MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia men’s soccer team fell to Dayton 2-0 on Saturday night at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
“We didn’t play well enough to win,” WVU coach Marlon LeBlanc said. “We were wasteful in front of the goal on the attacking side of things, and we literally just missed the target too often and got punished on dead balls. We’re not good enough to miss as many chances as what we missed tonight and still win. We have to be a little bit better in the final third. At the end of the day, we got what we deserved. A lot of times you feel like you’re the better team and let one get away. Tonight, we weren’t the better team and didn’t deserve to win.”
Dayton (3-4) opened the scoring in the 65th minute on a goal from Wariebi Jituboh. Less than two minutes later, the Flyers struck again as Toluwalase Oladeinbo found a header goal to make it 2-0.
WVU (4-2-1) nearly opened the game with a goal in the ninth minute, when senior defender Albert Andres-Llop sent a low cross into the middle of the box. However, no Mountaineers were near enough to connect with it in front of the goal.
Dayton outshot West Virginia 13-11 while the Mountaineers held a 7-4 advantage in corner kicks.
West Virginia will take on Ohio State at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Columbus.
