[Hieronymus]

Sunday's game at Stanford against unranked Pitt wound up a 1-1 tie.  I was hoping someone that saw it could tell us what happened.

Well we got outplayed to be honest. Pitt is better than their unranking, but it wasn’t great game for Stanford. It did take a series of mistakes - Brandt and Harvey combined for a bad turnover deep in the Stanford end and then Pitt scored a rocket off the bottom of the crossbar from 22ish yards out. Bhuta slipped slightly on defense to allow the shot, but it was an even better shot then Wake’s goal against us. Bhuta scored on a corner earlier in the game.

The Team is struggling right now. That’s 2 games in a row without a goal from the run of play. Kitahata is fully in slump mode vs. just a bit off, and Aikey up front hasn’t immediately fixed the problems on offense yet.

We are also now 3 or 4 games into a very altered lineup. Mostly

Kitahata.      Aikey.      Klinger
Kohler. Bhuta.      Jung/harvey
Boamah. Evans.  Emri.  Harrison
                    Craig 

Note that is 4 Frosh starting. Some of this I expect to stick - see some of my earlier comments as to why. But other parts of this feel more experimental. More comments overall after SMU.

[Hieronymus]

Sunday's game at Stanford against unranked Pitt wound up a 1-1 tie.  I was hoping someone that saw it could tell us what happened.

Well we got outplayed to be honest. Pitt is better than their unranking, but it wasn’t great game for Stanford. It did take a series of mistakes - Brandt and Harvey combined for a bad turnover deep in the Stanford end and then Pitt scored a rocket off the bottom of the crossbar from 22ish yards out. Bhuta slipped slightly on defense to allow the shot, but it was an even better shot then Wake’s goal against us. Bhuta scored on a corner earlier in the game.

The Team is struggling right now. That’s 2 games in a row without a goal from the run of play. Kitahata is fully in slump mode vs. just a bit off, and Aikey up front hasn’t immediately fixed the problems on offense yet.

We are also now 3 or 4 games into a very altered lineup. Mostly

Kitahata.      Aikey.      Klinger
Kohler. Bhuta.      Jung/harvey
Boamah. Evans.  Emri.  Harrison
                    Craig 

Note that is 4 Frosh starting. Some of this I expect to stick - see some of my earlier comments as to why. But other parts of this feel more experimental. More comments overall after SMU.