Concord Stats -
Notre Dame Stats -
Wesleyan Stats -
Live Stats (Notre Dame) -
Live Stats (Wesleyan) -
Live Video (Notre Dame) -
Live Video (Wesleyan)
ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's soccer team hosts Notre Dame 3:30 p.m. Thursday before traveling to West Virginia Wesleyan 1:00 p.m. Sunday.
LIVE COVERAGE
The Concord University and West Virginia Wesleyan Sports Information Departments will provide live in-game statistics and live video for each game. To access the live coverage, follow the links at the top of the page or click
here.
RECORDS
The Mountain Lions are 2-9-1 this season and 2-4 in the Mountain East Conference.
Notre Dame is 7-4 overall and 5-3 against league competition.
West Virginia Wesleyan enters play with a mark of 7-4-2 and 6-2 in the MEC.
MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
Last time, Concord fell to the number-one ranked team in the nation in Charleston, 3-0, at Anderson Field.
Sunday was just the second time this season that CU hasn't had a game decided by one goal. Both instances have come against Charleston.
The Mountain Lions have had some close calls this season including one-goal losses versus Wesleyan and Notre Dame. In fact, two of the last three contests between Concord and WVWC have been decided by one goal.
CU's win last year versus the Bobcats was in overtime while Wesleyan didn't score the go-ahead goal in the first meeting this year until the final 10 minutes of the game.
Concord lost 1-0 to Notre Dame on the road on September 17. Freshman goalkeeper
Kyle Brown made six saves while junior goalkeeper
Michael Adedigba stopped three of the four shots he had come his way.
In a non-conference game last week at Chowan, sophomore forward
Sam Ashton scored his team-leading sixth goal. Ashton is one goal away from matching his season total from 2016.
One of Ashton's six goals this season came on a penalty kick versus WVWC when the teams got together September 20. After the Bobcats tied the contest late in the first half, redshirt freshman defender
Khal Clary recorded his first career goal early in the second half.
Concord limited Notre Dame last season when the teams met at Anderson Field in the final game of the season for the Mountain Lions.
Sophomore defender
Pedro Bassin scored the lone goal for CU on an assist from senior midfielder
Yacouba Issa Traore. It appeared the Mountain Lions would knock off NDC, but the Falcons got a late goal from Leonardo Paiva as the game ended in a tie.
CU's backline defense Bassin, junior
Xander Bailey, senior
Dean Byrne and then-senior
Jared Garlow limited Notre Dame to three shots on goal in the game.
NOTRE DAME AT A GLANCE
Paiva has scored exactly half of the NDC goals, eight of 16.
Daniele De Angelis did not face a shot on goal when Concord traveled to Notre Dame earlier this season.
WESLEYAN AT A GLANCE
Juwon Akintunde and Paul Smith have combined for 21 of the 36 goals for the Bobcats. Smith scored two goals versus Concord in the first meeting.
Wesleyan is 4-2 at home this season.
Â
Â
Â
Â
