No. 4 Penn State will look to enhance its case for making the School Soccer Playoff when it visits Minnesota in a Huge Ten encounter in Minneapolis on Saturday.
A aggressive schedule could be making ready the Nittany Lions (9-1, 6-1 Huge Ten) for the playoffs, however coach James Franklin stays targeted solely on the Golden Gophers this week.
“As , I do not love to speak about an entire lot greater than Minnesota and the crew that we’re enjoying this week,” Franklin stated. “I am completely targeted, and I need our crew to be completely targeted on Minnesota.
“If I begin speaking about issues apart from Minnesota, then so do our coaches and so do the gamers, and we lose focus, after which we come out and do not play nicely.”
Truthful sufficient, however let us take a look at the place Penn State has been of late. The Nittany Lions answered a 20-13 setback to Ohio State on Nov. 2 with convincing victories over Washington and Purdue.
Drew Allar threw three touchdowns and tight finish Tyler Warren had each a receiving and dashing rating in Penn State’s 49-10 romp over the Boilermakers final Saturday.
Warren reeled in eight catches for 127 yards and rushed thrice for 63 yards. His fourth profession 100-yard receiving sport tied Ted Kwalick (1966-68) for the college file amongst tight ends.
“Tyler Warren had a reasonably excessive draft grade final yr, got here again, and I believe it has been a win-win,” Franklin stated of Warren, who was named the Huge Ten Offensive Participant of the Week for the second time this season.
“I believe he’ll be the primary tight finish drafted, is having an ideal yr, is having a ton of enjoyable along with his teammates, and that is what you need, proper? You need it to be an ideal state of affairs for everyone.”
Minnesota (6-4, 4-3) noticed its four-game profitable streak come to a halt with a 26-19 setback to Rutgers on Nov. 9. Former Golden Gophers quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis threw three touchdowns in opposition to his former crew to steer the Scarlet Knights.
Fortunately for Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck, the crew had two weeks to rebound from that setback.
“Two bye weeks is de facto useful for a soccer crew, mentally, bodily and emotionally, for his or her well being,” Fleck stated. “Seasons are getting longer. I believe our guys did a extremely good job of that. Not solely that. We needed to get higher on the issues we wanted to get higher at. Some self-scout. Nevertheless it gave us much more time to work on Penn State as nicely and get a jump-start on that.
“I believed we had a extremely productive week of not solely engaged on Penn State, working forward, engaged on ourselves.”
Darius Taylor rushed for a landing in his fourth straight sport however was held to simply 28 yards on the bottom.
Max Brosmer is finishing 67.1 p.c of his passes for two,251 yards with 14 touchdowns and 4 interceptions.
–Area Degree Media
