Tuesday, October 31
Conway, S.C.
7 P.M. ET
Coastal Carolina University
vs
Georgia State
Men’s Soccer Closes Regular Season Versus Georgia State
10/30/2023 10:19:00 PM | Men's Soccer
CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina men's soccer team will close its regular season versus the Georgia State Panthers at the CCU Soccer Stadium on Tuesday night. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. ET.
Chant Talk
Chant Talk
- This is Coastal's last match of the regular season, and the Chanticleers require a win to keep their hopes of making the Sun Belt Conference tournament alive.
- CCU has a 3-8-3, 1-5-2 Sun Belt record this year.
- The Chants matched their season-high three goals versus USC on Friday. The last time CCU tallied three was in its 3-2 victory over No. 12 JMU on Sept. 23.
- Coastal is looking to close out the season on a high and snap its four-match losing streak.
- Doug Hainer is tied for fifth in the Sun Belt with four assists on the season.
- Coastal suffered a 4-3 defeat to USC on Friday night after a last-minute winner from the Gamecocks destroyed CCU's hopes of a tie.
- The Chants conceded the first goal in the 10th minute when a clearance attempt from Robert Valdimarsson found the back of his own net to give USC a 1-0 lead.
- Junior Noe Santos tied the match in the 23rd minute off assists from Hainer and Eythor Kjartansson to make the score 1-1.
- USC regained the lead in the 57th minute when Jordan Illian headed the ball into the far post to put the Gamecocks up 2-1.
- South Carolina extended its lead to 3-1 in the 72nd minute but CCU answered back with a goal from Deryn Armstrong less than 30 seconds later to narrow the gap to 3-2.
- Kjartansson looked like he was going to be Coastal's hero in the 87th minute when he belted a free kick into the top left corner to level the score at 3-3.
- It was not meant to be for the Chants. With 34 seconds left on the clock, USC's Illian chipped in his second goal of the match to give the Gamecocks a 4-3 victory.
- CCU has an 11-6-3 record versus Georgia State.
- In their last 10 matchups, the record stands at 3-4-3.
- Kjartansson tallied two assists when Coastal last faced the Panthers in October 2022 and the match resulted in a 2-2 draw.
- Over the course of their 20 encounters, the Chants have outscored the Panthers 35-31 and have delivered five shutout wins.
- Coastal will look to improve on its 5-3-0 home record versus the Panthers on Tuesday.
- Georgia State has a 5-6-5, 2-4-2 Sun Belt record.
- The Panthers place seventh in the Sun Belt Conference standings.
- Simon Carlson and Ethan Sassine each lead the team with six goals on the season which ranks them tied for fifth in the conference.
- The Panthers have picked up two conference wins over South Carolina (Sept. 22) and Georgia Southern (Oct. 13).
- GSU narrowly missed out against No. 2 UCF in its last matchup after fighting back from a 3-0 deficit to make the score 3-2.
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