[Hieronymus]

2 games this week.

1. A 1:0 win vs. St Mary’s that was not a good performance. The first 25 min were Ok - too many turnovers but Montoya especially was destroying her side, resulting in Kitahata scoring on a Montoya cross early. Then the Subs came on at the 25th minute-ish and Stanford lost its momentum and never got it back. For example, Montoya’s second half was invisible. Fortunately, St. Mary’s isn’t good and had only a single decent opportunity late in the second half but couldn’t execute. Finally, Emri and Thomas got their first starts of the year.

2. A 2-1 win vs. USC. Emri and Thomas started again; so three Freshman starting two games in a row. The first half was the best play of the year. Bhuta and Klinger both scored, and USC had little going forward though USC did slowly work itself into the game as the half progressed. The second half though didn’t go so well. Aikey had a very early own goal after Pagador got torched. We then almost gave up a second own goal - good save by Craig. The Subs got the game under better control around minute 65, though we got saved by an offside call near the end of the game on a counter.

- I guess the own goal got changed to a USC goal. It sure looked like an own goal live.
- this game shows the limitations of Aikey at CB. When the game goes bad like it did in the second half, 1 CB doesn’t move the needle that much no matter who it is. Aikey had a modest impact in this game.
- And CF was a problem today - nobody really got the job done. That resulted in rare significant minutes for Lumi. Seems like it would be really nice to have Aikey there at least some of the time. Just sayin’.
- Pagador remains very vulnerable 1v1 on defense. Strangely USC went away from it later in the second half to attack Boamah I guess because she is a Frosh. Pagador also needed to foul on the counter that was almost a second USC goal.
- Klinger looked really good today.
- Emri was very solid minus one bad turnover in her first game where the defense was actually challenged. I would like to see her continue to start when Evans gets back, moving Aikey back to CF. I am not expecting that to happen though - Aikey appears to be entrenched at CB.
- the defensive shell in the second half was pretty porous. It was far too easy to penetrate into the interior 25-35 yards out from goal, and it was also too easy to get around the outside.

[Hieronymus]

2 games this week.

1. A 1:0 win vs. St Mary’s that was not a good performance. The first 25 min were Ok - too many turnovers but Montoya especially was destroying her side, resulting in Kitahata scoring on a Montoya cross early. Then the Subs came on at the 25th minute-ish and Stanford lost its momentum and never got it back. For example, Montoya’s second half was invisible. Fortunately, St. Mary’s isn’t good and had only a single decent opportunity late in the second half but couldn’t execute. Finally, Emri and Thomas got their first starts of the year.

2. A 2-1 win vs. USC. Emri and Thomas started again; so three Freshman starting two games in a row. The first half was the best play of the year. Bhuta and Klinger both scored, and USC had little going forward though USC did slowly work itself into the game as the half progressed. The second half though didn’t go so well. Aikey had a very early own goal after Pagador got torched. We then almost gave up a second own goal - good save by Craig. The Subs got the game under better control around minute 65, though we got saved by an offside call near the end of the game on a counter.

- I guess the own goal got changed to a USC goal. It sure looked like an own goal live.
- this game shows the limitations of Aikey at CB. When the game goes bad like it did in the second half, 1 CB doesn’t move the needle that much no matter who it is. Aikey had a modest impact in this game.
- And CF was a problem today - nobody really got the job done. That resulted in rare significant minutes for Lumi. Seems like it would be really nice to have Aikey there at least some of the time. Just sayin’.
- Pagador remains very vulnerable 1v1 on defense. Strangely USC went away from it later in the second half to attack Boamah I guess because she is a Frosh. Pagador also needed to foul on the counter that was almost a second USC goal.
- Klinger looked really good today.
- Emri was very solid minus one bad turnover in her first game where the defense was actually challenged. I would like to see her continue to start when Evans gets back, moving Aikey back to CF. I am not expecting that to happen though - Aikey appears to be entrenched at CB.
- the defensive shell in the second half was pretty porous. It was far too easy to penetrate into the interior 25-35 yards out from goal, and it was also too easy to get around the outside.