UConn Tops Men's Soccer in Conference Opener

Saturday, September 23

Temple Sports Complex

7:00 p.m.

Temple University

2-5-1

UConn

3-2-1

UCONN

Temple

UConn Tops Men's Soccer in Conference Opener

9.23.17 | Men's Soccer

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PHILADELPHIA – After a high energy battle, Temple men's soccer fell to UConn 2-0 in its first match of conference play. Despite great efforts by freshman Alan Soto Camacho sophomores Thibault Candia and Nick Sarver, Temple offense could not get a goal past the Huskies.

Keys to the Match
>Both teams managed a combined 10 fouls in the first 23 minutes of the match. Yellow cards were issued to both Blaise N'Gauge and sophomore Albert Moreno.
>The Huskies opened scoring with a goal from Abdou Mbacke Thiam (his fifth of the season) in the 25th minute. After an initial blocked shot, Thiam found an open space behind redshirt-senior Alex Cagle to earn UConn's first goal of the night.
>In the 50th minute, Soto Camacho took a chance for the Owls in efforts to get on the board. Despite getting the ball into the net, an offsides call nulled the goal.
>In the 79th minutes, UConn's Niko Petridis scored the squad's second goal of the match, his first goal of the season, with help from Alex Kao and Austin DaSilva.
>Temple made four more strong attempts at the end of the game, but could not score.

Match Notes
>The Owls outshot the Huskies 14-7.
>UConn collected seven total saves compared to Cagle's two.
> After the Temple's 2-0 loss, UConn remains unbeaten by the Owls since 2013.

Quotable
"I believe we played well tonight despite a few mistakes. Our goal being discounted in the beginning of the second half definitely killed our momentum. In a conference game you've got to lay everything out on the field and play 120%; I thought we competed out there, but we can't really afford to make mistakes anymore." – Head coach David MacWilliams

Up Next
>Temple continues its three-game homestand on Wednesday Sept. 27 against Penn State at 7 p.m.