ALBANY, N.Y. – After securing their first victory of the season over Penn last week, the University at Albany men's soccer program visits Big Ten opponent Rutgers for the first-ever meeting between the teams.
 
Game Info
Tuesday, September 13 at Rutgers (7:00 pm)
Live Stats
 
Leading the Pack

• UAlbany is 0-3-0 on the road this season; Rutgers is 1-0-2 at home
• Tuesday's is Rutgers' fourth of five-straight games at home
• Rutgers ranks eighth in the United Soccer Coaches North Regional poll
• UAlbany ranks tied for third in the America East in scoring defense

Scouting Rutgers
Rutgers is 2-1-2 overall this season with victories over Omaha and Rider.  The Scarlet Knights went 9-6-2 in 2021 and 3-4-1 in the Big Ten.  The nine victories were the highest a Rutgers team has accumulated since the 2015 season.  MD Myers leads Rutgers with five goals scored, while a total of six Scarlet Knights have found the back of the net.  Myers was named a player to watch by the Big Ten, alongside teammates Matthew Acosta and Jackson Temple, and the conference's coaches picked the Scarlet Knights to finish fifth in the preseason poll.  Rutgers returns 23 players from last season, including 12 who started eight or more games.
 
Last Time Out
The Great Danes secured their first victory of the season, knocking off Penn 1-0 off a penalty kick from Domenic Baumann.  The Quakers applied tremendous pressure throughout the game, limiting UAlbany to four total shots while taking 21 of their own, and winning 16 corner kicks and allowing UAlbany only one.
 
Around the America East
UMBC remains unbeaten at 4-0-1, followed by Vermont jumping into second at 3-1-1 after winning each of their last two.  NJIT is 2-2-1 in third, followed by New Hampshire, riding their own two-game winning streak at 2-2-0.  Bryant is the only other team in the conference with multiple victories at 2-3-0, followed by single-win teams in UAlbany and UMass Lowell at 1-3-1 each.  Binghamton remains winless at 0-4-1.  New Hampshire, national preseason #9, has fallen out of the United Soccer Coaches poll, but UMBC is now receiving votes and two spots out of the top-25, while Vermont and UMBC sit in the top-two spots in the Northeast Regional rankings, where the Wildcats are fourth.
 
Tuesday's America East Games

• Vermont at Cornell, 7:00 pm
• New Hampshire at Providence, 7:00 pm
• UMBC at Mount St. Mary's, 7:00 pm
• UAlbany at Rutgers, 7:00 pm

Defensive Player of the Week
Daniel Shannon recorded his first career shutout and victory as UAlbany's goalkeeper in the Great Danes' fifth game of the year when they hosted the Penn Quakers.  Shannon faced a total of 21 shots and made four saves to keep the Quakers off the board and hold the 1-0 lead to victory.  Shannon is UAlbany's first defensive player of the week since former teammate Carlos Tofern was named on September 7, 2021.
 
Three-for-Three
Through five games, UAlbany has scored three goals on the 2022 season.  Each goal came via penalty kick, first in the season opener against Boston University and second at Marist at the end of a three-game road swing.  Pantelis Panteli took each penalty kick for the Great Danes, making Panteli accountable for all UAlbany scoring through the early part of the season.  In the fifth game of the season, Domenic Baumann stepped in for Panteli on the Great Danes' PK against Penn and successfully converted the attempt, making UAlbany 3-3 on PKs this season.
 
International Flavor
Continuing a tradition within the UAlbany men's soccer program under head coach Trevor Gorman, the 2022 Great Danes feature a sizeable international roster.  Thirteen countries are represented among UAlbany's ranks this season: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.
 
New Faces
UAlbany welcomes 16 new players to the roster for the 2022 season, replacing 15 departures and bringing the team roster to a total of 30.  Though the Great Danes return second-leading scorer Andrew Weiner from last year, the members of the new class will fill in for the production left behind by the departures of the first, third, and fourth-leading scorers, a total of six goals and 11 assists.
 
Picked Fourth
After finishing the 2021 regular season third in the America East standings, the Great Danes were picked to finish fourth in the league's 2022 preseason coaches' poll.  Behind unanimous favorite New Hampshire, picked to win the league for the fourth-straight season, the distribution tightened up.  Defending tournament champion Vermont was picked second just two points ahead of third-pick UMBC, and five points ahead of UAlbany.  NJIT was picked fifth, ahead of Binghamton and UMass Lowell in a tie for sixth, with conference newcomer Bryant picked eighth.
 
Game Over
Adopted starting this season, regular-season matches will no longer go into extra time when tied at the conclusion of regulation.  The regular-seasons games will conclude after 90 minutes of play.  Overtime and shootouts will return starting in the postseason.
 
Next: UAlbany hosts Dartmouth on September 17.