Pirates Conclude Road Swing at Fairleigh Dickinson on Friday
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Pirates Conclude Road Swing at Fairleigh Dickinson on Friday - Seton Hall University Athletics
South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer continues its non-conference road swing on Friday night against Fairleigh Dickinson. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m....
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South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer continues its non-conference road swing on Friday night against Fairleigh Dickinson. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at University Stadium in Teaneck.
LAST TIME OUT
Seton Hall fell on the road to Portland (RV), 3-1, on Monday night. The Pilots notched an early goal in the seventh minute to grab a lead, but the Pirates later equalized on a penalty kick goal from Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France). Portland's attack proved to be too much in the second half, as the hosts found the back of the net twice late to take home the win.
BE THE BEST, BEAT THE BEST
The Pirates face a tough slate of six non-conference matches to begin the 2022 season, four of which will be away from home. Of those six non-league foes, five of them finished last season with a winning record. This year, the Pirates will take on five teams who finished inside the top-25 in RPI last season (Oregon State: 2, Georgetown: 4, Providence: 14, Creighton: 17, Villanova: 23). The Pirates will also face seven teams that reached the NCAA Tournament in 2021, all of which won at least one match.
The Hall will be facing some of the top teams in the country this season. Along with preseason No. 5 Oregon State, the Pirates also have preseason No. 2 Georgetown on their conference slate. This marks the first time since 2010 that Seton Hall will face two preseason top-five teams in the United Soccer Coaches rankings in the same season.
SCOUTING FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON (2-1-1 THIS SEASON; 8-7-3 / 6-1-2 IN 2021)
- FDU was picked to finish third in the NEC Preseason Poll.
- The Knights are coming off a 2-1 defeat to UMBC, and have scored exactly one goal in their first four matches of the season.
- Welcome back a pair of All-Conference performers in Jordan Alonge and Hugo Bacharach, as well as reigning NEC Rookie of the Year Tony Gomez.
- This will be the 33rd all-time meeting between the New Jersey schools, with Seton Hall holding a 15-13-4 edge. The Pirates took a 2-0 victory in their last meeting during the 2020 season (played in the spring of 2021).
- FDU is seeking its first win over Seton Hall since 2001, and just its second since 1968.
- Head Coach Andreas Lindberg sits just two wins away from 200 for his career.
- Seton Hall has won its last four matches, and 13 of its last 14, when scoring the first goal.
- The Pirates are unbeaten in their last seven matches against New Jersey schools, going 6-0-1 in those matchups.
- This will be Seton Hall's first trip to FDU since 2002, when the two sides played to a 1-1 draw.
- The win over Oregon State was the Pirates' first over a top-10 team in the United Soccer Coaches rankings since beating No. 2 Georgetown to win the BIG EAST title on Apr. 17, 2021. The win also marked the first time Seton Hall has defeated a top-10 non-conference foe on the road since winning at No. 3 Virginia in the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
- The Pirates conceded just one goal through its first three matches of the season, the program's best defensive start to a season since 2005.
- Luca Dahn has played wire-to-wire in each of his last 11 matches dating back to last season, and has also done so in 37 of his 39 career matches.
- Three Pirates return to the pitch in 2022 as graduate students, as All-BIG EAST Third Team honoree Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) joins JP Marin (Briarwood, N.Y.) and Paavo Riihijarvi (Oulu, Finland). The trio combined for seven goals and 18 points during the 2021 season.
- Fellow All-BIG EAST Third Teamer Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany) enters his senior season, fresh off a campaign where he led the Pirates offensively with five goals, five assists and 15 points.
- Fourteen different Pirates found the back of the next last season. Of that group, nine of them return for the 2022 season.
- This season's roster boasts 12 freshmen, the most since the 2018 team which featured the same number.
- The Pirates also welcome in a pair of transfers: junior Quenzi Huerman from Palm Beach Atlantic, and sophomore Tyler Hutchinson (Cliffside Park, N.J.) from Clemson
The match will be available to watch live on NEC Front Row. A link to the live stream can be found here.