The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Sunday, October 6
Austin, Texas
1 p.m. CT
University of Texas
vs
#RV West Virginia
Soccer preview: West Virginia
10.04.2019 | Soccer
The Longhorns host the Mountaineers in an important Big 12 showdown on Sunday at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Match 13: West Virginia (6-4-1, 1-1-0 Big 12) at Texas (8-4-0, 3-0-0 Big 12)
Time: Sunday, Oct. 6 – 1 p.m. CT
Location: Austin, Texas (Mike A. Myers Stadium & Soccer Field)
Tickets: LINK
Parking: Fans are encouraged to buy parking in advance through Click-and-Park here: LINK
NOTES FOR FANS:
- The first 300 fans through the gates on Sunday will receive this year's Texas Soccer Trading Cards for FREE
- Fans will be allowed to bring their own lawn chairs this season to sit behind the end lines at all home Texas soccer matches.
TEXAS CLEAR BAG POLICY: Please note that there is a Clear Bag Policy in effect for fans when attending Texas Athletic events. For more details, please visit this LINK
Live Stats: LINK
TV: The match will be broadcast live on Longhorn Network (accessible through WATCHESPN with certain cable providers) and can be watched online through this LINK.
Free Kicks:
- Texas enters Sunday with just a 2-7-1 all-time record against West Virginia, but both victories have come at Mike A. Myers Stadium, including UT's 1-0 win back in 2017. WVU swept a pair of matches from the Longhorns in 2018, winning 2-1 in Morgantown, W.Va., and 1-0 in the Big 12 Championship semifinals in Kansas City, Mo. Overall, the series has always been close as eight of the 10 matches have been settled by a goal or less.
- With Thursday's win over TCU, Texas has started Big 12 play at a perfect 3-0 for the first time since 2017 and for the sixth time in school history (other instances were 2017, 2012, 2002, 2001 & 2000). This marks the third time the Longhorns have won the opening three matches of the league campaign under the guidance of head coach Angela Kelly. Only the 2001 & 2002 Longhorns ever started a Big 12 season at 4-0 with the 2001 squad going on to win the program's only Big 12 regular-season title.
- The Longhorns enter Sunday's match having tied the school record of four consecutive shutouts previously established from Oct. 12-24, 2008 (Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas). UT also hasn't allowed a goal over its last 360 minutes of match action dating back to the start of the contest on Sept. 22 against Grambling, just 58:40 from tying the school record of 418:40 set from Nov. 2-20, 2001. This marks the second lengthy shutout streak for the Horns this season after going 261:05 without allowing a goal from Sept. 6-15.
- The Longhorns have now won 25 consecutive matches in which they scored two-or-more goals in a contest dating back to the start of the 2017 season. The last time Texas failed to win when tickling the twine on two occasions was in a 3-2 defeat at TCU back on Oct. 28, 2016.
- With time running short, Texas' offense seems to step up to the challenge as SIX of the Longhorns 2019 match-winning goals have come in the 62nd-minute or later. Three of those (Gonzaga, at Kansas State, TCU) have been scored in the 81st-minute or later with the last two occurring at the 86:02 (K-State) and 87:34 (TCU) marks. In all, six of Texas' eight match-winning goals this season have been scored during the second half.
- Call her "Clutch Cyera' as senior forward Cyera Hintzen has scored a remarkable seven career match-winning goals in the 81st-minute or later following her 88th-minute goal to beat TCU on Thursday, 1-0. Two of those have come this season (previously scored to beat Gonzaga at 80:56 on Aug. 22).
- Following Thursday's blanking of TCU, redshirt junior goalkeeper Nicole Curry has now equaled Dianna Pfenninger's school record of four consecutive shutouts established back during the 2008 campaign. Curry is also currently riding a personal shutout streak of 366:59 dating back to Sept. 15 against Monmouth.
- Scoring first in a match has proven vital for the Longhorns fortunes this season as Texas is a perfect 6-0-0 when finding the back of the net before its opponent in 2019.
- Junior midfielder Haley Berg has been riding quite the hot streak lately having SCORED SIX GOALS AND DISHED FIVE ASSISTS OVER TEXAS' LAST NINE MATCHES. She is currently second in the Big 12 in assists (ranked seventh in NCAA Division I as of Sept. 30) and recently tied for the sixth-longest goal-scoring streak in school history by tickling the twine in three straight contests from Sept. 6-13.
- Due to graduation attrition and injuries, Texas has been forced to lean on a myriad of young players to fill out the starting XI so far in 2019. In all, 58-of-132 possible starts (44%) have gone to freshmen and sophomores. Including juniors, EIGHT Longhorns players have also earned their first starts in the Burnt Orange & White this year (midfielders Kailey Smith & Carlee Allen; forwards Sydney Nobles & Teni Akindoju; defenders Maddie Dorsett, Cameron Brooks & Peyton McGee; goalkeeper Savannah Madden).
- After going just 2-8 in one-goal matches back in 2016, the Longhorns have since turned around their fortunes in such contests by going 22-10 in their last 32 one-goal matches since beginning 2017 (4-2 so far in 2019).
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