Pirates Begin Road Swing at Temple on Monday

Monday, August 29

Philadelphia, Pa.

7 PM

Seton Hall University

Temple

8/29/2022 11:36:00 AM | Men's Soccer

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South Orange, N.J. – The Seton Hall men's soccer team hits the road for the first time this season on Monday night as they travel to Philadelphia to face Temple at 7 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
The Pirates opened the season with a 3-0 win over Rider at Owen T. Carroll Field on Thursday night. Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany), JP Marin (Briarwood, N.Y.) and Mattias Almeida Sundell (Sweden) each collected first half goals en route to the victory. Seton Hall controlled possession throughout the match, and held a 16-4 advantage in total shots as well as a 10-1 edge in shots on goal.

NON-CONFERENCE TESTS
The Pirates face a tough slate of six non-conference matches to begin the 2022 season, four of which will be away from home. Of those six non-league foes, five of them finished last season with a winning record. The toughest early season test for the Pirates will be a trip out west to face No. 5 Oregon State, a team that entered last year's NCAA Tournament as the top overall seed. This year, the Pirates will take on five teams who finished inside the top-25 in RPI last season (Oregon State: 2, Georgetown: 4, Providence: 14, Creighton: 17, Villanova: 23). The Pirates will also face seven teams that reached the NCAA Tournament in 2021, all of which won at least one match.

The Hall will be facing some of the top teams in the country this season. Along with preseason No. 5 Oregon State, the Pirates also have preseason No. 2 Georgetown on their conference slate. This marks the first time since 2010 that Seton Hall will face two preseason top-five teams in the United Soccer Coaches rankings in the same season.

SCOUTING TEMPLE (2-12-2, 0-10-0 AMERICAN IN 2021)

Temple claimed victory in its season opener, defeating Lehigh 1-0 on Thursday night
Yann Kouemi scored the lone goal of the match in the 7^th minute
Seton Hall and Temple met to open last season, playing to a 0-0 draw in South Orange
The Pirates lead the all-time series 3-1-1, with their lone loss coming all the way back in 1929. Seton Hall's three wins came in consecutive seasons from 1986-88, with each season culminating in a BIG EAST Championship

NEWS & NOTES

The Pirates are in search of their first 2-0-0 start to a season since 2018, Lindberg's first season at the helm of the program
Seton Hall is unbeaten in road-openers in each of the last two seasons, drawing NJIT in the 2020 season before defeating NC State away from home last season.
Liam Guske started and played all 90 minutes in his collegiate debut on Thursday, becoming the first Seton Hall freshman to do so in a season-opener since Eden O'Leary in 2019
Andreas Lindberg sits just three wins away from 200 for his career.
With Thursday's win, the Pirates remain unbeaten in season openers since Lindberg took over prior to the 2018 season, boasting a 3-0-2 record. In those matches, Seton Hall is outscoring opponents 14-4.
Three Pirates return to the pitch in 2022 as graduate students, as All-BIG EAST Third Team honoree Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) joins JP Marin (Briarwood, N.Y.) and Paavo Riihijarvi (Oulu, Finland). The trio combined for seven goals and 18 points during the 2021 season.
Fellow All-BIG EAST Third Teamer Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany) enters his senior season, fresh off a campaign where he led the Pirates offensively with five goals, five assists and 15 points.
Fourteen different Pirates found the back of the next last season. Of that group, nine of them return for the 2022 season.
This season's roster boasts 12 freshmen, the most since the 2018 team which also featured 12 freshmen.
The Pirates also welcome in a pair of transfers: junior Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) from Palm Beach Atlantic, and sophomore Tyler Hutchinson (Cliffside Park, N.J.) from Clemson