The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, September 26
Lawrence, Kansas
7 p.m. CT
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Soccer preview: at No. 17 Kansas & Kansas State
09.25.2019 | Soccer
The Longhorns open Big 12 play on the road this weekend against the Jayhawks and Wildcats
Matches 10 & 11: Texas (5-4-0) at No. 17 Kansas (8-2-0) and Kansas State (2-5-2)
Time: Thursday, Sept. 26 – 7 p.m. CT/Sunday, Sept. 29 – 1 p.m. CT
Location: Lawrence, Kan./Manhattan, Kan.
Live Stats: for Thursday: LINK; for Sunday: LINK
TV: Thursday's match will be broadcast live on FS1 via this LINK; Sunday's match will be broadcast online via Big 12 Now on ESPN+ via this LINK
Free Kicks:
- Texas leads its all-time series with Kansas by a 16-7-3 total, including 7-4-1 in Lawrence. The Jayhawks have had the better of the recent series by going 4-2-1 against UT over the last seven meetings. Texas is a perfect 3-0-0 all-time against Kansas State, including a win in its only trip to Manhattan back in 2017 (1-0, OT).
- UT enters Thursday night's match with a 13-8-2 all-time record in Big 12 Conference openers. The Longhorns are 5-1-1 in league lidlifters under the guidance of head coach Angela Kelly and have won their last two Big 12 openers (vs. Baylor, 2-1 OT, 2018; vs. Iowa State, 1-0, 2017). The last time UT started league action on the road was at Baylor in 2016 (tie 1-1, 2OT).
- Texas has spread the scoring around in a major way so far in 2019 as 10 DIFFERENT LONGHORNS have scored goals and 12 different players own points. Keep in mind that in 2018, the Burnt Orange & White had 10 different goal scorers over an entire 21-match season. The most players registering goals during a single campaign since Angela Kelly took over was 13 back in 2013.
- Texas sophomore midfielder Julia Grosso now owns THREE BRACES (two-goal matches) over her brief collegiate career. What's extra noteworthy is just how little time she takes between scoring those goals, with the most recent occurrence requiring only 52 seconds against Grambling. Check out what happens when UT's Canadian international gets rolling below:
Opponent Goal Times Time Between Goals
vs. Kansas State (2018) 67:58 & 74:02 6:04
vs. Gonzaga (2019) 39:02 & 44:10 5:08
vs. Grambling (2019) 31:00 & 31:52 0:52
- 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, 47-of-99 possible starts (47%) 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).
- Junior midfielder Haley Berg has been riding quite the hot streak lately having SCORED SIX GOALS OVER TEXAS' LAST SIX MATCHES. She recently tied for the sixth-longest goal-scoring streak in school history by ticking the twine in three straight contests from Sept. 6-13.
- The injury bug continues to take a bite out of the Longhorns as senior forward Cyera Hintzen has missed the last three matches for precautionary reasons following a clash of heads/collision on Sept. 13 against Washington. Texas has or is still missing numerous expected major contributors from all over the pitch. Also included among the list who've missed time with injury in the early season are: redshirt junior forward Cydney Billups (missed first five matches), senior defender Emma Jett (missed first two matches and was limited over the next two), junior midfielder Emily Strouphauer (still rehabbing an ACL injury) and redshirt junior forward Tecora Turner (missed two matches against Washington & Monmouth).
- Whichever team hits the two-goal mark in a contest seems to be a key to victory in 2019 as the Longhorns are a perfect 5-0 when scoring at least twice in a match, while their opposition is 3-1.
- Junior midfielder Haley Berg (five assists), senior forward Cyera Hintzen (four assists) and sophomore midfielder Julia Grosso (four assists) are all off to "helpful" starts to the 2019 campaign. Berg is currently tied for SECOND in the Big 12 in assists, while Hintzen and Grosso are dead-locked for eighth in the league. They would need to reach nine total assists to enter the Longhorns single-season top 10 list where they would tie five players (one of them Hintzen) for sixth. The all-time Texas record for assists is 14 set by Kelly Wilson back in 2004.
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