Maryland women’s soccer travels to Minnesota

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Maryland (0-7-2 B1G) travels to Minneapolis to accept on Minnesota (four-3-ii B1G) on Sunday at 2 p.one thousand.

Maryland has struggled all season but especially equally of belatedly, losing its last three games and declining to score in its final four games.

The Terps are coming off a two-0 loss at Wisconsin, and were unable to mountain a comeback despite creating some practiced scoring chances after conceding 2 early goals in the 7th and 11th minute.

This came after the Terps started a young lineup, including 6 freshmen, due to injuries and fatigue in the squad. Maryland caput double-decker Ray Leone talked about the changes.

"The fatigue level is high, a lot of overtimes, a lot of mileage," Leone said. "Nosotros really used this as an opportunity to give a lot of young players their first Big Ten beginning, first Big X experience against last year'due south champions, and it was worth it."

Despite the loss, Leone was happy with the performance and the chances the Terps created.

"Today we had some good chances, probably the all-time chances we've had in a while," Leone said. "Part of information technology is fatigue, then we've got to go fresher and continue to piece of work on the finishing."

Minnesota bounced back from ii straight losses against ranked teams in Penn Country and Rutgers with a i-0 win over Purdue on Th. Minnesota'south joint peak-scorer, freshman midfielder Sophia Boman, grabbed a tardily goal in the 83rd minute to requite the Gophers the win.

Leone hopes that Maryland tin can go on to meliorate and become a positive upshot at Minnesota.

"We played much better than nosotros did confronting Iowa [against Wisconsin] and then we felt similar we got our game back," Leone said. "Nosotros're keeping the ball decently, defending decently, we just got to get our legs back so that we can really requite it everything we got."

Maryland is 2-4 all-time against Minnesota, but won the nearly recent matchup between the two last flavor ii-0, with goals from redshirt junior forward Alyssa Poarch and senior forward Mikayla Dayes giving the Terps the win.

Maryland will cease its regular flavour at Penn Country on Sat before playing in the Big Ten Wildcard Weekend, which is scheduled to begin on April viii.

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