Look at that non-conference murderers row. If you want to be the best, you gotta beat the best. Let's go Terps!
Little bit of bad luck - incoming recruit George Campbell has signed a Homegrown contract with Atlanta United.
Don't mean to pile on, but I think we may have missed this one. Vinny Lansade left MD and he was one of the most impressive Terps in the spring.
Other departures: Richard Bedats -> Seattle University Luca Levee -> not listed on the current 2019 roster, but can't figure out where he is?
Numerical changes for returning players: Paul Bin -> 7 Justin Gielen -> 9 Eli Crognale -> 10 Numbers for new faces: Ryan Blumberg -> 3 Marques Antoine -> 4 Malcolm Johnston -> 11 Luke Brown -> 13 Louis Spicer -> 14 Jacob Chakroun -> 16 Kenneth Hiro -> 17 Justin Harris -> 20 Isaac Ngobu -> 23 Tej Munshi -> 26 Niklas Neumann -> 36
Thanks, I hope your friend is trustworthy. On page one I posted 7:00 PM for the UNC game, but never saw game times for the other two.
Anyone who associates with me, can't be considered trustworthy... I will be monitoring the twitter right before game time. But, it helps with planning.
MD schedule updates from twitter today and on MD website, Opening match against USF, moved from 8/30 to 8/29 from 7pm to 8pm, respectively. Gtown match moved from Gtown to MD and time moved from 1pm to 7pm. For those following GauchoDan, there are already 6 matches that have moved from 8/30 to 8/29, MD is the 7th. I wouldn't be surprised if additional ones happen.
Just saw this - painful news: "University of Maryland senior forward Paul Bin will miss the 2019 season after tearing the left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) at training Tuesday morning."
As a player's father, I hate to learn these news and more to see it happening while watching a game (fortunately rarely). Paul's senior season is unfortunately finished. Let's hope he can timely recover to play as a red shirt for a further master year. My older son did it after his graduation at Pitt, as his senior year was wrecked by a niggling hip injury. He enjoyed his red shirt year playing for a D2. And now he got an MBA.
Not rare enough from my prospective, last fall my wife and I unfortunately experienced watching our youngest son incur a season ending knee injury on the Patriot League TV. Not sure if a big pond or land mass from NC to PA, matters much, if your not there it can be gut wrenching. Good news, he is back on the pitch fighting for starts and minutes.
MD-Loyola MD drew 2-2 on Saturday. MD went up early in 1H, 1-0 on a powerful shot from Eric Matzelevich. Loyola should have evened it in 1H but Brian Saramago's PK was tipped by MD GK Russell Shealy and then off the post. In the 2H, MD came out with an entire new 11. Loyola stayed steady but started rotating in new players after 15 minutes of the 2H. Loyola looked better (though they weren't played off the pitch in the 1H), perhaps even more organized than MD in the 2H. Loyola scored 2 goals 7 minutes apart midway through 2H to take a 2-1 lead. The first was taken out of the air softly by Josh Fawole and passed it in the goal from 10 yards. The second came from a late run from the midfield by DM Justin Ingram after Loyola played the ball wide and worked the ball to the end line finding Ingram drifting to the midde of the goal. With less than 10 minutes remaining, Justin Gielen finished a blocked cross from 8 yards into the open net. Both teams should be happy with the result. Loyola gained confidence against the national championship, scored a few goals, played well against the 1st team. It good start. MD has some things to improve to run deeply into the NCAAs. Sasho can really nail into the 2nd team on organization, protecting the ball and level of play - nothing like game tape to teach a lesson. MD will be better with the young players (no incoming freshmen in the starting lineup) raising their level. Worst part of the game was the repressive heat. Looking forward to a 7pm match next Saturday against UNC.
Watched this one with my son, and as @JoeSoccerFan mentioned re Loyola on Saturday, the oppressive heat was a factor (and necessitated water breaks). We sat in what little shade there was (@1:00), but things got better as the sun moved and a slight breeze picked up. Just a smattering of fans were in attendance, 50-60 would be my guess. The first half was uneventful (and ended 0-0) with both teams having chances. MD seemed stronger at the outset, but Temple came more and more into the game as the half wore on. Both teams substituted freely - MD more so - and MD started the second half very differently from the first. A revelation to me - though I don't really know the team - but obviously not to others, was #23 Isaac Ngobu, playing at left back. He changed the game with his quickness, anticipating, intercepting passes, combining well. He set up the first goal and was responsible for creating the scramble that led to the second (a PK). Later in the half he apparently overheated and came off. Temple tied the game twice, first on a nice sliding cross from the endline, almost immediately after MD went up 1-0; and later on their own PK - disputed by Sasho (no replays, of course). It did appear that the MD tackle was fair and that the Temple player fell over the prone MD player. It looked likely that the game would end 2-2, as the ball started to bypass midfield more often and the pace of play slowed. The winning goal came on a mistake that I've never seen and will have difficulty describing to those who weren't there. A moderately long high ball came out of the MD defense toward the center circle. A Temple player was closest to it, but it was clear that it would drop over him. Instead of dropping back further or letting the ball go to a teammate, still facing the MD goal, he flung out his leg to the rear, toward his own goal, blindly. What he succeeding in doing was wrong-footing his teammates and putting Matzelevich through on a breakaway. I'm a bit sunburnt today, but I enjoyed watching and would choose watching soccer in the hot sun over a couple of hours meandering through Ikea any day of the week.
https://dbknews.com/2019/08/19/maryland-mens-soccer-big-ten-tournament-ludwig-field/ "Ludwig Field, the home of Maryland men’s soccer, will be the site of the Big Ten tournament’s semifinal and championship matches in November, the conference announced Monday."
Starting XI for today's in-progress UNC match: Shealy; M. di Rosa, St. Martin, Bergmann, B. di Rosa; Richardson, Crognale, Brown; Herve, Matzelevich, Padilla
Listening to the WMUC Sports broadcast and they're reporting that the game against Villanova on 9/16 has been relocated to College Park instead of the Philadelphia Union stadium. Interesting that they wouldn't just move it to Villanova's campus facility.