(SOC) 2024 Soccer Thread

That’s where I disagree. We have several MF’s who are more than capable but coaxh is telling them to be more direct and go up the field being more direct. Our challenge is getting the MF more involved offensively which will open other opportunities for the forwards to be more successful as well. We can’t be a kickball team and expect the MF to just be chasers.

 

Somewhat off topic I know, but--

Wife was just watching an HGTV international show, with a family moving from Gainesville Fl, looking for a life change and to rent in Seville, Spain. Having been to Seville we watched.

The family was that of former UF soccer head coach Tony Amato, who I had to look up to make sure my memory was correct. Attractive family btw.
Only at UF 1 year, but like most recent Gator hires got a nice severance as I recall. (That wasn't part of the show).

 

Gators outshot them 16-4 and still couldn't find the back of the net. It gets real Thursday when we open SEC play @ #21 Kentucky.
Florida and FGCU Tie 0-0 Sunday - Florida Gators

 

the new AD will have to make decision on this soccer coach. She definitely will have another year until we get a new President and AD

 

Today was a letdown. Never saw that coming and was really hoping for a W.

 

heard we have a top 10 class we are about to sign also, looks like she is making waves now..it has been a slow build. I watched the game the other day and it was obvious we were far superior as a team. But just couldnt score which is very aggrevating to novice fans like myself

 

to be competitive you have to bring in a few dynamic freshman but grad transfers is where the money is.

 

To go to Kentucky and battle to a 0-0 tie with a team that came in 8-0-0 is a really good achievement for this team, IMO. we only got 2 shots the entire game, none on goal, while KY had 7 total shots and only2 on goal. We had 16 fouls to their 8 and they had 9 corner kicks to our 3. So KY dominated the match and we had ZERO offense going, but managed to open the SEC season without a loss on the road. Pretty good.

 

I watched the offense tonight not as a fan but purely as a coach. Our problems make more sense to me now.
There are basically 4 or 5 ways common to score:
Beat players off the wings, except we don’t seem to have anybody with the speed to do that.
Turn the corner deep in the opponents end and get a cross in. We don't have anyone with the speed or ball handling to do that.
Quick counters. No speed there to outrun people, though as mentioned above we did have one great chance we blew.
Beat players off the dribble in the middle which opens the whole field up . Well not only do we not have ball handling skills for that, because we can’t do any of the above, they just clog the middle on us and force us to our weakness (creating off the wing).

Combine that with the lack of quality ball handling in the midfield, and the over the top ball becomes the attempt of last refuge.

it’s sad because defensively we are a top 10 or 15 team.

but for tonight, no shame in a draw.

 

agree with @oragator1 - defense is pretty solid, we look the part for the most part on defense and goldberg holds her own.

But everything else is pretty ugly, inability to combine 3 consecutive passes together, inability to play simple balls to a player feet, lots and lots of really bad first touches, and when we do attempt to go long, we just give the ball away. We have very little to any off the ball movement and our striker i think lost the ball everytime she touched it in the first half. But you often would see very silly mistakes, a player receives the ball, and then turns into a defender -- that's basics soccer 101 that shouldn't happen as often as it does. Little things like that have to be corrected.

Teams shape besides the back 4 isn't great ether, we don't spread the field enough to open up channels etc. becky's teams were always good at using the entire pitch. Overall again shocking lack of overall team speed. In general this has become a problem across all of youth soccer, kids aren't allowed to get the ball and dribble at someone, their too often instead encouraged to play negative or unneccesary square balls.

honestly, kentucky was just as bad, not sure how that team is 8-0. kentucky in the first half did play a few balls into space, that if they had a little bit less on them would have been difficult to deal with, but Goldberg did a good job coming off her line.

I flipped it over to texas-bama, game was night and day, played at a different pace besides the last 15 minutes where texas ran out of gas. Biggest problem I always see with the Girls college game and "lower" teams -- the ball is out of play way to much.

 

Auburn will be a real test. The loss of Hinnencamp and another forward has complicated the offensive ability. Last night we may have lost an experienced defensive Midfielder. Now is the time for their replacements to step up.

 

We actually had 3 or four good scoring chances in the first half, couple of good saves from their keeper and an errant shot. Think Auburn hasn’t had a SOG yet.

 

Auburn scores midway through the 2nd half and wins 1-0. Gators just can't get the offense going.