Loudonville, NY – Looking to rebound from a three-game losing skid, Siena Men's Soccer returns home to the Siena Turf Field to host MAAC leader Fairfield Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. The Saints, who sit in a tie for eighth in the latest league standings, look to pick up ground in league play as the season continues. The match will be webstreamed online at SienaAllAccess.com.
Today's match can be viewed by logging on to SienaAllAccess.com. Viewers can catch all the action online for $7.95 via their laptops, desktops, and tablets, as well as on iOS (Apple) devices including those that support Adobe Flash 10.1 or greater (Android devices). Special features to the Siena All-Access platform include live stats, and pertinent related twitter and ticker updates. Additionally, all games are archived upon their conclusion and can viewed at any time thereafter through the on-demand feature.
Siena (3-7-3, 2-3) dropped a tough conference road match in overtime last week, falling to Quinnipiac, 1-0 on Oct. 10. Freshman goalkeeper
Greg Monroe collected five saves as the team hold up defensively against 18 shots in regulation to force extra time, their fifth such contest of the 2018 season.
Birgir Thorsteinsson and
Tim Ugo steadied the squad offensively, with each firing off a pair of shots.
The team continues to be led by freshman
Aaron Martin, who has three of goals and a pair assists to his name 13 games into his rookie season. The Madrid, Spain native is the first Siena player to receive MAAC Rookie of the Week honors three times in a season, doing to on Aug. 27, Sept. 3 and Oct. 1. Helping the Green and Gold to stand tied for first in the league in saves (66), Monroe played in-goal for the entirety of the team's last 11 contests, amounting a 1.53 goals-against-average and a .750 save percentage on the season.
Riding a five-game winning streak into Wednesday's contest, Fairfield (8-4, 5-0) stands alone as the only undefeated team in league on the year. The defending MAAC champions have outscored conference opponents 14-5 thus fa and have seen two players pick up conference weekly honors. Leading goal-scorer Diego Casielles (four) took home Offensive Player of The Week on Sept. 10, while Cormac Pike was named the MAAC Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 8.
Competing against each other as conference opponents regularly since 1990, the Stags hold a 18-7-5 advantage in the all-time series. The teams played to a 1-1 draw in last season's meeting, with
Alejandro Riquelme netting the Saints' lone goal in the Fairfield, Connecticut-based affair.
