Soccer club team falls to BYU
The Utah State men’s soccer team met its toughest opponent all season in Brigham Young University on Thursday in Provo, and left with a 4-0 loss.
Utah State came out with a defensive formation, putting two players at stopper for the first 15 minutes.
The tactic worked for a while but the defense was shelled by 30 shots, compared to Utah State’s three, throughout the duration of the evening allowing four of them into the goal.
Even though the statistics were lopsided. Lamara said he felt that his team performed well.
“It wasn’t bad,” Lamara said. “We actually played really well. We didn’t panic.”
Lamara said that out of the four goals BYU scored, two of them were “honest goals.”
BYU’s first goal came in the 14th minute when a well struck shot rebounded out of USU goalkeeper Robby Nelson’s hands and was tapped in by BYU freshman Brady Marshall.
Marshall would strike again in the 20th minute with a rip from outside the penalty area, described by Lamara as a legitimate goal.
Two more second half goals from the Cougars finished off the Aggies against a BYU club team that isn’t like any other in the country.
Last year BYU joined USL Premier Development League where they play against the top college talent in the country and even some semi-professional teams.
The easiest thing to compare their league to would be Single-A minor league baseball, expect the BYU soccer players don’t get paid.
The PDL runs during the summer months and BYU has only played two previous matches this fall where they defeated Weber and loss to Real Salt Lake’s reserve squad 4-0 before playing the Aggies.
– stm@cc.usu.edu