Lehigh Drops Midweek Match To Delaware 3-1

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh males’s soccer returned to the Ulrich Sports Complex on Tuesday night for a midweek conflict with the undefeated Delaware Blue Hens. The Mountain Hawks suffered their third lack of the season, falling 3-1 to the Blue Hens.

“Delaware showed why they’re undefeated and are having the season they are, they’re a really good team,” mentioned Ingrassia Family males’s head soccer coach Dean Koski. “These are how we learn and how we get better. Our focus now needs to be on Holy Cross.”

Lehigh (4-3-3) confronted a Delaware (9-0-1) workforce that has but to undergo a loss on the season, and it confirmed within the first half. The Blue Hens acquired on the board throughout the first ten minutes, as Marius Stenner scored on assists from Jan Schroeder and Mikey Johnson within the tenth minute. Delaware prolonged their lead within the thirty ninth minute to take a 2-0 lead into the locker room. Delaware out-shot Lehigh 8-3 within the first half.

The Mountain Hawks acquired one again early within the second half, as senior Yusef Gueye scored his team-leading third aim of the season off an help from first-year Luciano Larrea. The Mountain Hawks continued to struggle into the second half, however a second aim by Stenner put a cease to Lehigh’s comeback effort. Lehigh was as soon as once more out-shot within the second half by Delaware 10-1.

“We’re a team that isn’t afraid to play from behind, and we’ve shown that all season,” mentioned Koski. “Going down 2-0 makes it hard on ourselves, but we know that we can find goals. What you can’t do is win games at this level when you give up three goals.”

Gueye, Giacomo Zizza, Landon Bealer and Aiden Gonzalez registered Lehigh’s photographs within the match. Delaware tallied 18 complete photographs with 9 on aim whereas Lehigh posted 4 photographs with two approaching aim. The Blue Hens additionally generated six nook alternatives to Lehigh’s one.

“We have to be good in our individual defending moments in our final third,” mentioned Koski. “There were opportunities for us to press them higher or win the ball in higher areas of the field, and we didn’t do a good job there. You can only defend back there for so long before good teams like Delaware are going to punish you for that.”

Goalkeeper Anton Kinnunen tied his career-high with six saves within the match.

The Mountain Hawks will resume the Patriot League season on Sunday, October 5 at 2 p.m. to tackle the Holy Cross Crusaders on the Ulrich Sports Complex.

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