Time is running out in the Maryland men’s soccer team’s season, and entering Tuesday night’s game against the No. 7-ranked Denver Pioneers, a signature win was nowhere to be found on the Terrapins’ tournament resume.
Defending Andre Shinyashiki, the nation’s leading goal-scorer, is an unenviable task for even the best of teams, and head coach Sasho Cirovski knew that containing him was crucial to the Terps’ chances of pulling off the upset.
“We wanted to make sure our two defensive midfielders, Eli and Andrew, knew where he was over their shoulder,” Cirovski said. “We also wanted to make sure we had what I call a plus-one, we needed to have an extra guy around him.