The Marquette women’s soccer season got started on Thursday night. While it’s a long season, the first match of the campaign was decided pretty early. Thanks to a pair of goals in the first eight minutes, two goals just 44 seconds apart, put #15 Notre Dame up 2-0. That first goal was enough, and thanks to an 18-1 shot advantage, the Irish held off Marquette and handed them the 3-0 defeat.
Let’s take a look at the goals and see if there was really anything Marquette could have done about them.
First one, from Olivia Wingate, in the 7th minute:
Yeah, that’s not the kind of defense you want to see in the first 10 minutes against the #16 team in the country.