First Tonight’s game which had the same old Coach O’Neill stamp on it the whole way. I said to my daughter 20 minutes in we are playing the same way we play backwards too much we weren’t going for balls as hard as CCSU and that’s a continuation of the Michigan game where we were beaten to almost every 50/50 ball. This team is trained to play not to lose and when you play that way it only takes one good shot to beat you and that is what happened tonight. As an aside Meagan got beaten badly again tonight on the same exact shot to lose the game as she did in the Michigan game and you can’t use the same excuse that people used about the Michigan goal that the sun was in her eyes both times she was off her line and got beaten.
Don’t be fooled by the shot totals while I believe we had 18 to CCSU 7 shots we had only 2 serious scoring opportunities the header in which the goalie made a nice save and Amirah sot off the post although if it was on net the goalie was there.
I am not sure how are girls are trained but there are division 1 girls playing soccer and they seem to not even be able to do the basic soccer 101 things.
Our passing god awful as we are unable to make any connections the girls continually hold onto to the ball too long and miss girls making open runs. As an example tonight Amirah was open in space at least 3 times and not once did we see her and feed her the ball. Brittany was guilty of holding the ball too much tonight.
Shooting our girls never take shots where there momentum is going forward to the goal and they get no power on the shots which happened numerous times tonight and most of the saves tonight were easy saves. They also constantly pass up open shots and insist on dribbling into the middle into traffic most of the time resulting in not even being able to get off their shots.
CORNER KICKS OMG WTF what in gods name were we doing we must have played 5 corner kicks short tonight which resulted in nothing as we didn’t even get the ball in to the box a few times and that’s squarely on the coaches.
Another thing I have discussed ad nauseum is we can’t expect to generate consistent offense if our wings are asked to come back to the 18 and then expect tthembto make 70 yard runs which is impossible and secondly just flat out is exhausting.
So I am sure I am forgetting a few things but this brings us to the state of the program and what are the answers?
Is this all on O’Neill maybe not but since he is the head coach it all falls on him. He may have loyalty to his staff but if they are going to get over the hump than changes need to be made to his staff and like football we need a so called good offensive coordinator!!! He has to change his style as I said above. I am sure there are other things people can add to this discussion but that’s it for tonight
Don’t be fooled by the shot totals while I believe we had 18 to CCSU 7 shots we had only 2 serious scoring opportunities the header in which the goalie made a nice save and Amirah sot off the post although if it was on net the goalie was there.
I am not sure how are girls are trained but there are division 1 girls playing soccer and they seem to not even be able to do the basic soccer 101 things.
Our passing god awful as we are unable to make any connections the girls continually hold onto to the ball too long and miss girls making open runs. As an example tonight Amirah was open in space at least 3 times and not once did we see her and feed her the ball. Brittany was guilty of holding the ball too much tonight.
Shooting our girls never take shots where there momentum is going forward to the goal and they get no power on the shots which happened numerous times tonight and most of the saves tonight were easy saves. They also constantly pass up open shots and insist on dribbling into the middle into traffic most of the time resulting in not even being able to get off their shots.
CORNER KICKS OMG WTF what in gods name were we doing we must have played 5 corner kicks short tonight which resulted in nothing as we didn’t even get the ball in to the box a few times and that’s squarely on the coaches.
Another thing I have discussed ad nauseum is we can’t expect to generate consistent offense if our wings are asked to come back to the 18 and then expect tthembto make 70 yard runs which is impossible and secondly just flat out is exhausting.
So I am sure I am forgetting a few things but this brings us to the state of the program and what are the answers?
Is this all on O’Neill maybe not but since he is the head coach it all falls on him. He may have loyalty to his staff but if they are going to get over the hump than changes need to be made to his staff and like football we need a so called good offensive coordinator!!! He has to change his style as I said above. I am sure there are other things people can add to this discussion but that’s it for tonight
