow is not useful.
- not a big de Flores fan. He doesn’t get anything done, and missed one while one on one with goalie he needed to score today.
- Zach was basically a punching bag all game.
- the Dylan and Alfonso CB conversion experience is going shockingly well so far.
It’s a win. Moving on.