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

• 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.

Last Time Out

• 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.

History Against

• 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.

Scouting the Opponent

• 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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