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The No. 8 Mid-America Christian men's soccer team put up a dominant second half performance by scoring four goals in the final 27 minutes as the Evangels cruised to a 5-0 victory at Friends in Adair-Austin Stadium on Tuesday night.

 

SCORING SUMMARY

• 1st Half – MACU – 33:54 – Goal: Luan Cesar (1), Assist: Rodrigo Albuquerque – MACU 1, FRND 0
• 2nd Half – MACU – 62:58 – Goal: Ricardo Ferreira (2), Assist: Luan Cesar – MACU 2, FRND 0
• 2nd Half – MACU – 75:42 – Goal: Cesar Ramirez (1), Assist: Uviwe Qasha – MACU 3, FRND 0
• 2nd Half – MACU – 76:50 – Goal: Georg Westerlund (2), Assist: Jack Price – MACU 4, FRND 0
• 2nd Half – MACU – 80:28 – Goal: Ricardo Ferreira (3), Assist: Jack Price, Uviwe Qasha – MACU 5, FRND 0

MATCH SUMMARY

• Friends put together a pair of early opportunities in the ninth and 10th minutes, but MACU goalkeeper Jeremi Abonnel made a pair of stops to keep the Falcons off the board.
• With 11:06 to go in the first half, Luan Cesar put the Evangels in-front. After a right side cross came into the right side of the box, Rodrigo Albuquerque flicked the ball over the defender before tapping a pass out of congestion to an open Luan Cesar. With no one contesting, Cesar powered a shot from 16-yards out to the right post, bringing the score to 1-nil.
• Mid-America Christian came up with its first of many insurance goals in the 63rd minute. On the play, Luan Cesar won the ball from 30 yards out on the right side before slipping a pass to Ricardo Ferreira breaking toward the right post. From 10-yards out, Ferreira blasted the open breakaway toward the top left corner to make it a 2-0 game.
• In the last 15 minutes of the half, the Evangels pushed across three more insurance goals, including a pair within 1:08 of each other. In the 76th minute, Uviwe Qasha found Cesar Ramirez breaking down the left side as Ramirez pelted a six-yard, well-placed shot into the top left corner out of the reach of the keeper, setting the score to 3-0.
• A minute later, MACU took advantage of another Falcons breakdown as Rodrigo Ferreira sent a pass on ahead to Jack Price breaking down toward the middle. Price dribbled around a defender before dishing a pass to Georg Westerlund on the left side of the box. From eight yards out, Westerlund blasted an open shot to the top left of frame, expanding the Evangels' edge to 4-0.
• With just over 10 minutes left, the Evangels added one more goal for good measure. After Qasha relayed a pass to the middle of the field for Price before delivering it to an open breaking Ricardo Ferreira. With only the keeper to contest with, Ferreira slipped a 14-yarder past the keeper trying to collapse at the point of attack, putting it just inside the right post to seal the 5-nil final.

MATCH NOTES

• Mid-America Christian outshot the Falcons by a 19-10 with an 11-4 edge in shots on-goal. After Friends doubled up MACU in shots 8-4 in the first half, the Evangels dominated the final 45 by a 15-2 margin.
• Luan Cesar's 34th minute score was his first goal of the season and his first game-winner of the year. It was the second game-winner of his three-year Evangels career.
• By scoring two goals in the contest, Ricardo Ferreira moved into a tie with Rodrigo Albuquerque for the team's goals lead with three apiece. Both Albuquerque and Ferreira also lead the squad in points with seven each.
• By Jack Price and Uviwe Qasha each tallying a pair of assists in the contest, the two moved into the team lead as Price has four while Qasha has three dimes on the year.
• Georg Westerlund's 77th minute goal was his second of the season while Cesar Ramirez's preceding goal was his first of the campaign.
• MACU has now scored five goals in each of the last two games after defeating McPherson (Kan.) 5-0 on Friday, Aug. 26.
• With the clean sheet, the Evangels have not conceded a goal through the first 270 minutes of the season and have outscored the opposition 13-0.
• The shutout for sophomore goalkeeper Jeremi Abonnel was his third of the year and his seventh of his young Evangels career. Abonnel finished with a season-high four saves in-goal.
• The win over Friends was the fourth straight against the Falcons while MACU has scored five goals in each of the last three meetings.

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