Make it 2 for her

Geczik again. 2-0

Beauty goal.

Goal. So glad they didn't call offsides.

hows the possesion. for me thats the big difference this year versus years past

We are controlling possession. UT packing it in on D giving us some room. We have lacked movement at times allowing them to mark us and limiting our ability to do anything.

Couple chances from UT. Crossbar saves us on one chance, defender cleared it from 6 on the other.

Game clock on the stream was wrong. I was wondering why we weren't trying to move forward with so little time left.

2-0 Ags at the half

Their clock doesn't even work. What a tragic production.

Every time when they play on the road on SEC plus I'm like let's see how the production goes here.

Ours is good from camera angles, zooming in, replays, and getting the crowd noise. Ellis Field is just top notch from the crowd environment compared to the other SEC schools.

UT's coach is an all american when it comes to whining. With 11 minutes to go in the first UT was called for a foul in the center circle and a UT player kicked to ball halfway to our goal to slow us down. Shouldn't that be a card? Same of our passes from our back line are pretty bad. In the first 10 seconds Kolb had a bad pass that forced Burbank to make a save.

the more college soccer i watch the better ellis looks

This is.a lot like watching a WC qualifier from Panama

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UT's coach is an all american when it comes to whining. With 11 minutes to go in the first UT was called for a foul in the center circle and a UT player kicked to ball halfway to our goal to slow us down. Shouldn't that be a card? Same of our passes from our back line are pretty bad. In the first 10 seconds Kolb had a bad pass that forced Burbank to make a save.

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I saw that and that could have been a terrible way to start if UT had scored right away. It took a while but A&M started playing better.

UT defenders were caught flat footed on the second goal. Geczik didn't start her run until well after Sample kicked the ball.

Drinking game - two shots every time the word "dynamic" is used.

Sweet header for a goal.

That was a BEAUTIFUL goal. The assist and the finish. Perfect.

This year's team is fun to watch! It's so nice to see us winning the ball all over the field all game long.

I'm just rooting for continuing the series shutout streak at this point

This ref loves the yellow card.

Camera work a little dizzying.

The streaming production stinks. Evwry time they switch cameras it goes dark fir about 3 seconds.

That blows, 3-1 now.

Defense fell asleep. Had 2 girls on the ball and nobody stepped in the stop her...

Nice breakthrough in Knoxville.

Over?

We won.

Laney Carroll should get an assist on the goal by McCain. She hustled to the corner and made the defender kick the ball over the end line. The goal came after the corner was deflected out to Ziemer who put the ball right on Addie's head. Wonder why UT waited so long to get aggressive offensively. They must have been worried about our counterattack. I thought Taylor Ziemer was really good tonight in midfield in front of the back line. It seemed like she was collecting everything.

First, it was nice to finally beat Tennessee after an abysmal record against them over the years. The Vols have embarrassed A&M the last several games in blowout fashion, but tonight A&M was simply too much in the middle of the field and outclassed them with talent almost across the board. Also, it was difficult to follow much of the match because of the junior high production quality, a truly ridiculous streaming broadcast by the Vols athletic department. Have they ever heard of zooming in to see the action? We are spoiled at A&M. But a few thoughts anyway:

Carroll did return tonight but it was clear she is not 100% yet. Doesn't have the same speed on the ball as the first game, although she did have a few good maneuvers in the box to set up some crosses. I really think we should either leave Olivieri up top along with her, or Geczik needs to start in place of Russell. Geczik took advantage of her limited minutes tonight and played well, scoring 2 goals. While Russell is quick, she sometimes struggles with possession and isn't really a scorer, which is kind of the point of an attacking player. The first goal by Geczik was obviously a fluke goal on a mistake by the GK, but she was in position to take advantage of it. The second goal was really well played off a long through ball by Sample off a corner and it hit Geczik in stride behind the defense and she made a nice move on the GK and buried it. The final goal was a really nice goal for McCain off a header in the box, something she has struggled with at times this season, but she hit it perfectly this time off a great cross by Ziemer.

The box formation was clogged up in the opening 20 minutes or so as the Vols did a good job of pressing and attacking our backs with the ball and causing some chaos there. Also the midfield didn't really have the movement needed to make quick passes work in traffic, but when they started slotting some long balls forward, it opened up the field and the Vols backed off a bit. The rest of the game was pretty much domination of possession, which we've become accustomed to seeing now from this group. Olivieri was okay tonight, but I'd still rather see her more forward in the attack. Ziemer had another strong game the defensive mid position and is starting to really emerge for us this season.

The back line was good up the middle with Sample having a strong effort. Smith didn't seem quite as solid but certainly not a bad game. We need to get Lopez wide more often to let her cross the ball in the box. Let her play to her strengths. Kolb had some errant passes tonight that could have been costly. And it was good to see Burbank get the start and she played well, except the goal given up late can't rebound off her like that for the easy tap in, although the defense in front of her got a bit lazy in their defending off a long ball.

The team did seem to take the foot off the gas in the last 20 minutes and it cost us a goal. But can't complain about a 3-1 win on the road. Coach Penski is a big whiner and deserved that yellow card tonight. That was nice to see. This is a fun to watch and we score a lot of goals. The scary thing is that we can get even better going forward if we finish some more chances in front of goal.

As always HiddenAg, great write-up. Totally agree on some of our bad passes. It reminds me of a QB who passes up the easy, wide-open pass and instead forces a low percentage longer pass into double coverage. Had the Vols converted on a few of those, this game could have ended in a tie or worse. Overall though, the team looked great and really excited about the future given the production from they younger players.