TONIGHT!: Soccer Sweet 16 Sunday: 8 PM on ESPN+: 3 Iowa vs 7 VA Tech

[Menace Sockeyes]

Thread title update again. The eight games of the Soccer Sweet 16 are a marathon, noon to night today. The Hawks-Hokies are the late match, and the last ticket punched to the Elite Eight XI’s. Definitely pulling for Sparty to upset Duke and give us one last home match with a berth at College Cup weekend on the line.

 

[jaxhawk06]

Duke up 2-0 so it looks like the winner will be traveling to Durham

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Duke up 2-0 so it looks like the winner will be traveling to Durham

Not a good omen for Iowa that the ACC is having a very good night over the B1G. Wake Forest beat Ohio State, UNC over Minnesota, and Duke over Sparty. Hopefully it’s just a good night for the North Carolina schools.

Side note: With Wake Forest and Penn State going through, the Hawks have beaten two of this year’s Elite Eight Xl’s.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

About to kickoff, and I doubt much of a crowd with UCLA out. Hopefully some LA I-Club make their voices heard.

EDIT: Well, not TOTALLY empty, with black and gold dominating:

 

[QChawks]

Go hawks!

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Oof! Schueller off the crossbar!

 

[Hawkfan_08]

I heard we got one behind the keeper too. Ugh... half 0-0?

I need some updates as I don't have ESPN+

 

[Joes Place]

I heard we got one behind the keeper too. Ugh... half 0-0?

I need some updates as I don't have ESPN+

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[Menace Sockeyes]

I heard we got one behind the keeper too. Ugh... half 0-0?

I need some updates as I don't have ESPN+

Yep. No one there to punch it home though. These teams are near mirror images of each other, with Iowa slightly better in possession. Both tough tackling teams. It’s been very physical. Halftime just now.

 

[QChawks]

good half

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Clear fuqqin’ foul in midfield by VA Tech and then bitching to get the softest PK ever? Ooh, I despise this team. Luckily the ref didn’t fall for it.

 

[Pinehawk]

I feel like the quality of soccer should be a little higher at this point. But, let’s go Hawks.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

I feel like the quality of soccer should be a little higher at this point. But, let’s go Hawks.

Hawks getting mugged all game, but especially this second half. VA Tech can’t handle possession wise so the strategy is to foul and hope the ref swallows the whistle while they break quickly in transition.

 

[QChawks]

VT owning the match since halftime

 

[Pinehawk]

Hawks getting mugged all game, but especially this second half. VA Tech can’t handle possession wise so the strategy is to foul and hope the ref swallows the whistle while they break quickly in transition.

Yeah, it’s physical. But players are just clearing the ball in a panic and giving it away constantly.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Eva Pattinson with a non-contact knee injury. Doesn’t look good.

 

[QChawks]

Hawks look like they are running out of gas

 

[Chuck C]

Off the post

 

[QChawks]

Omg

That should have been a goal 🫤

 

[Pinehawk]

Missed a put back. Needed that.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Ahhhhh! Hawks off the right post!

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

That’s why Greer is a center back. Great one, but not a forward.

 

[QChawks]

That’s why Greer is a center back. Great one, but not a forward.

not a great left foot

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Ooooooh. Ingles. Hawks waking up. Starting to match VT’s physicality.

 

[Pinehawk]

I can’t believe they hired a 10 year old to be an Assistant Ref in a match this big.

 

[Pinehawk]

Nobody even got on the end of that perfect free kick.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Oof. Another one that looked bound for goal off a Hawk free kick. Get a toenail to that and it’s 1-0.

 

[Pinehawk]

Big save!

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

HUGE Enneking save there! First time she needed to make a save, and it was a beauty

 

[QChawks]

that should’ve been like her second yellow card

 

[Pinehawk]

Damn
Cross/goal

 

[QChawks]

That will do it

great year hawks!

 

[Joes Place]

☹️

 

[Chuck C]

Iowa had their chances

 

[jaxhawk06]

That looked like an own goal. Ugh

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Fuqq. A looping cross goes over a leaping Enneking and into the far side netting. Damn. 1-0 Hokies with 10 minutes to equalize for the Hawks.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

I'm watching now. Just no possession. Yuck.

 

[Pinehawk]

Let’s see some urgency Hawks. Push up.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

I feel like the Hawks have one more good chance in them.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

Ugh, there it was. Gezcik should have chipped that one in. Too much distance to try from 30.