WNCC coach Todd Rasnic said it is becoming old in looking at the shooting disparities.
“We had 14 shots on goal and you can’t win soccer matches unless you are finishing your opportunities,” he said. “We certainly weren’t doing that today and we haven’t done it in the last couple of games. We have out shot our opponents and quite honestly until it changes, we are going to have a difficult go of it.”
The Cougars definitely had many, many opportunities to score goals and they had shots all day long at the net. Right off the bat, the Cougars Austin Albers and Austin Roy had golden scoring opportunities, but couldn’t convert.
Then, it was Cloud County’s Alberto Navel-Gimeno who netted the first goal as he scored just seven minutes into the match. Ten minutes later, Enrique Becerra put Cloud County up 2-0 as he hammered a shot in the top right corner with 27:04 left in the half.
WNCC, however, continued hammering away at shots on goal. The Cougars had a prime scoring opportunity with 10 minutes to go in the half as Jesus Duque delivered a pass to Lazaro Torres, who hammered one to the goal. Cloud goal keeper Jose Ocampo went vertical and with one arm extended, pushed the ball outside the frame of the net.
The Cougars, who had seven scoring opportunities in the first half, had nine more in the second half. WNCC’s offensive attack started early as Albers missed on three shots and then Tony Rocha had a shot that just missed.
WNCC also had one shot that that hit the front of the goal and bounce back into play, and then had three shots on goal with under eight minutes to play.
In the meantime, the Thunderbirds added another goal at the 14:13 mark as Navel-Gimeno scored on a shot that sailed over the head of Cougar goal keeper Juan Sanchez.
WNCC had five corner kicks to Cloud County’s three. Cloud County’s goal keepers Ocampo and Julio Tovelin had 12 saves compared to just one for WNCC’s goal keepers Sanchez and Cesar Bazana.
Rasnic said that finishing goals will be an emphasize in practice this week.
“I think they will improve. We have a lot of freshmen that are learning the ropes out here and learning to play in this type of system,” he said. “We are continuing to be hopeful that they will step up to the challenge and start finishing well. The other team had four shots on goal and put three of them in the back of the net. We have to be a team that performs that way. Unfortunately we weren’t that team today. We will keep working and will do some finishing work this week.”
The Cougar men (3-4) will be back in action Monday as they host Northwest (Wyo.) College beginning at 5 p.m. at the Landers Soccer Complex.
“We have a game [Monday] against Northwest Wyoming so hopefully we will see some of those things corrected by tomorrow evening,” Rasnic said. “Hopefully we will get a good crowd for that game and perform to the level that we should be performing.”
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