I am going to start this week’s entry by talking about Dominic Pereira.
I gave him a huge amount of flak in the early parts of this season. I repeatedly said that he struggles with claiming crosses and dominating his penalty area. That wasn’t a wrong observation, but I mentioned it basically every week for the first month of this column. When both Pereira and Geno Cervoni were having lackluster performances, I said that Russell Payne had a “goalkeeper crisis” on his hands. I essentially blamed the Sophomore for most of the goals NU conceded up until about the Xavier game.