Soccer battles back for draw in Nebraska – Daily Trojan

After falling behind within the first half, the USC Ladies’s soccer group battled again to safe a tie 1-1 towards College of Nebraska-Lincoln Sunday afternoon.

“It’s a kind of video games the place a tie feels extra like a loss, so I feel we’re taking it fairly laborious,” mentioned Head Coach Jane Alukonis. “It’s a recreation we felt we would have liked to win and needed to win, and it didn’t go our means at present.”

Nebraska secured the lead late within the first-half after sophomore ahead Abbey Schwarz scored within the thirty seventh minute. The Trojans struggled with their very own capturing within the first half, totaling solely 6 pictures in comparison with Nebraska’s 11.

“Nebraska does a very good job of simply making the sport actually disruptive within the air, plenty of fouls, very bodily. We have been hoping to have the ability to settle the sport, maintain it on the bottom and play a bit extra soccer, however there have been quite a lot of moments that required us simply to outwork them,” Alukonis mentioned. “The sport was very disruptive and only a robust one to play.”

Regardless of the low variety of first half pictures and overwhelming bodily play by the Huskies, who dedicated 10 first half fouls, the sport was nearer than it could have appeared.

“We speak rather a lot in regards to the high quality of pictures,” Alukonis mentioned. “Typically Nebraska does put quite a lot of pictures on the board, nevertheless it doesn’t all the time essentially imply that they have been nearer to scoring.”

After a halftime adjustment, the Trojans started attacking the objective extra, outshooting Nebraska 11-5 within the ultimate 45 minutes and totaling 9 pictures on objective to Nebraska’s 3 over the course of the sport.

“We talked to our group rather a lot about ensuring our chances are high high quality,” Aluknois mentioned. “We needed to go a bit extra direct and chase the sport, and I believed we have been profitable in what we tried to make use of, aside from a pair that have been offside or didn’t fairly end.”

The Trojan’s direct play paid off as sophomore ahead Simone Jackson discovered the again of the online within the 54th minute, scoring off an help by senior midfielder Croix Bethune. With the objective, Jackson prolonged her scoring streak to 3 consecutive video games.

“Simone has completed rather well getting on the board, recreation after recreation,” Alukonis mentioned. “By way of moving into the positions  we needed to, I believed that we have been pretty profitable.”

Nevertheless, regardless of the elevated shot quantity within the second half, the Trojan’s did not convert any of their possibilities right into a recreation winner.

“I feel we created, however a few of our greatest possibilities have been referred to as offsides,” Alukonis revealed. The Trojans have been referred to as offside 3 times all through the sport. “General, we simply wanted one or two of these to go our means however didn’t have the luck at present.”

On prime of the stress of two separate street video games in 4 days, USC can be making an attempt to take care of the fixed shuffling of their roster as gamers go away and return from excursions with their nationwide groups. 

“Whereas it’s very nice to have quite a lot of gamers again, typically you don’t fairly know the way lengthy they are going to be capable of play for or at what stage they’re able to carry out, simply based mostly on every thing their our bodies have gone by means of not too long ago” Alukonis mentioned. “It’s good to have extra choices, however we additionally must reintegrate them into the group.”

After an extended weekend of play, the Trojans have three days to relaxation earlier than they return to motion towards UC Irvine Thursday afternoon.

“At all times, our focus is outworking the opposite group, creating extra possibilities, placing objectives away, and attempting to disclaim any alternative of hazard from them,” Alukonis mentioned. “We’re conscious of the extent that Irvine is, and it’s going to be a tricky one, however we are going to work as laborious as we presumably can to get the consequence.”

The Trojans look to say victory as they return residence towards UC Irvine at Soni McAlister Discipline on Sept. 15 at 3:00 pm.