It’s kind of insane that Marquette men’s soccer is 2-0-2 to start the season.
They kind of had no business winning the North Florida game even if they badly outshot the Ospreys. They had to drag themselves to a scoreless draw against Bradley after playing with 10 men for over 75 minutes. They straight up should not have gone to a draw with Drake. I was at that match. When they went down to 10 men after giving up the goal that put Drake up 3-2 with less than 20 minutes left, it seemed clear by the next
10 minutes that they were not going to solve this riddle. And then Mitchell Dryden did solve it off of what was kind of a lucky rebound straight to him.
I guess the old saying “you’d rather be lucky than good” applies here? Maybe even “fake it til you make it,” because as a result of Justin Milovanov’s straight red card in the opener and Andreas Fotland’s pair of yellows against Drake, we can say that Marquette has yet to play a full 90 minutes this season utilizing the full set of players on the field that head coach David Korn thinks gives his team the best chance to win. Four matches, still not playing with a full deck for an entire match.
And somehow, they haven’t lost a game yet. In defiance of all logic and common sense and expectation, honestly.
The Golden Eagles have had nearly a full week off since beating Chicago State 4-0 back on Sunday. They should be well rested, and Fotland will be back from his red card suspension. Marquette’s next match after this one won’t be til next Saturday, and then after that, they don’t play again until the following Friday. May as well go all out with lots of time to recover between now and next week, right? Maybe we finally get to see the full powers of this battle station.
Match #5: vs Wisconsin Badgers (2-2-0)
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2025
Time: 7pm Central
Location: Valley Fields, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Marquette is 19-33-11 all time against Wisconsin. You can argue that the series is tilting in Marquette’s favor over the last 13 years. Since their meeting in September 2010, Marquette holds a record of 7-6-1, which is really good considering that it took Marquette 20 years to record their first seven wins over the Badgers. With that said, Wisconsin did pick up the 2-1 win last year in their building.
I don’t think Wisconsin has liked how their season has gone so far. Remember when Marquette scored two last minute goals to beat North Florida in the opening weekend of the season in a match they outshot the Ospreys 20-5? Yeah, so, UNF spent the entire weekend in Wisconsin after beating the Badgers 1-0 in their opener. That goal came in the 36th minute in a first half that ended with shots going 2-1 in UNF’s favor. 10-3 for the Badgers after halftime, but nothing doing in the goals department.
They won their next two, cracking Bradley 4-1 and only giving up the one goal in the 85th minute on a penalty kick before scoring their fourth in the 87th. Next time out was a 1-0 win over Western Michigan where UW scored in the 68th and ended up outshot 10-7 mostly because of a Broncos advantage in the first half. Last time out? Yeah, the Badgers gave up a 71st minute goal to Portland and got outshot 13-6 by the Pilots. Sure, Portland’s 4-0-0 on the year after that win and moved into the United Soccer Coaches top 25 as a result. I don’t think that’s comforting Wisconsin all that much.
Bart Muns is Wisconsin’s top goal scorer at the moment and the only Badger with more than one goal this season. He tallied twice in the Bradley match and got the lone goal against Western Michigan. That means Badgers Not Named Bart Muns haven’t scored a goal in over 197 minutes, and they haven’t scored a non-penalty kick goal in more 230 minutes. Fun! Well, fun from a certain point of view.
Matisse Hebert has played every minute in net this season for Wisconsin, and honestly, he’s doing just fine thanks to those 1-0 losses. 0.75 goals given up per 90 minutes of action, and he’s stopping over 81% of shots on frame. Given that Wisconsin’s mostly even on the season in terms of shots for and against, UW’s real problems are in the goal scoring department and not so much on the defending side of things. Marquette’s objective will be to keep the former going and change the latter, of course.
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