Men's Soccer Travels to UAlbany on Friday Evening

UMBC stopped a five-game losing streak with a 1-1 draw at RSP on Saturday evening against UNH.
Junior defender Jojo Ocran scored a game-tying goal with 19 minutes remaining after the Retrievers trailed 1-0 at the half.
The Retrievers intensified their efforts in the final 45 minutes. They applied significant pressure, particularly in the last 20 minutes of the match.
The Dawgs earned nine of their 12 corner kicks in the second half and finally capitalized in the 71st minute. Senior forward Kofi Amoah (first career assist) delivered an accurate left-footed ball to the back post, where Ocran leaped and headed it just inside the left post from close range for his first career tally.
The Retrievers are now 3-3-1 at Retriever Soccer Park this season with only one more home game remaining on the regular-season schedule.
Junior Brady Geho is eighth in the league in points (.80 per game).
Senior goalie Emigdio Tormo Lopez ranks fourth in the conference with a 1.000 goals against average and is 5^th with a .773 save percentage.

About the Opponent

UAlbany is coming off a 5-0 loss against No. 3 Bryant last Friday evening in Smithfield, Rhode Island. The game was scoreless for 62 minutes until the Bulldogs scored four times in a span of 4:08.
The Great Danes are 2-1-1 on Bob Ford Field this season.
Opponents have outscored UAlbany by a 15-11 margin this season.
Ivar Orri Gissurarson is fifth in the league in points per game (.82) with four goals and an assist.
Rodrigo Hermelo has contributed two goals and three assists (7 points).
Andre Navas is tied for the team-lead with three assists.

All-Time Series History

UMBC is 10-9-5 all-time against the Great Danes
The Dawgs are 2-6-3 in games played in Albany.
UMBC is 2-2-1 over their last five contests in the series.
Last season, UAlbany came away with a 3-2 victory in Baltimore as the Great Danes scored three goals in the first 19:29 and held on for the win. Alex Wroblewski and Matteo Samori scored goals in the first 4:08 of the second half, but the Retrievers were unable to net the equalizer despite outshooting the visitors by a 15-3 margin in the second half.

Next
UMBC travels to George Washington on Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.

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