Pitt Continues Road Trip Friday at Wake Forest

PITTSBURGH – The No. 5 Pitt men's soccer team heads back on the road for the second of three-straight away from home as it faces Wake Forest Friday evening at 8 p.m. on ACCNX.

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THE SERIES – WAKE FOREST

The Demon Deacons have met the Panthers four times prior to Friday night, winning all four matches dating back to 2013.
These two teams last met Sept. 13, 2019 in Pittsburgh. Wake Forest, who was the No. 1 team in the country at the time, won 2-0.
Head Coach Jay Vidovich 0-2-0 all-time against Wake Forest.

SCOUTING THE DEMON DEACONS

Wake Forest enters the contest with a 2-2 overall record and 0-1 ACC mark.
Senior Kyle Holcomb leads the team in points with six, scoring two goals and tallying two assists.
Both Omar Hernandez and Chase Oliver have one goal and one assist each.
The Demon Deacons are sixth in the country in corner kicks per game, averaging 8.00 per match.
Wake Forest's wins include Bucknell (2-0) and Cornell (2-1 [2OT]), both of which were at home.

PITT EARNS ROAD VICTORY AT PENN STATE

Three days after defeating No. 4 North Carolina at home, Pitt traveled to University Park and defeated Penn State, 1-0, Monday, Sept. 13.
Rodrigo Almeida scored his fifth goal of the season and third in his last two games.
Jasper Löeffelsend and Arturo Ordoñez each tallied an assist on Almeida's goal. Löeffelsend left Penn State as the nation's leader in assists with five.
The victory in University Park was the first for the Panthers since 1966.

VIDOVICH RETURNS TO WINSTON-SALEM

Head Coach Jay Vidovich has totaled 320 career wins, which currently ranks 16th in the nation among active head coaches.
Prior to his arrival at Pitt in the winter of 2015, Vidovich was the head coach for Wake Forest for 21 seasons from 1994 to 2015. He totaled a 272-121-50 (.670) record while in Winston-Salem.
Among his accomplishments at Wake Forest was a national championship in 2007, guiding the Demon Deacons to a 22-2-2 record. Wake Forest made four consecutive College Cup appearances from 2006-09.
The trip to Spry Stadium is his second while at Pitt, the first being Sept. 16, 2017.

RODRIGOAL

Senior Rodrigo Almeida is having a career year so far in 2021, totaling five goals and a .636 shot percentage (7-for-11).
The midfielder scored a goal in Pitt's first two home matches (Duquesne, Lehigh) before recording the first multi-goal game of his career at home vs. North Carolina.
The Salvador, Brazil, native scored Pitt's lone goal against Penn State, proving to be the game-winner in a 1-0 shutout victory.
Almeida enters Wake Forest sixth in the nation - and first in the ACC - in total goals (five) and seventh in goals per game (1.00).

LAW-FULL-ZEND'S IT IN

Graduate student Jasper Löeffelsend (yas-pur Law-full-zend) finished the 2020-21 season as one of the best passers in the country and is keeping that status early on this season.
The Cologne, Germany, product leads the nation in assists (five) and is 11th in assists per game (.83).
The defender recorded his first assist of the year at West Virginia and followed that match up with two at home vs. Lehigh.
Löeffelsend has tallied an assist in each of his last two matches, including North Carolina at home and Penn State on the road.
In just 25 career games, he is tied for third all-time in career assists with 14.

UP NEXT

Pitt closes out its three-match road trip at Clemson Saturday, Sept. 25 at nationally ranked Clemson.
It is a rematch of last year's ACC Tournament Championship.
Kick-off is set for 7 p.m. on ACCNX.

Pitt Continues Road Trip Friday at Wake Forest

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Rodrigo Almeida

Arturo Ordoñez

Pitt Continues Road Trip Friday at Wake Forest

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Rodrigo Almeida

Arturo Ordoñez

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