[OCcardinal]

No one has mentioned yet that we defeated Oregon (at Oregon) 1-0 last night, and will move on to Oregon State at noon on Sunday. 

I found it something of a frustrating win to watch--one of those things about soccer-- in that we completely dominated Oregon, getting off 32 shots to their 3 shots, but only managed to get 1/32 into the nets.  Furthermore, this happened on our very first shot, by Kostmayer at the 6 minute mark, meaning that for the next 84 minutes we were kicking into a brick wall.  If there were a time-of-possession stat we probably would have dominated 5:1.  Our shooting accuracy was not great, with 9/32 shots on goal, but a couple of those 9 were very close--one bouncing off the bar, another forcing a really really good save.  Fortunately, unlike UCLA, we never turtled but kept going for the 2nd goal.  Regardless, it is another win, and yet more evidence that Kostmayer is special.

Gotta give Oregon credit.  They were not giving us easy shots (the shots-on-goal differential was only 9-2).  Oregon seems to have flipped a switch on defense lately. Including last night, they have allowed only 2 goals in their past 4 conference games (same as Stanford).

[OCcardinal]

No one has mentioned yet that we defeated Oregon (at Oregon) 1-0 last night, and will move on to Oregon State at noon on Sunday. 

I found it something of a frustrating win to watch--one of those things about soccer-- in that we completely dominated Oregon, getting off 32 shots to their 3 shots, but only managed to get 1/32 into the nets.  Furthermore, this happened on our very first shot, by Kostmayer at the 6 minute mark, meaning that for the next 84 minutes we were kicking into a brick wall.  If there were a time-of-possession stat we probably would have dominated 5:1.  Our shooting accuracy was not great, with 9/32 shots on goal, but a couple of those 9 were very close--one bouncing off the bar, another forcing a really really good save.  Fortunately, unlike UCLA, we never turtled but kept going for the 2nd goal.  Regardless, it is another win, and yet more evidence that Kostmayer is special.

Gotta give Oregon credit.  They were not giving us easy shots (the shots-on-goal differential was only 9-2).  Oregon seems to have flipped a switch on defense lately. Including last night, they have allowed only 2 goals in their past 4 conference games (same as Stanford).