Wow, where do I start,.....yes officials put their finger print on the game, an official should never contribute in determining the outcome of the game. Something has to change, its one thing to focus on defense and use a defensive approach, but it doesn't matter if you keep the other team from scoring if it gets in the way of scoring yourself, especially if that approach fails and you fall behind and then don't score. The lack of offense does not appear to be on the team, there were numerous times where Rutgers regained possession and looked for Ali (and perhaps that's too predictable) she receives a ball and literally has a 1 v 5 because everyone is back on defense and cannot recover in time, by the time they do, and "they" means all of the mids and forwards, they are just gassed. Unfortunately, I agree with comments on Nneka, she has strengths but if you aren't going to use them (keeping her high and simply sending balls over the defense for her to run on to limit touches) then your going to potentially pay with turn overs, poor decisions, and weak runs. LaPlant was open numerous times making good runs through and in behind the defense and instead we settle for VERY low percentage shots from 25 out rather than using those dynamic runs, the best goal of the season was against the highest ranked team on a through ball, Tennessee goal, its there quite often and if it doesn't result in a goal perhaps it will result in an assist, Fordham game. The mid field is struggling mightily, perhaps that's also why the forwards are so far back, too help? still not sure of the thought process here, I have been trying to watch a lot off soccer to see if any other teams at any level rely on their forwards to play both ways so much, I can't find it, and obviously up until recently its kept Rutgers one of the top defensive teams in the Country. But, I don't think the forwards should have to defend back to the 18 on every opposing teams possession! Not only is it exhausting it is absolutely killing the offense. The offense is always better when then other teams defense isn't in the attack because our forwards defend less. There has to be a way to get the same defensive effectiveness and not debilitate your offense. R looks like a 4-5-1 playing a 4-3-3 but without the 5 in the mid......., how about a 4-4-2 with Amirah at attacking mid? she gets a lot of touches and is strong on the ball, she would just need to adopt a mind set, receive, pass, move as opposed to receive and dribble. Offensively to me Nneka and Ali were non existent, I agree with rudad, LaPlant had some good moments, off the ball movement, missed them......the team has to find a way to push numbers forward, quickly, attack, get a couple goals then go to a more defensive scheme. You have to score to win.