No. 3 Texas Tech women\u2019s soccer will focus on defense inside the box against No. 7 University of Colorado Boulder at 8 p.m. Thursday in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n
Tech head coach Tom Stone said the team needs to be prepared to go up against Colorado inside the box because of the Buffaloes’ poise in that area.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey (Colorado) serve the box the whole game,\u201d Stone said. \u201cThey’re going to make you be good box defenders.\u201d<\/p>\n
The box refers to an 18-by-44-foot area in front of each goal, as outlined in the NCAA soccer rule book.<\/p>\n
All five of the goals Tech has given up during conference play were scored from inside the box, according to game footage from the Big 12 YouTube channel.<\/p>\n
Twelve of the 14 goals Colorado scored during conference play were scored from inside the box, according to game footage from the Big 12 YouTube channel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re going to make your goalkeeper be strong in the air,\u201d Stone said.<\/p>\n
Both goals Tech allowed against Arizona State University on Thursday were near the top of the goal, requiring senior goalkeeper Faith Nyguen to jump in order to save the ball.<\/p>\n
Tech senior goalkeeper Faith Nyguen allowed nine goals across the 16 games that have been played.<\/p>\n
Colorado is 5-1-2 in conference play. Its single loss came from then-No. 20 Baylor University. Tech beat Baylor 1-0 on Sept. 19 and is undefeated in conference play.<\/p>\n
Following its game against Colorado, Tech will return home for a game against Kansas State University at 1 p.m. Sunday at the John Walker Soccer Complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 3 Texas Tech women\u2019s soccer will focus on defense inside the box against No. 7 University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,154,7066],"class_list":["post-17978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sports","tag-womens_soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}