Virginia Travels to New York to Take on No. 3 Syracuse

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Virginia males’s soccer crew (5-3, 1-1 ACC) is ready to take on No. 3 Syracuse (7-0-1, 2-0 ACC) in ACC motion Saturday night time (Sept. 24) at SU Soccer Stadium. Kickoff is ready for 7 p.m.

HOW TO FOLLOW

Saturday night time’s match towards No. 3 Syracuse can be streamed on ACCNX which is offered by way of the ESPN app and at WatchESPN.com for patrons who’ve the ACC Network as part of their tv subscription. Live stats are additionally obtainable and hyperlinks to each the dwell stats and broadcast can be found at VirginiaSports activities.com. Fans may also get updates by following this system’s official Twitter account (@UVAMenSoccer).

MATCH NOTES

• Virginia will play its first true highway match of the season at Syracuse. The solely different match the Cavaliers have performed away from Klöckner Stadium this season was towards Maryland at Audi Field in Washington D.C.
• The Cavaliers are presently second within the ACC in targets with 20, a mark that ranks because the sixth-highest whole within the NCAA this season
• Leo Afonso leads the ACC in photographs with 35
• Kome Ubogu leads the Cavaliers in targets this season after scoring his fifth towards American
• A complete of 11 totally different Cavaliers have tallied an help this season, Moritz Kappelsberger and Daniel Mangarov lead the crew with two every
• The Cavaliers have outshot their opponents by a staggering margin of 137-61 registering 17.1 per sport
• A complete of 11 totally different Cavaliers have registered targets this season, a complete that’s second solely to Wake Forest’s 13 inside the ACC
• Of Virginia’s 20 targets scored this season, none have featured a repeat mixture of gamers scoring and helping
• A complete of 11 totally different Cavaliers have tallied assists this season
• The Cavaliers have been threatening when incomes set items this season as they’ve scored six targets off them this season

AGAINST THE ORANGE

• Saturday’s match can be simply the seventh assembly between Virginia and Syracuse, UVA leads the sequence 4-2-1
• George Gelnovatch has been on the helm for Virginia in every of the earlier conferences
• Virginia has entered a match towards Syracuse trailing the Orange within the polls on two events in sequence historical past. The Cavaliers are 1-0-1 in these matches.
• The final time an unranked Cavalier squad confronted off with a top-25 Syracuse facet was within the first-ever assembly between the applications in 2013. Unranked Virginia defeated No. 24 Syracuse by a rating of 2-0
• At least one crew has been ranked within the high 25 in 5 of the seven conferences between the 2
• In the final two video games towards the Orange, captains Leo Afonso and Andreas Uealand registered targets towards Syracuse
• Afonso discovered the again of the web final season (9/10/21) whereas Andreas Ueland netted the game-winning purpose two seasons in the past (10/30/20)
• Virginia has performed towards the Orange on the highway simply thrice holding a 2-1 file in these video games

NOTING SYRACUSE

• Syracuse enters the match with a file of 7-0-1 and a 2-0 mark in ACC play
• The Orange are ranked No. 3 within the newest United Soccer Coaches Poll, their highest rating for the reason that 2016 season
• The Orange grew to become the primary crew to defeat previously top-ranked and reigning nationwide champion, Clemson, after a 2-1 victory over the tigers
• The Orange have conceded simply two targets on the season

ON THE HORIZON

The Cavaliers will journey to No. 8 Pittsburgh on Friday (Sept. 30) at 7 p.m. earlier than returning residence to Klöckner Stadium for a 6 p.m. matchup with No. 11 Denver on Tuesday (Oct. 4).