‘Cats Head Again On The Street Friday At No. 13 Michigan

EVANSTON, Ill. (October 23, 2025) – Unbeaten throughout its final three video games, Northwestern males’s soccer (6-4-3, 1-3-2 B1G) is about for its penultimate street journey of the 2025 season on Friday night at No. 13 Michigan.  Kickoff from the U-M Soccer Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich. is about for six p.m. CT.
 
LAST TIME OUT
In a matchup that includes 4 second-half targets, Northwestern and Penn State performed to a 2-2 draw this previous Friday at Jeffrey Field in University Park, Pa.
 
Baraka Tarleton netted his first Northwestern purpose to open the scoring within the 62nd minute, earlier than Jayvin Van Deventer scored his first purpose of 2025 with slightly below 5 minutes remaining.
 
SCOUTING MICHIGAN
Fresh off a 3-0 rout of UCLA final Friday, Michigan rolls into Friday’s matchup with Northwestern at 8-2-3 general and 4-2-1 in Big Ten Conference motion.  Fueled by its win over the Bruins, the Wolverines ascended to No. 13 within the newest United Soccer Coaches Top 25 Poll.
 
Head coach Chaka Daley’s crew contains a wealth of scoring choices, with 5 completely different gamers having scored three-plus targets this season.  Michael Ramirez and Quin Rogers have led the road for Daley this season, every depositing residence 5 targets. Ramirez, the crew’s general factors chief (5 targets, 3 assists) scored a pair of first-half targets towards UCLA, whereas Rogers put an exclamation level on the night time with a 72nd-minute strike from the penalty spot.
 
Grayson Elmquist has added 4 targets, whereas Shuma Sasaki and Kyle Pierson every boast three tallies.  Nicholas Cassiday, Dylan Davis, and Matthew Fisher have all confirmed greater than succesful distributors, with all three members of the trio having dished out 4 assists to share the crew lead within the class.
 
Isaiah Goldson has been a mainstay in purpose for Michigan this season, enjoying in each minute of all 13 video games. Goldson resides second amongst Big Ten Conference netminders in each targets towards common (0.85) and shutouts (6), with the latter complete rating twenty third nationally.
 
SERIES STUFF
Northwestern and Michigan will battle for the fortieth time in males’s soccer on Friday night time.  Behind a purpose within the twenty third minute from Tyler Glassberg, the ‘Cats snapped an eight-match skid to the Wolverines final season, choosing up a 1-0 win on October 18, 2024 at Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium.
 
Northwestern will likely be looking for its first street win over Michigan since a 2-0 blanking of the Wolverines on September 28, 2013.
 
UP NEXT
Northwestern returns residence on Friday, October 31 for a 6:30 p.m. CT assembly with No. 14 Indiana on Senior Night at Northwestern Medicine Field at Martin Stadium.