RIVERDALE, N.Y. – The Manhattan men's soccer team will travel to Iona for the second time this season, this time to face off in the MAAC Championship Semifinal at 12 p.m. Thursday.
Fans can watch the game on ESPN+
HERE, and live stats can be followed
HERE.
These two teams met on Oct. 8, and Iona escaped the Jaspers with a 2-1 victory thanks to a Federico Russo goal in the 61st minute.
To get to the semifinals, the Green and White took down Fairfield at Gaelic Park on Sunday, 2-0. The Jaspers got goals from two of their all-conference players in,
Gunnar Studenhofft and
Ronaldo Da Silva.
The other All-MAAC selections also made sizable impacts in the match, most notably
Nassim Akki, the MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, who made a brilliant defensive save to preserve the shutout and keep the Stags from building any momentum in the second half to mount a comeback.
The winner of tomorrow's match will face off on Sunday with the other semifinal winner on Thursday between the top-seeded Bobcats of Quinnipiac and the Purple Eagles of Niagara. That match begins simultaneously with the Jaspers' battle with Iona.
