Soccer Back at Home to Host No. 5 Marshall

BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Florida Atlantic University men's soccer team (6-1-2, 1-0-2 in Conference USA) looks to stay undefeated in C-USA play, as the team hosts defending College Cup National Champions, No. 5 Marshall (6-1-3, 1-0-2 C-USA). First touch is set for 7 p.m. at FAU Soccer Stadium in what is FAU's biggest test of the season.

About the Owls

FAU has won or drawn in their last five matches, beginning the season 6-1-2 with an undefeated 1-0-2 league mark. The team looks to carry the momentum when they host the defending National Champions
Filip Jauk leads the team with six goals, which is tied for the league's most. He also has a team's best 12 points
Luis Sailer Fidalgo leads the Owls with six assists, tied for the most in the league. The sophomore is ranked No. 7 in the country in assists per game (0.75)
Neil Strauber has started in all nine matches in goal to accumulate 849 minutes. He has started 21 straight matches in goal, while posting a 1.17 goals against average, 36 saves and two shutouts
FAU is tied for third in the C-USA standings with five points
The Owls average 2.33 goals per game, while holding the opposition to 1.22 per game. FAU also outshoots opponents, 105-91
FAU was projected to finish sixth out of nine teams in the C-USA Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league's head coaches
Alonso Coello Camarero and Ivan Mykhailenko were tabbed to the 14-person C-USA Preseason Team
The team has nine newcomers with 15 different countries being represented on the roster

About the Herd

No. 5 Marshall is 6-1-3 and comes into the match with an identical 1-0-2 league mark as FAU
The Herd were the heavy favorite in the C-USA Preseason Poll, projected to win the conference with a unanimous nine first-place votes
Marshall had five representatives on the 14-person Preseason Team: Vitor Dias (midfielder), Nathan Dossantos (defender), Max Schneider (midfielder), Oliver Semmle (goalkeeper) and Milo Yosef (forward)
Dias was tabbed the Preseason Offensive Player of the Year, while Dossantos was named the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year
Pedro Dolabella leads the team with six goals, four assists and 16 points. Vinicius Fernandes has a team's most six assists, while also tallying five goals for 16 points so far
Semmle is picking up from where he left off after leading C-USA and the nation with 11 shutouts a season ago. The senior posts a 1.05 goals against average, 31 saves and four cleansheets

Match History

FAU and Marshall are even in the series, 5-5-1
The Owls and Herd have won every other year from 2015 on
FAU held tough at the eventual College Cup Champions home field last year, but fell 1-0
In 2019, the Owls upset the Herd 1-0 in overtime off a game-winning goal from Ivan Mykhailenko on a penalty kick

Last Time on the Pitch

FAU drew with South Carolina, 2-2 last Sunday to pick up a point in the C-USA standings
Jauk recorded his sixth goal of the year in the 18th minute off an assist from Davide Romeo
The Owls pulled ahead at the 67th minute off Mykhailenko's fifth goal of the year, which was assisted by Sailer Fidalgo
FAU's lead was short-lived as the Gamecocks tied at the 74th minute and neither team could find the back of the net through the remainder of the match

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FAU Record Book Watch

Jauk

T-8th – Consecutive matches with a goal (3)

Mykhailenko

T-2nd – Career game-winning goals (8)
T-8th – Career goals (18)
11th – Career all-time points (39)

Sailer Fidalgo

T-2nd – Consecutive matches with an assist (3)

Strauber

T-5th – Career shutouts (6)
T-6th – Career goalie wins (11)

On Top – C-USA Statistical Rankings

Abrahamsson

T-8th in C-USA – Assists per game (0.333)

Alastuey

T-9th in C-USA – Goals (4)

Jauk

T-1st in C-USA/24th in NCAA – Goals (6)
2nd in C-USA/19th in NCAA – Goals per game (0.67)
T-6th in C-USA – Points per game (1.33)
7th in C-USA – Shots per game (2.44)
T-8th in C-USA – Game-winning goals per game (.222)

Mykhailenko

1st in C-USA/15th in NCAA – Goals per game (0.71)
T-3rd in C-USA – Goals (5)
T-4th in C-USA – Game-winning goals per game (.286)
5th in C-USA – Points per game (1.43)
6th in C-USA – Shots on goal per game (1.5)

Romeo

T-8th in C-USA – Assists per game (0.333)

Sailer Fidalgo

T-1st in C-USA/7th in NCAA – Assists per game (0.750)

Strauber

1st in C-USA – Saves (36)
5th in C-USA – Goals Against Average (1.17)

Team

1st in C-USA/8th in NCAA – Assists per game (2.67)
2nd in C-USA/15th in NCAA – Points per game (7.33)
T-2nd in C-USA – Saves per game (4.11)

Up Next

FAU will hit the road for a midweek matchup at Stetson on Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. Live stats can be followed here.

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