No. 8 Pirates Look to Rebound Against Lehigh - Seton Hall University Athletics
The No. 8 ranked Seton Hall men's soccer looks to rebound from its first loss of the season when Lehigh travels to Owen T. Carroll Field Tuesday at 6:56 p.m....
South Orange, N.J. - The No. 8 ranked Seton Hall men's soccer looks to rebound from its first loss of the season when Lehigh travels to Owen T. Carroll Field Tuesday at 6:56 p.m. This is the final game of non-conference play for the Pirates this season.
The game will be broadcast on the Pirate Sports Network via FloSports, which requires a subscription. A discounted subscription is available through this link.
This is the 6th all-time meeting between the two teams, the most recent of which occurred in 2019.
SERIES HISTORY
- Seton Hall and Lehigh last met on September 14, 2019, in an early-season affair. The Pirates and Mountain Hawks played a scoreless first half in which Eden O'Leary and Vittorio Argeri were unable to convert their first half goal chances. In the 50th minute, Lehigh's Josh Luchini blasted a rebounding corner kick past the goalkeeper to put the Mountain Hawks up 1-0. The Pirates only had one shot on goal the remaining 40 minutes, ending the match in a 1-0 loss.
- This is the 6th meeting between the two programs, the first of which came in 1996.
- Seton Hall is 2-3-0 all-time against Lehigh, with a 1-2-0 record in their last three meetings.
- On Friday, the Pirates visited Chapey Field at Anderson Stadium to play Providence in the first game of BIG EAST play for the season. The Pirates fell shorts in the match, losing 1-0.
- In the 71st minute, a Jared Smith (Longmeadow, Mass.) service into the box nearly found its way into the goal off of a streaking Pirate's head, but Friars' goalie saved the equalizing opportunity.
- In the 84th minute, Jack Kossoudji drew a penalty kick after being fouled in the penalty box. Virgil Dall'Agnol (Grenoble, France) took to the spot for the attempt, but the conversion was not successful.
- Seton Hall is now 14-19-7 all-time against Providence.
- Seton Hall is ranked No. 8 in the nation in the Sept. 17 United Soccer Coaches top-25, up five spots from their ranking a week prior. Their ranking is the highest they have held during a non-abbreviated season since the 2002 season when they received the No. 6 spot in the September 2, 2002 poll.
- In head coach Andreas Lindberg's tenure, Seton Hall appeared in the United Soccer Coaches top-25 seven times during the 2020 season, reaching as high as No. 6. Then Seton Hall spent four weeks in the national rankings during 2021.
- The Pirates are one of two BIG EAST teams in the current top-25, joining No. 25 University of Connecticut.
- Jack Kossoudji, a graduate transfer from Capital University, was named BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week. Kossoudji began the week by assisting on what proved to be the game-winning goal, in Seton Hall's 3-1 road win at Rutgers. Against Harvard, Kossoudji logged an assist and scored the game-winning goal in The Hall's 3-2 victory over the Crimson.
- Til Kauschke, freshman midfielder from Hamburg, Germany, was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Week for the second time this season. Early in the week, Kauschke provided an assist in The Hall's 3-1 victory over Rutgers. He followed that up with second goal of the season in the team's 3-2 win over Harvard.
- Seton Hall has shown outstanding depth so far through six matches:
- Nine different players have scored a goal
- Nine different players have assisted on a goal
- 14 different players have put a shot on goal
- Both goalkeepers who have played have recorded a clean sheet
- Six different players have earned a BIG EAST weekly honor
