When Arizona soccer hosts No. 10 UCLA on Thursday, it will be a game of contrasting styles.
“I feel like they have more players that are technical, and I feel like we’re more of like an athletic, fast, work-hard, physical team,” said Arizona forward Jada Talley. “Sometimes when you put those matchups together, you don’t know what you’re going to get.”
But most of the time you do. In 25 games against UCLA, the Wildcats have lost 23 times. The only exceptions were a 1-0 win in 2004 and a 2-2 tie in 2017.
It is one of the most lopsided rivalries—if you can call it that—in the Pac-12 across all sports, but Arizona (6-2, 0-1) is hoping to buck the trend.