Does anyone know what in the heck she was doing out there?
UNC Women’s Soccer 2025-2026
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She’s been flirting with disaster all night. I’ve been very unimpressed.
some people are forgetting we are a very young team who played a quality opponent the first game. we lost 6 pro players
I don’t think everyone is forgetting that and that is where the hope will come from. But, can’t you come up with a little different strategy that doesn’t expose some of our players so much.
I think with this young of a team and the loss of some significant pace, we should avoid a 3-back defense. Playing Gaetino so far up early in the game pushed Ullmark out of the center too much. Regardless, need the goalkeeper to make better choices…
Eh, lots of folks were calling for Claire to be benched in the first few matches of last season. Brooks certainly made some mistakes, but there is plenty of blame to go around on this one. Pretty sh!tty play from several folks tonight.
Replay looked red to me. Looked similar to the dangers of a horse collar tackle in football and was clearly intentional,
Liya shouldn’t be benched based on one game. She made a few mistakes but as the season goes on she will improve. She also had experience playing against the USWNT and England in the past few months
We shall see what TN can do this year, but on paper that was not a quality team coming into this one. And They just soundly beat us.
for perspective, the only unranked teams we have lost to in the previous 3 seasons were VT in 2022 (we outshot them 15-5) and Pitt(2OT) in 2023. And in those same 3 years our only 2 goal loss was an 2-4 decision to defending national champion FSU.
this loss really stands out for the seeming low quality of the opponent and the lopsided nature of the result.
yeah It’s always easy to see goalie mistakes, but our defensive play was plain bad all night. Even Munson before going out was beat repeatedly on the defensive left that she was able to hide with recovery speed and TN failing to have connecting runners (Until the last goal). And the midfield simply did not retain possession nor create scoring chances against a team with less talent.
our high ball pressure from forwards looked half-assed all night, but maybe that is off the table considering so few offensive substitutions.
TN had solid defense, but everything else they achieved in this game was based on cashing in on gifts from the women in light blue.
Some streaks came to an end today. Hope they rebound from this and go on a winning streak
Two things:
1 - Want to see all GKs. Shorrock, Maihs, Johann, and Gundry. All need real game time. Outside of one game, we have a very easy schedule for the next 3 weeks.
2 - I know the team is thin and has holes. All the more reason to play everyone. Anyone who is not hurt needs to play. I understand the new coach is not Anson and hates substitutions. He needs to get over it. He can sub less than Anson, but he needs to try and develop the bench and find a starting 11. He's very stubborn and it can be his undoing. If a player he wants to play plays well, they play. If they don't play well, they still play.
Finally, can't wait for 34 to be healthy. Her not playing yet and Evie leaving really hurts us. Look forward to strategy shifts and more players given PT
1 - Want to see all GKs. Shorrock, Maihs, Johann, and Gundry. All need real game time. Outside of one game, we have a very easy schedule for the next 3 weeks.
2 - I know the team is thin and has holes. All the more reason to play everyone. Anyone who is not hurt needs to play. I understand the new coach is not Anson and hates substitutions. He needs to get over it. He can sub less than Anson, but he needs to try and develop the bench and find a starting 11. He's very stubborn and it can be his undoing. If a player he wants to play plays well, they play. If they don't play well, they still play.
Finally, can't wait for 34 to be healthy. Her not playing yet and Evie leaving really hurts us. Look forward to strategy shifts and more players given PT
She struggled tonight. She was very poor.
I'm trying to be positive and point out anyone that impressed me and I'm kinda coming up short. Those that impressed me on Saturday either didn't show up or just didn't play well.
I'll say that Kate's press efforts have never really stuck out to me as anything other than for show. I don't think she likes contact. But she did force a few errors that lead to turnovers last night. So I guess there's that.
Just wanna put this game in the rear view mirror now and forget it ever happened.
I'll say that Kate's press efforts have never really stuck out to me as anything other than for show. I don't think she likes contact. But she did force a few errors that lead to turnovers last night. So I guess there's that.
Just wanna put this game in the rear view mirror now and forget it ever happened.
No doubt this team will get better and more connected. But I'm not sure what to do in goal. Brooks was just not very good. She even practically missed on a punt barely getting it out of the penalty area. My jaw dropped.
He needs to play everyone. This is the only way the players can stay fresh and especially during crunch time. He is having the same problem that HD is having. You have to play more players. I hope HD will play more players during basketball season starts. He now has too much talent to not play them. I am bringing him up to say that Damon needs to do the same. When you listen to him on the podcast last week, the way he was talking and raving about the freshman made me feel like he was going to play them along with everyone else. I hope he and his staff will look at the tape and let more players play on Sunday. That is the only way that you are going to develop your talent that you have on your team. As far as the GK is concerned. He brought in a lot of GK. I do not understand why he was not rotating them in. Well, let us see what happens on Sunday. Will he made the necessary adjustments and let more players play? That is the question.
There is no way this team should have lost to Tennessee.
Being here in (near Knoxville), didn’t know they were playing last night and while watching some of the Little League WS, the score popped up and I saw the score and was stunned. I said maybe that was wrong, so I waited till the score popped up again to realize TN won.
Looked better overall today. Starting to connect our passes better. Fewer misses where the receiving player wasn't where the passer thought she would be. I loved the "pinball machine" goal in the second half. Also used a different goalie in the second half. And yes, I realize that we were playing Siena. At home. Still feel like we saw some improvement.