This post is a copy of the message Paul Neumann wrote about the previous weekend and includes a short PS from Sheldon Zenner. The added photos are from the ones I (Jeffrey) took during the Southwestern game. Sorry, I was not able to make the Denison game.
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Sorry for the delay in the update but we came home to a city without power due to winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ike(which may take up to a week to restore) so schools and businesses are shut.
In any case on to the important stuff. The Bears had a great weekend with two shutouts in which they dominated play and played 24 players. We had parents of 15 players in attendance (representing 8 of the 17 states on our roster) and had a lovely time watching soccer. I think the Hendricksons get the furthest travel award coming in from LA but the Bruce Brege gets extra credit for coming in on a redeye via Chicago so probably got the most airline miles.
You can pull the statistics off the wash u website (Southwestern link - Denison link) as well as the game write-ups- things that they did not mention that might be of interest would include
- WUSTL FC played both games in a 4-3-3 alignment. The top 6 did a great job, particularly in the Denison game, of applying pressure on the ball in the offensive and middle 3rd resulting in a huge number of turnovers on the part of both Southwestern and Denison. Harry Beddo, who scored twice on Friday, was playing the point up top. John hengel, who had a brace on Saturday (and came oh so close to a hat trick) was playing attacking midfielder. The passing had improved greatly over the lst couple of weeks and there were a number of 3 and 4 one touch pass sequences in both games.
-Our wings were able to consistently get in behind the defenders and send crosses thru the box. Pierre Hoppenot in particular consistently toasted his defensive counterparts. Peter Jebson (who is both a Doctor and a soccer coach for a competitive club) commented on Saturday that the we were created lots of chances but needed to do more "clinical finishing" I am taking this in a soccer (rather than a medical) context but our GPG averages as well as the percentage of shots on goal are moving up so progress is being made. Hopefully we are saving some goals for the UAA games. The defense looked steady throughout and John Smelcer had a key save in the first half against southwestern and Ryan had a great reflex save off a corner about two minutes after coming into the same game to preserve the shutout.
We were glad to be joined by Cindy Clarke in the stands (who cheers vociferously and made a point of calling out naughty numbers 14 and 10 for Denison (one of whom was carded) as they attempted to beat up the Bears) Celebrity sightings included Tom Kruse and Paul Neumann chatting together before the Denison game.
We had a lovely breakfast at Jimmy's on the Park and our 41 attendees included 14 players who had foregone sleep in favor of food. We got to meet several of the freshman and gave them a warm parental welcome them as part of WUSTL FC.
The Bears play again Thursday against Fontbonne and then on Sunday away at Bloomington, Illinois. The Schoens, Zenners and Neumanns will all be at the Sunday game so we will arrange for either twitter or phone calls and e mail updates for Sunday. I assume Jeff will twitter the Thursday night game.
I will work on a parent/team dinner on October 18 (between the Brandeis and NYU games) as it appears a lot of parents will be in town that weekend. If you know you are coming let me know via e mail so we can get a rough count on how many people we will have. if you don't know you are coming, check your calendars and try to join us in St Louis. Hope to see all of you soon.
Go WUSTL, Allez ours.
paul
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Sorry for the delay in the update but we came home to a city without power due to winds from the remnants of Hurricane Ike(which may take up to a week to restore) so schools and businesses are shut.
In any case on to the important stuff. The Bears had a great weekend with two shutouts in which they dominated play and played 24 players. We had parents of 15 players in attendance (representing 8 of the 17 states on our roster) and had a lovely time watching soccer. I think the Hendricksons get the furthest travel award coming in from LA but the Bruce Brege gets extra credit for coming in on a redeye via Chicago so probably got the most airline miles.You can pull the statistics off the wash u website (Southwestern link - Denison link) as well as the game write-ups- things that they did not mention that might be of interest would include- WUSTL FC played both games in a 4-3-3 alignment. The top 6 did a great job, particularly in the Denison game, of applying pressure on the ball in the offensive and middle 3rd resulting in a huge number of turnovers on the part of both Southwestern and Denison. Harry Beddo, who scored twice on Friday, was playing the point up top. John hengel, who had a brace on Saturday (and came oh so close to a hat trick) was playing attacking midfielder. The passing had improved greatly over the lst couple of weeks and there were a number of 3 and 4 one touch pass sequences in both games.
-Our wings were able to consistently get in behind the defenders and send crosses thru the box. Pierre Hoppenot in particular consistently toasted his defensive counterparts. Peter Jebson (who is both a Doctor and a soccer coach for a competitive club) commented on Saturday that the we were created lots of chances but needed to do more "clinical finishing" I am taking this in a soccer (rather than a medical) context but our GPG averages as well as the percentage of shots on goal are moving up so progress is being made. Hopefully we are saving some goals for the UAA games. The defense looked steady throughout and John Smelcer had a key save in the first half against southwestern and Ryan had a great reflex save off a corner about two minutes after coming into the same game to preserve the shutout. We had a lovely breakfast at Jimmy's on the Park and our 41 attendees included 14 players who had foregone sleep in favor of food. We got to meet several of the freshman and gave them a warm parental welcome them as part of WUSTL FC.The Bears play again Thursday against Fontbonne and then on Sunday away at Bloomington, Illinois. The Schoens, Zenners and Neumanns will all be at the Sunday game so we will arrange for either twitter or phone calls and e mail updates for Sunday. I assume Jeff will twitter the Thursday night game.
I will work on a parent/team dinner on October 18 (between the Brandeis and NYU games) as it appears a lot of parents will be in town that weekend. If you know you are coming let me know via e mail so we can get a rough count on how many people we will have. if you don't know you are coming, check your calendars and try to join us in St Louis. Hope to see all of you soon.Go WUSTL, Allez ours.
paul
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And let me add, Congrats to Johnny Hengel, who clearly felt the pressure to perform in front of almost his whole family last weekend and accordingly was named UAA Player of the Week. The Hengels will have to attend all future games, obviously, and will have to tell their daughter, who is playing soccer at Creighton that she is on her own from now on.
Sheldon
To see all the photos form the Southwestern game, click here.
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