B1G Tournament Women's Soccer vs. No. 4 USC
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Are you being facetious? If you're speaking of Tiernan, not a fan. I posted some time ago that she was a dirty player.
I confess.. when I saw Riley pull that Christian Laetner assey move and stomp that girl.. I knew it was a red card and I almost turned the game off. down 1-0, early in 2nd half.. have to play remainder of game with 10. I was ready to give up.. but I kept watching.
I was thinking that goalie Bodner looked skinny and weak and pale and... boy was I wrong about her. She stepped up.. the whole team did. After tying it up still early in 2nd half they went into a defensive shell and it was hard to watch.. all teh little deflections and taking no risks.. so conservative..
I was thinking that goalie Bodner looked skinny and weak and pale and... boy was I wrong about her. She stepped up.. the whole team did. After tying it up still early in 2nd half they went into a defensive shell and it was hard to watch.. all teh little deflections and taking no risks.. so conservative..
Agreed.. I don't watch often.. but, generally, in the past, I saw other teams players marking Riley and roughing her up and I saw Riley's dirty play as payback.
But this? This is a whole other level of crazy/dirty. I saw no rough play by USC.. I saw mostly them taking dives.. I saw some headers over the top (not called) .. but, generally, I don't think anyone on USC would have deserved that. At worst, maybe that USC player was trash-talking..
Yeah.. this was crazy bad foul.
I joked that Bodner didn't look like a D1 goalie.. then while she was having that great 2nd half and OT I commented that I suddenly understood.. Bodner can see the future!
PK time confirmed that.
Undoubtedly, her PK saves were something special. With that said, I think her miraculous saves in the 2nd OT were even better. Without those stops there would have been no shootout.
IMHO, the save of the game...
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Agreed, the only really tough save was the last one in PKs but in the second OT she was unbelievable.
I was being facetious of course just awful I said in a previous post I would not even play her when we play in the NCAA tournament she hurts this team more than she helps
Second time this year she has been suspended that’s not acceptable
Interesting stat:
Ashley Baran has 4 goals during game play when Riley Tiernan is disqualified from playing due to cards. 3 against Nebraska and 1 today.
Baran is a superstar. The “Baran bomb” her shots are like a video game. She has the strongest leg and best aim IMO on the team, needs more minutes.
I think this thread is understating one of the greatest performances by a Rutgers athletics team in history. The team was down 1-0 to the number one seed in the tournament, who only lost one game all season. Early in the second half, our star player was ejected, and unlike football, when a player is rejected THEY ARE NOT REPLACED. Rutgers was facing a situation where they were down by a goal and could only have 10 people on the field for the rest of the game. Facing incredible odds, we actually scored a goal to tie the game, At that point, the strategy was clear. Down one player, who also happens to be your team's superstar, the only way we could win was to play defense for basically the entire second half and go to overtime and just play defense, then go to penalty kicks. That's exactly what we did. During the penalty kicks, Rutgers hit three consecutive goals, and USC had all three of their goals blocked. It was an incredible ending and showed the contrast between a team that was "Jersey tough" and USC. What a great win by the team and a great day for Rutgers!
Great anticipation meant or only had to be a good save. Great play!
∆∆∆∆This! I do not believe I have ever seen better or more appropriate use of capital letters in the entire history of message boards!!!! Congratulations to the women of Rutgers Soccer for a performance for the ages...you have made your school proud!!!! GO RU!!!!!!
You’d think we could see video of our PK makes somewhere?
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