2018 Texas Women's Soccer

[Js1 85,574]

Ha we fucked OU at the last second 2 weeks in a row 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Texas is going to be insanely good in central midfield next year with Grosso and Stroup. 

Stroup is really good at finding pockets of space in the midfield. Dollas is a perfect fit in that defensive central midfield role but Stroup and Grosso are just different level players from a technical perspective. 

Edited October 13, 2018 by texasstrong12

[pacman 7,371]

No orange tower...bummed

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Grosso is getting early minutes in the CONCACAF semis

[Machinator 32,099]

 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Kelly said we played our best soccer on Friday night and I don't disagree. She's right we kept possession, had great spacing, and looked really technical against OU. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

The Canadians are back. 

 

Edited October 19, 2018 by texasstrong12

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Yay theyre back!

[Pato del Muerto 52,600]

It’s aboot time, eh. 

[Js1 85,574]

2 home games to get acclimated with the team again (Kansas team weekend) before @ Tech.  Then we can make a conference tournament run with our full team.  If we can finish 6-2-1 we would probably finish 3rd

[texasstrong12 4,668]

It will be interesting to see the minutes distribution tonight because even though the Canadians are back they probably aren't fresh. 

They will likely be on a minutes restriction tonight. 

 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Grosso and Regan back in the starting lineup. Kansas is a quality squad. This will be another battle as all these Big 12 matches are. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Hand ball called. PK for Kansas. Of course. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Off the cross bar on the PK. We survived. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Regan draws the PK. Finish this Texas. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Dollas finishes the PK. 1-0 Texas. 

Glad to have the Canadians back. Regan created the PK opportunity. She's so good at running at players on the wing. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Regan is giving Kansas all types of issues on the right wing. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

1-0 Texas at the half. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Hintzen has some type of injury. Her entire leg is wrapped up. Looks like her night is done. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Great ball from Adams and Berg finishes with 5 minutes to play. 2-0 Texas. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

We still haven't lost when we've had both the Canadians. 

Edited October 20, 2018 by texasstrong12

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Such a beautiful assist and finish

[texasstrong12 4,668]

That's a quality resume win. Kansas was #25 in RPI coming into tonight. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

The Big 12 tournament is going to be a bloodbath. The two bottom feeders will stay at home (ISU and K-State) which means 7/8 teams in the Big 12 tournament are currently being projected as NCAA tournament teams. OU isn't bad either. 

All 8 teams could win the Big 12 tournament and we will likely be playing a round of 32 quality opponent in the quarterfinals. 

[Goodman 3,273]

Just got home from the game with fam. In the stands it felt like ku controlled the game but we were able to finish and they could not. It was beautiful soccer weather. Kids had a great time. Hook'em!

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Up to #9 in RPI. Kind of sucks we were without the Canadians for so long because we would definitely be challenging for a 1 seed. 

1-1 tie with OK State, 2-1 loss to WV, and 1-0 loss to TCU without the Canadians. We probably get some type of result in at least 1 of those matches if not 2 with Grosso/Regan. Just one of those results in the TCU/WV match would probably have us top 5 in RPI. 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Grosso scores her first goal for Texas!

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Texas def. KSU 4-0 on senior day

[Js1 85,574]

58 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Grosso scores her first goal for Texas!

2 goals! 

[Js1 85,574]

Granted we didn’t have the strongest conference home schedule (Tech, WV, OSU and TCU on the road) and LBSU was our toughest nonconf foe but still 

 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Grosso would be the leading goal scorer on the team if they played her at forward or in a more attacking midfield position. 

But we have plenty of goal scoring threats. The key is finding central midfielders that can maintain possession and link up with the forwards out of the midfield instead of playing kick ball. Which is why Grosso is probably the most important player on the team. She’s the engine that makes the entire machine run. 

[pacman 7,371]

Earned a commitment from Canadian 2020 defender Shezan Samanani

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

Now Hiutema would be crazy not to commit 

[Pato del Muerto 52,600]

How does the team work when half of it goes off to play for Canada next year?

[Js1 85,574]

10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How does the team work when half of it goes off to play for Canada next year?

FIFA World Cup is in the summer and ends in July. CONCACAF qualifying for Tokyo is in February 2020.

Edited October 22, 2018 by Js1

[sushihorn 3,233]

20 hours ago, Js1 said:

Granted we didn’t have the strongest conference home schedule (Tech, WV, OSU and TCU on the road) and LBSU was our toughest nonconf foe but still

 

I seem to recall a little East Coast road trip early in the season...

[Js1 85,574]

10 minutes ago, sushihorn said:

I seem to recall a little East Coast road trip early in the season...

I was only talking our undefeated home schedule 

[sushihorn 3,233]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

I was only talking our undefeated home schedule 

Cool.  My bad.

[texasstrong12 4,668]

4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How does the team work when half of it goes off to play for Canada next year?

Only thing that  interferes with Texas is the world cup qualifying which only happens every 4 years. If they play in the World Cup that's in the summer before the Texas season starts. 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

@ Texas Tech on Thursday is going to be a battle because Tech is right on the bubble. Any type of result would likely get them in the tournament. 

[pacman 7,371]

Don't forget to vote for Katie Glenn

http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/mobile

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[texasstrong12 4,668]

I won't be surprised if we lose to Tech. 

This is a must win game for Tech so they are going to be all in on trying to produce a result. 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

This low camera positioning is tripping me out compared to the LHNs lol. Can’t see much of the field this way 

[perfectchaos007 6,677]

0-0 at half 

[texasstrong12 4,668]

0-0 at the half with Tech. 

[Goodman 3,273]

They're allowing tech to get away with a ton of fouls tonight. This turf sucks. Our back 3 on defense scare the heck out of me. Adams is having a rough night. Lubbock sucks.

[texasstrong12 4,668]

Jesus these Tech players are tackling our players. Give some yellow cards. 

[Goodman 3,273]

TT is one bush league team. It's on this ref for not calling these fouls early, now its out of hand. That is 3 fouls that can cause serious injury and only 1 yellow.