#1 UCLA 1-2 Virginia %2 33' 0-1 Makenzy Doniak shot deflects to 15m center, DF #16 Emily Sonnett shoots past GK Rowland 71' 0-2 MF #6 Morgan Brian, from box top 74' 1-2 Sarah Killion to Taylor Smith to DF #3 Caprice Dydasco wide left, cross/shot off right post Mewis in tears, crouched behind the post-match huddle, not in the ring. Camera eventually pans back far enough to show both huddles. I did indeed miss everything; turned on the stream just in time for the handshakes.
%1 Stanford - Florida %2 04' 1-0 Ubogagu collects 1-v-2 at 20m mid-left, out-works 2 with a bulldog drive down to box left. Stutter-and-go, 1-v-3 but she gets to endline with ball in wheelhouse, fires a harrrrd cross through the grass to Uhl open at 6m right post. One-touch volley floats past Taylor Burke, into back right 1/4 high. 10' 1-1 Florida fk at 24m wide right. #20 Christen Westphal dummies over, #13 Annie Speese bends it left instep to 8m right post. Stanford DF with braided ponytail(?) jumps up-and-back, flick-heads across mouth, drops into back left low. GK Campbell had no chance after that bounce.
28' 1-1 Stanford drives another low cross through 8m, just misses the Uhl interception point at 1/3 right. Florida advances to circle back, but Stanford wins a 1-v-1. Mostly Stanford possession since then. Florida seems content to harass and congest ... 37' 1-1 Florida excellent possession, probing the large arc. One cross into a scrum at 15m center, bounces out and Florida retains. Eventually, backpass to GK, longball up left misses? 39' 1-1 Stanford works up wide right, through-ball from 25m wide right to 14m mid-right -- offside. 41' 1-1 Stanford down box left, cross over mouth, nobody there.
45' 1-1 Ubogagu collects coming backward to halfway box right, lays off. One-touch left instep diagonal longball, bounces over box top mid-right and the LB must turn and chase. Hoofed into touch to avoid a tricky 1-v-1 out of nothing. 45' 1-1 Ubogagu closed down at 23m mid-left. Chases back and taps back, somebody taps a lackadaisical square ball rightward for Sullivan from 27m -- wistful shot blocked to circle back. HT 1-1. Florida short-pass up centerline and work the big arc, without fruit. Stanford can run, or short pass, or chip long.
49' 1-1 Uhl bursts down mid-left, chased by #15 Tessa Andujar(?) to 4m. Right forearm in the left back, push sends Uhl down -- but offside anyways, before any contact. 51' 1-1 #24 Doll 1-v-1 at 12m mid-right, tripped down -- no call. 52' 1-1 Uhl outraces 2 to 6-top left, GK Burke charges and sprawls -- shot blocked, ball sits. Defender clears it hard under Ubogagu's hop.
57' 1-1 Stanford gets overrun from behind at 22m mid-left. Stanford quick restart befuddles the ref and camera crew, Uhl shoots off-screen -- blocked over endline left. Stanford left corner, Florida heads clear. Stanford chips a couple to Burke wide of goal. 61' 1-1 Royal scrum at Stanford's 5m left post -- four or five players down, shots bouncing off their backs. Campbell finds the ball ... 61' 1-1 Ubogagu spins down to 5m mid-left, cross blocked over. Left corner cleared.
63' 1-1 Ubogagu chips from box top wide left to Uhl drifting between 2 at 14m right post. Uhl clangs-and-chases to 6-top right, defender falls on ball and traps it under her. Burke blocks a shot, that defender clears. LaBonta shoots from 20m mid-left, hooks way wide left. 64' 1-1 Ubogagu out-accelerates 1-v-2 down mid-left to 5m, shoots hard rising across mouth, too high. She consistently is getting past Florida's right flank ...
68(?)' 1-1 Florida taps a short diagonal pass from box top mid-right to RB(?) #1 Lauren Silver overlapping wide-open through box top right. Stanford brave/wtf slide-tackle from behind, Silver face-plants at 9m mid-right. No call, all ball? No protest. 69' 1-1 Two players collide at Stanford's box top mid-right. Foul on Florida.
74' 1-1 Stanford big pressure: two corners, then Romine crosses to Mariah Lee, Burke dives flat left and blocks it wide left. 75' 2-1 Stanford right corner, Sullivan to #22 Kendall Romine at ~9m left post. Straight header into back left low, beats Burke's horizontal dive. 79' 2-2 Florida right corner, Speese to #19 Havana Solaun's head at 6-top right post, dunked.
80' 2-2 Stanford cross from 7m mid-right to Ubogagu at 14m 6-left. Ubogagu darts past 2 down mid-left to 6-top -- cross/shot blocked over, then a defender undercuts Ubogagu inside-out, rotating her feet up and torso down. No call -- this Stanford stream guy adopts a fatalistic tone Ubogagu down momentarily with knee pain -- knee-to-knee knock, not a twist? Resumes. 82' 2-2 Stanford receive wide-open at 15m mid-right, drive down to 7m, hard square cross poked past spot and Stanford's lane runners overrun it.
85' 2-2 Ubogagu turns at 24m arc right, chips a gentle bend toward Walker-Hartshorn cutting toward 8m left post -- just too hard. High-risk pass try ... 89' 2-2 Stanford right corner, headed 3 times. Stanford chip it back in twice, Uhl heads it high facing away -- dragged down at 7m 6-right! No call Stanford cross from box left to Megan Turner flashing wide-open at 8m center, stoop-header driven down but wide right. AER 2-2.
This is blowing my mind - every time Stanford gets a corner on their right, Florida sends a player out to block/alter the flight of the corner, but she stops at the edge of the box, instead of going to the ten-yard hash mark, where she might actually be able to do something. It's happened like five times, including the second goal. Bizarre. People know there's a live stream, yes? http://pac-12.com/videos/stanford-university
095' 2-2 All Stanford possession. Uhl at box top right, squares to 20m arc right, one-touch forward pass into box for Ubogagu cutting diagonally from arc top center to ~8m 6-right. Ubogagu shoots across body on the run, ball trickles to left post as Burke almost has too much time to overthink her feet -- rolls just wide left. 096' 2-2 Yellow card on Ubogagu. 096' 2-2 Florida high cross from 25m wide left to ~9m center, Savannah Jordan jumps and flicks a back-header to right post low. Campbell dives and catches ball -- they know each other from U20s ... AE1 2-2.
101' 2-2 Romine chips to Ubogagu 1-v-1 at 19m box left. Ubogagu drives down mid-left to 8m, shoots way high. 104' 2-2 All Florida possession since. Doll misses a pass, Stanford rip it away ... cross midfield, lose it. Florida returns to box top, Jordan shoots from ~20m, blocked. #8 Claire Falknor handball at circle top.
108' 2-2 Liedle cuts inside at 21m box left, chips a bend to 6-top right. Uhl drifts behind, drives a header down to center hard -- Burke dives horizontal and right hand cup-saves, ball rolls across mouth at 0.5m. Florida defender wins race, blasts it into row zed. 110' 2-2 Florida keep it around center circle. Stanford right throw-in during the countdown, nothing. AET 2-2. P-K-boo ...
0 | 0 _ _ _ _ #2 Annie Bobbitt, right instep to left post 1/3 high, Campbell saves 1 | 1 _ _ _ _ #22 Kendall Romine, right instep to back left low, Burke missed 0 | 0 0 _ _ _ #13 Annie Speese, left instep to 1/4 left low, Campbell saves 2 | 1 1 _ _ _ #21 Lo'eau LaBonta, right instep to back left low 1 | 0 0 1 _ _ #22 Pamela Begic, right instep into upper right 90, over Campbell 2 | 1 1 0 _ _ #9 Chioma Ubogagu, left instep to 2/5 right 1/3 high, Burke saves left hand 2 | 0 0 1 1 _ #19 Havana Solaun, right instep into right edge 1/2 high (Campbell wrong) 3 | 1 1 0 1 _ #10 Haley Rosen, right instep bounces into back left low (Burke wrong) Bobbitt and Rosen played 0', and subbed in just for one PK each.
3 | 0 0 1 1 1 #1 Lauren Silver, left instep into 1/3 left (Campbell shuffled wrong) 4 | 1 1 0 1 1 GK #1 Jane Campbell herself, stutter-step, rolls right instep into back left low (just past Burke's dive)
i'm not. look. i was a big believer in ucla. but this is what i've been saying all along. this is soccer. ucla could only win this game if they played their best soccer. but they continued their end of the year decline that we saw against pepperdine in their previous game. good game by pepperdine. even better game by virginia. props to them. thats why i'm not a player personnel manager. i thought mewis was going to show better than she did. they all played poorly it seems to me. but i guess it's just one game. no. she did score. but she is directly responsible for the virginia's winning goal. if i remember correctly, she threw in the ball from a dangerous position in ucla's defensive third, and took great care to throw a perfect ball directly in the path of brian who passed it down the right wing and in short order got it back in front of the 18 and deposited it into the back of the net. game. set. match. definitely. or for me the player of the game was swanson. he didn't kick a single ball. but he showed why he has won a world cup. he outcoached cromwell, limiting their speed up the wing, making dydasco and courtnall less effective (sometimes triple teaming them when they got into the attacking zone), and then taking advantage of brian and colaprico's strengths in the middle. killion and alvarado were out played, while mewis was kept as a higher attacker just about all game, and never did much defensively where she could have prevented virginia from bossing the game. virginia played with an edge all game too. they remembered last year. and without their best game, there was no way ucla was going to beat them tonight. again, props to the cavaliers.
This. With Colaprico and Brian able to cover Mewis and Killion, the big key for Virginia would be to shut down Dydasco and Courtnall, specifically Dydasco. So much of the UCLA offense and possession runs through her. Granted, she was still able to score off a crazy angle, but you're right, she did directly throw the ball into Brian and it ended up resulting in a goal. The thing about these two teams and their coaches is that either one could beat each other on any given day. It's a shame they only met in the quarterfinal. Congrats to Virginia and props to UCLA on a great season.
not just a goal, but THE goal. despite ucla's poor play all game, this mistake was the difference maker. without it there may still have been hope for ucla and their fitness nazi coach the longer the game went. tough for me when top teams meet this early. it felt like a final. but this happens all the time, and virginia stepped up. really good game plan by the coach that cromwell didn't seem to respond to all game long. there'll still be good teams in the final. any of the 5 still remaining will be deserved winners, altho I don't believe in penn state, tamu, and stanford as much as I believe in the other 2. but at this stage it's all about who plays well on the day... ...as we saw last night.
Yes, based on the Massey Ratings this was always a bit of an eyebrow-raiser, to bracket these two to face each other in the quarterfinals. The #1 and the #4 teams in the end-of-regular-season Massey Ratings. And two of only four teams that broke the 2000-barrier in my conversion of the ratings into the Albyn Jones scale. I talk a little bit more about the "strength-of-schedule" / "degree of difficulty" assigned to the #1 seeds in the Tournament Bracket thread if anyone's interested.
Aggies up 1-0 at the half. PSU had the better run of play during the middle thirty; the Aggies had the begining and end. A&M: 8 shots, 5 SOG, 3 saves PSU: 11 shots, 3 SOG, 1 corner, 4 saves PSU will have a pretty stiff wind in their faces during the second half.