M Soccer wins first B1G opener in 12 years

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

Michigan (3-0-1) opened up B1G play tonight against Wisconsin (1-0-2) at U-M Soccer Stadium.

A packed house as there was a student tailgate with free food that brought in over 2,000 tonight for the first time in 5 years.

Michigan got off to a hot start unlike last game where the GWG game late. Ivo Cerda buried it off a header in the 6th minute of the game to put the Wolverines up 1-0.

Later in the half around the 37th minute, Ivo Cerda and Tristan Jacob fed Marc Ybarra for another Michigan goal to make it 2-0.

That score would hold until about 4 minutes left in the game where Wisconsin got one back to cut the lead to 2-1. Fortunately a UW goal earlier in the 2nd half was waved off after an offsides call. 

Michigan held on in the final 4 minutes to take the game, 2-1.

Michigan has broken a 12 year B1G opener winless streak with tonight's win. This is only the 2nd EVER B1G Opening win in program history (2-12-4 all-time). 

Michigan is now 4-0-1 and will finally leave U-M Soccer Stadium for a game as they head to Bloomington next week on Wednesday to take on #4 Indiana. If Michigan can pull out a W in that game, that could be a program direction-changing win. 

Talented team with a very talented freshman class. Seeing these results this early that certainly weren't there in the past is nice.

MGoBoard

Wolverine Devotee

September 8th, 2017 at 10:26 PM ^

Gotta wait and see.

No really great wins so far. Nice start as opposed to last year's disaster, though.

Still struggle to create offense. Inconsistent. We'll know more after the next two games. 

Put 3 up against Cleveland State and then 3 days later didn't score until late in the game against Dartmouth. 

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IncrediblySTIFF

September 8th, 2017 at 10:37 PM ^

love your updates but every sentence doesn't need a new line. it makes none of them important, try using 2-3 sentences per paragraph and use bolded text to bring the reader into the important bits. thanks, carry on

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crg

September 9th, 2017 at 7:10 AM ^

Is flopping and diving a thing in college soccer or is that reserved only for the pro leagues (if so, maybe it takes more time to develop the necessary acting skills)?

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6th Blagdon

September 9th, 2017 at 7:25 AM ^

Was there last night myself and I can say the Badgers were rather adept at it already. Enjoyable experience though. I came in from out of state to catch the Cincy game and took the family to this on a whim. Great facility and atmosphere last night. I'd definitely try to hit up another game next time I'm in town.

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