It’s been the same old song and dance for the Florida Gators soccer team.
Becky Burleigh’s Florida Gators have been sitting comfortably for quite a long time.
What happens when a stoppable force meets a movable object?
UF’s ghost has returned to haunt it just in time for Halloween.
It appears the demise of UF’s scoreless streak has been greatly exaggerated.
Florida’s 2018 soccer season would look a lot like Sunday’s 1-0 loss at No. 12 South Carolina if it could be boiled down to one game.
The Volunteers didn’t take long to make their mark.
The only constant in the Gators’ offense has been inconsistency.
Maybe it was the long bus ride. Maybe it was the Mississippi State defense. Maybe it was the absence of two of its best players.
The Gators have scored 10 goals in their past two games after going on a six-game scoreless streak earlier in the year. Florida is riding the momentum for the moment, but a certain team from Starkville, Mississippi, may just be the test UF needs to entirely confirm that reports of the Gators’ demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Florida’s offense is making up for lost time.
Lais Araujo may have been the player to snap the Gators’ scoreless streak against Vanderbilt, but a heartbreaking loss left her unsatisfied with the feat.
Coach Becky Burleigh insisted that her Florida team would be starting with a clean slate as it headed into SEC play before its match against Vanderbilt on Sunday.
The net behind Vanderbilt goalkeeper Taiana Tolleson gently swished. The interlacing nylon in front of Florida’s offense hadn’t so much as shivered in its previous 677 minutes and 14 seconds.
UF soccer suffered its fifth straight shutout on Friday night in Tallahassee after which coach Becky Burleigh remarked that the “universe” would eventually reward her team.
Midfielder Parker Roberts said ahead of tonight’s game that “defense wins championships.” As UF has now remained entirely scoreless since August 19th, the team’s offense is still struggling to discover how to merely win matches.
There are few college showdowns that evoke passion and ire like the longstanding conflict between Florida and Florida State.
Florida soccer made history on Sunday, but not the kind that would warrant a press release.
Death, taxes and a scoreless Gators offense.
The Gators, however, didn’t fare any better on the scoreboard. Lackluster offense and stellar defense were the only two takeaways in a scoreless draw between the Bruins (2-1-0) and the Gators (2-1-2) on Friday.
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