2018 D1 Women's Soccer Talk!!

soccer661 said:
I believe UCLA is missing Mace and Fleming this weekend & Stanford missing Davidson-- all due to National Team duties...
Now injuries are another story--lots of them it seems with quite a few teams from what I am hearing... :(
Click to expand...
Injuries suck.
 
outside! said:
I only watched the second half of the UCLA vs Penn State game, and I thought the half was closer than the score. Penn had some good spells of possession and made more chances than I expected. I don't know if any of UCLA's missing players will be in FL, but it should be a great game. Having spent a great deal of time there, I detest Florida, so you know who I am pulling for.

Fullerton's home field advantage may help them against 22 ranked Auburn, but they better play their A game. I will be there but with no drummer this time.
Click to expand...

UCLA sucks and just gets lucky. None of their players are any good. They are all basically just bookworms. Hand Stanford the national title. Nothing to see here.
 
MakeAPlay said:
UCLA sucks and just gets lucky. None of their players are any good. They are all basically just bookworms. Hand Stanford the national title. Nothing to see here.
Click to expand...
The same could be said about California. No reason to live here, move along.

I did watch the first half of the Stanford BYU game late last night. BYU had a good spell in the middle of the half. There high pressure allowed them to control the midfield and create several good chances. Macario's goal was sweet, and if the half would have been 2 seconds longer she probably would have had another. The coverage was a bit funny at the beginning of the game with the camera crew and announcers not on the same page. While the announcers talked about various players, the camera crew mostly focused on Macario.
 
gkrent said:
Florida Vs. UCLA will be verrrry interesting!!!

This weeks picks are all too obvious. I'm about the same as MAP except I'm gonna give Fullerton the nod over Auburn. Here's a few more forum favorites (winners in pink, ties in italics):

8/30 Thursday

Cal Poly (0-2-1) vs. San Jose St. (0-2-0)
Cal St. Northridge (1-1-1) vs. UNLV (2-1-1)
James Madison (1-3-0) vs. Penn St. (2-1-0)
Miami (FL) (3-1-0) vs. Texas Rio Grande Valley (2-2-0)
#Portland (2-1-0) vs. Michigan St. (3-0-0)
Rhode Island (0-3-0) vs. Wagner (0-3-0)
St. Mary's (Cal.) (2-2-0) vs. Hawaii (1-1-0)
TCU (3-0-1) vs. Pittsburgh (3-0-1)
Texas (2-0-1) vs. Long Beach St. (3-1-0)
Wake Forest (1-1-1) vs. Michigan (3-1-0)
Washington (2-1-0) vs. Wisconsin (2-1-0)
Click to expand...

OMG I only got *two* right for Thursday! I am sucking at this lately!! Thank goodness I'm not in the Sports Book making these calls!
 
gkrent said:
OMG I only got *two* right for Thursday! I am sucking at this lately!! Thank goodness I'm not in the Sports Book making these calls!
Click to expand...
If you randomly guessed you should have got close to 50%. Maybe you should try drinking before making predictions next time? Not that I would do any better. Maybe you will only get a few wrong for today's game and bring your average near to 50%.
 
outside! said:
The same could be said about California. No reason to live here, move along.

I did watch the first half of the Stanford BYU game late last night. BYU had a good spell in the middle of the half. There high pressure allowed them to control the midfield and create several good chances. Macario's goal was sweet, and if the half would have been 2 seconds longer she probably would have had another. The coverage was a bit funny at the beginning of the game with the camera crew and announcers not on the same page. While the announcers talked about various players, the camera crew mostly focused on Macario.
Click to expand...
I watched the BYU/Stanford game as well. I was very impressed BYU held it closer than the 2-0 would infer. The production is usually really good. Just a beautiful setting and great fans. The announcer for the first half was referring to Kiki Pickett as Prickett and Cat Macario as Scicario a few times. I'll cut them slack as it was their first home game of the year.
Now if you though that was bad, just try to watch the Washington/Wisconson game with volume. The two Aussie girls announcing is nails on a chalkboard. Yelling into the microphones, repeating the same play by play over ad-nauseum and being just absolute homers was brutal
 
surfrider said:
I watched the BYU/Stanford game as well. I was very impressed BYU held it closer than the 2-0 would infer. The production is usually really good. Just a beautiful setting and great fans. The announcer for the first half was referring to Kiki Pickett as Prickett and Cat Macario as Scicario a few times. I'll cut them slack as it was their first home game of the year.
Now if you though that was bad, just try to watch the Washington/Wisconson game with volume. The two Aussie girls announcing is nails on a chalkboard. Yelling into the microphones, repeating the same play by play over ad-nauseum and being just absolute homers was brutal
Click to expand...

They were pretty funny if you turned the volume down. I loved how they ran back from the Chick FIL-A tent at halftime and were clearly out of breath. I thought that the BYU homerism was much worse. Anything is better than Arizona’s livestream and their inane crowd noise that you hear.
 
BYU had an interesting game plan vs Stanford. Basically the equivalent of full court press in basketball. Without Davidson or Boissiere to settle things down it nearly worked. I saw a lot of panicking in the back/midfield that lead to unnecessary turnovers. Very un-Stanford like. If BYU could have finished even one of their great chances in the first 30 minutes this would have been a completely different game. They could have settled back into defensive mode and tried to hold on. Macario's great first half strike was a killer. BYU had expended all that energy and had nothing to show for it. They were able to pick things up again for part of the second half, but it was really over after that first goal.

This game makes me *much* more worried about the match up with UCLA. UCLA's bench is significantly deeper than BYU's and they could pressure us the whole game if they want to (not to mention that Fleming will cause even our best midfielders fits). And they have the finishers to make the goals that BYU missed. Looks like Macario's still nursing an injury too. Strange how a 2-0 win against a decent team can make you worry.
 
Needless anxiety.

Just take it to the left back for the score. Last two championship matches proves my point.
 
SocalPapa said:
BYU had an interesting game plan vs Stanford. Basically the equivalent of full court press in basketball. Without Davidson or Boissiere to settle things down it nearly worked. I saw a lot of panicking in the back/midfield that lead to unnecessary turnovers. Very un-Stanford like. If BYU could have finished even one of their great chances in the first 30 minutes this would have been a completely different game. They could have settled back into defensive mode and tried to hold on. Macario's great first half strike was a killer. BYU had expended all that energy and had nothing to show for it. They were able to pick things up again for part of the second half, but it was really over after that first goal.

This game makes me *much* more worried about the match up with UCLA. UCLA's bench is significantly deeper than BYU's and they could pressure us the whole game if they want to (not to mention that Fleming will cause even our best midfielders fits). And they have the finishers to make the goals that BYU missed. Looks like Macario's still nursing an injury too. Strange how a 2-0 win against a decent team can make you worry.
Click to expand...

I wouldn’t worry about UCLA because they suck. Nothing to see here.
 
Gawd....that was some ugly soccer.

a68.jpg
 
MakeAPlay said:
She is getting there. Florida was game tonight.
Click to expand...

Serious comment MAP:
Is this the same Florida that lost to Oklahoma State and Ohio State at home? I mean did they get some players back or something?

I think UCLA wasted the first half and you can't do that on the road missing key players and with a target on your back.
 
Swoosh said:
Serious comment MAP:
Is this the same Florida that lost to Oklahoma State and Ohio State at home? I mean did they get some players back or something?

I think UCLA wasted the first half and you can't do that on the road missing key players and with a target on your back.
Click to expand...

Florida is one of those talented teams that plays to their competition. Underestimate them at your own peril. They actually are missing their striker Rose. The Bruins had plenty of chances as they outshot them 18/5 and 8/1 on goal. You have to understand that they are playing without two All Americans so other players are slowly figuring out how to fill in those roles.

Truth be told although I am upset that they didn’t win I truly believe that they are going to be much better come later in the season because of this stretch of games without such key players. The players that we have are more than enough to beat any team so come late season after CONCACAAF qualifying right before the last 4 or 5 PAC 12 games they should be at full strength ready to make a push for Cary.

I’m going to watch the last 90 of the $C Vs Florida State game. Serious question. Were you satisfied with a draw since the stats say that $C was massively outplayed or is this a case of the stats being deceptive? From what I saw in the first half $C was getting seriously outpossessed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top