It was the correct call. Leo pretty much dove parallel to the goal and ended up sliding too far. At no point was he pushed or redirected into the goal mouth. He dives like one step earlier or even just stays on his feet and it's probably good.
We are good enough to be in these games yes, but the execution late the last couple years has been hard to watch. Except for the UNC game winner last year.
Our best two defenders are sophomores. Our best two midfielders are sophomores. Our best attack is a Freshman. Goalie, wings, fogo, all transfers. Picking up on the pattern? I think talent wise we can compete now, but we’ll still have some challenges.
I just went back & looked at the end. You are correct, we had used our TO already. But as Carc said we didn't have all our right people out there. We weren't ready. Rice was coming in trailing the play and acting like Md was going to throw the ball around. Did Gary do any coaching/preparing while the officials were reviewing the play or only lobbying them? Does Gary do any in game coaching? Does Gary coach? It seemed the Syracuse coaching staff was outcoached by the Md staff most of the game.
Pain
he did make some big saves as game went on but was under 50%. He has to be least 50% every game. Some of their goals he had no shot as was door step pass goal. But the koras bounce was weak n slow he didn’t step to it. The spanos goal at end he dove from back of net n beat him far lost which can’t happen. Also on the one think erska goal where he dove mark was low to ground n got beat high if just stood tall not dropping prob makes that save. He seems to be guessing at times not reacting. He had 9 saves which is really what’s he’s been avg so far this season think only hit double digit saves once.
Too busy complaining about the call, being incredulous, etc. Definitely were outcoached in that particular moment. Hopefully a lesson learned.
No disagreement there. It’s as if we were surprised they restarted the game. It was far too easy.
