Pitt men soccer
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Pitt has not looked good at all this spring. Only beat Duquesne 1-0, who played a man down the last 20-25 minutes. Although Duquesne never really threatened, Pitt did not have a ton of quality shots like you'd expect them to. Factor in it was Duquesne's first game in 1.5 years, it was a little concerning. Then they go get smoked at UNC.
The game vs BC was very similar to Duquesne. BC's 2nd game in 1.5 years. BC had a few decent chances but although Pitt controlled the game, again, they didnt put a ton of pressure on the BC keeper.
Petkovic, Noel, and Dexter have largely been invisible. I can't really tell if teams are doing anything differently against us or perhaps Vidovich is going more defensive since they gave up a lot of goals in the fall. The plus side is they have 2 wins and 2 shutouts but against pretty bad teams.
The game vs BC was very similar to Duquesne. BC's 2nd game in 1.5 years. BC had a few decent chances but although Pitt controlled the game, again, they didnt put a ton of pressure on the BC keeper.
Petkovic, Noel, and Dexter have largely been invisible. I can't really tell if teams are doing anything differently against us or perhaps Vidovich is going more defensive since they gave up a lot of goals in the fall. The plus side is they have 2 wins and 2 shutouts but against pretty bad teams.
Great to get the win but they dont look nearly as good this spring. Keep winning tight ones vs bad teams
Well yeah, they are. In the fall they went 2-6-0. So far this spring they are 1-3-2. So overall they are 3-9-2.
That's bad.
they played basically all top 15 teams. that wasn't some normal 2-6 against a bunch of cupcakes and mid-level acc teams. we only beat them 1-0 in the ACC tournament
do these results tell you this is a bad team? https://goduke.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule/2020-21
Those results say that they are 3-9-2. Which is bad.
Sure, they've played some good teams. Everyone in the ACC does. They are no where close to the top of the ACC, and they aren't in the middle either.
And by the way, the reason that they played almost all top 15 teams in the fall is because in the fall there weren't much more than 15 schools playing. The top 10 was almost all ACC schools. By that definition everyone in the ACC played "basically all top 15 teams".
exactly my point. they didn't get to play anyone other than very good teams. Clemson won the best soccer conference in the country. and they needed a 2nd overtime to beat this duke team.
Wait, your point is that they are bad? OK, then we agree.
By the way, now that everyone is back to playing the ACC currently has four teams ranked in the top 25. And among the 15 other schools receiving votes there is one ACC school. So 50 teams receiving votes, five of them from the ACC.
I wonder how all those other very good ACC teams aren't even getting one point in the poll?
Oh, wait, that's not quite right. For some reason the poll on the NCAA web site is the one from a couple weeks ago. In this weeks poll there are still four ACC teams in the top 25, but there are TWO other teams getting votes of the 15 in that category. So six out of 50.
i just find the poll from 3/1 so using that. acc has 3 of the top 6. pac 12, big east, and cusa have a decent showing but nowhere near the acc.
in the last NCAA tournament (2019), the acc had 10 teams. the next highest conference was 4. put 2 teams in the final 4.
if your argument is that duke, playing mainly a very tough ACC schedule (and they didn't even play any bottom feeders), playing tight games against said top competition but having a low winning percentage means they are a bad team, then i don't know what to tell you. they beat NCSU twice, who was a NCAA tournament team in 2019. duke is a quality win in soccer.
circling back to the actual game: it was not the panthers' best game in regards to defense. not by any means. is that a concern moving forward? yes.
Like I said, in the 3/1 poll it was five of the top 50. In the poll from this past Monday it was six out of 50. The ACC has had weeks in the past with much higher representation than that. Hell, there have been weeks when the ACC had five or six teams in the top 25. If they were picking the NCAA tournament today the ACC would be getting no where close to ten teams in this year.
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