DePaul Drops Match Against Butler, 3-1

Saturday, October 13

Wish Field

1:00 P.M. CT

DePaul University

Butler

10/13/2018 4:00:00 PM | MEN'S SOCCER

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de Bruijne scores his second goal of the season

CHICAGO - The DePaul men's soccer team dropped a 3-1 decision against Butler Saturday at Wish Field. The Blue Demons' lone goal was scored by defender Max de Bruijne - his second of the season. DePaul sits at 4-7-2 overall and 1-3-1 in BIG EAST play.

How it Happened
After an energetic first half that saw four shots apiece, DePaul struck first in the 59^th minute. Zach El-Shafei sent a free kick over to Jake Fuderer, who sent it in before it bounced back to him. He headed the ball to Jack Richards who headed towards de Bruijne who sent it in for the goal. After a DePaul handball in the box, the Bulldogs evened it up at 1 in the 67^th minute. Logan Lee scored his first goal of the season for Butler just six minutes later in the 87^thbefore by Brandon Guhl added an insurance goal in the 86^th minute for his seventh of the season.

Key Numbers
11...Both DePaul and Butler each fired off 14 shots, five on goal for the Blue Demons.
3...Saves by sophomore Drew Nuelle in goal.
2...Max de Bruijne's second goal of the season.

Notes
...Blue Demons are 0-1-2 in October.
...This is only the second game DePaul has given up three goals this season.
...First time in five games the Blue Demons have scored before their opponent.
...Freshman Jack Richards has had both a goal and an assist in the last two games.
...Freshman Jake Fuderer has had two consecutive games with an assist.

Quotes
Head coach Mark Plotkin

On the positive outcome of Saturday's match...
"Max scored a goal. I thought the guys fought well for 60 minutes or so to earn the goal to keep it 0-0 at half. I think we just let the penalty kick call get in our heads a little bit and struggle to fight back after we gave that one back to get ourselves back on track and realize what was working and get back to the plan. Butler's a really good team; when you give them those opportunities, they're going to be able to score. They haven't had a lot of success in the last few seasons for no reason. It was disappointing with the result but you can find some positives in there."

What he wants to improve on for next week's matchup at St. John's...
"I think just clearing things up a little bit more defensively and just working on our response in those situations. We have to realize that we are a good team, and when we have it all together we can beat anybody. When you start to implode a little internally, that's when things go bad and I think that's a little bit of what happened today and Butler punished us for it."

On his message to the team...
"I just told them that there's still four BIG EAST games left, there's plenty of points to play. The BIG EAST this year is completely jumbled. We're just looking for that one playoff spot and if we can manage to get some results in the next few games, we're definitely going to be playing post-season play. We just have to take it one game at a tame and take care of our chances going forward."

Senior captain Harry Hilling

What the team learned from Saturday's match...
"The biggest takeaway is just responding to adversity. We were up a goal there and it was an unfortunate call. Obviously it was tied up 1-1 but just making sure we keep battling through that. That's what Coach touched on right there at the end -- there's a lot of points still there to pick up, so you have to battle through adversity."

On what they can improve on after the match against Butler...
"Improving is just getting back to what we're doing: playing our game, putting a full 90 minutes together. We had stints where we looked really good there against Butler and then a portion where we kinda fell off and they took it to us so just putting the full 90 together and playing our game."

Up Next
DePaul makes a visit to St. John's next Saturday, Oct. 20. Kickoff is set for 6:00 p.m in Queens. The match will be broadcast on the BEDN.

Quick Scouting the Red Storm (6-5-1, 2-1-1)
St. John's fell to Princeton earlier this week in a 1-0 match before they return to BIG EAST play Saturday for their match against Marquette. Matt Forster leads the squad with 5 goals, Skage Simonsen has four and Tani Oluwaseyi has tallied 4 so far this season. In goal, Lenny Wilson (4-2-1) has played seven games with 26 saves and 3 shutouts while Tyron Matuta (2-3-0) has played five games with a goals against average of 1.00 and 17 saves.

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