Huskers Getting Ready for Physical Test

Nebraska is making ready for a take a look at of its toughness in Saturday’s recreation in opposition to Illinois, and Mickey Joseph says he has seen enchancment within the Huskers’ physicality.

“It is gotten so much higher,” Nebraska’s interim head soccer coach stated Tuesday. “I like the place they’re proper now. It needs to be up there as a result of Illinois is a bodily soccer workforce, so we’ve to match that physicality.”

The Seventeenth-ranked Illini have one of many nation’s high defenses statistically, and the offense is powered by the nation’s main rusher, Chase Brown. 

“They don’t seem to be disguising something,” linebacker Eteva Mauga-Clements stated. “They’re seeing who’s robust, who’s bodily.”

Nebraska’s problem on protection is heightened by the lack of linebacker and co-captain Nick Henrich, who injured a knee throughout the Oct. 15 recreation at Purdue. Joseph confirmed Tuesday that Henrich is completed for the season.

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