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8 — Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

MARK CALCAGNO
Daily Sports Editor

Michigan extends win streak to five

Sophomore forward Umar 
Farouk 
Osman 
netted 
two 
goals 
in 
a 
showing 
that 
propelled the Michigan men’s 
soccer team (1-0-0 Big Ten, 
5-1-0 overall) to a victory over 
Rutgers (0-1-0, 1-4-1), 2-0 on 
Friday night. Michigan coach 
Chaka Daley spoke glowingly 
of 
the 
Wolverines’ 
newest 
star after the game, who has 
already matched his scoring 
total from all of last season 
with four.
“He was definitely on the 
crest of the hill last year,” 
Daley said. “And now he’s 
growing leaps and bounds and 
getting some confidence by 
scoring a few goals. And as a 
result of that, it’s given him 
the confidence to shoot and 
take chances.”
Osman launched a booming 
kick from outside the box off a 
perfect pass from sophomore 
forward 
Mohammed 
Zakyi 
that curled into the top left 
corner of the net to give 
Michigan a 1-0 advantage in 
the 62nd minute.
“I looked up at the goal and 
just bended it, top corner,” 

Osman said when discussing 
the play.
 The Wolverines doubled 
their lead just four minutes 
later when Osman tapped in 
a ball that had been deflected 
by a Rutgers defender on a 
Michigan throw-in. While it 
wasn’t nearly as impressive as 
his first goal, it still gave the 
Wolverines 
a 
much-needed 
cushion as they were able 
to 
cruise 
for 
the rest of the 
match. 
While 
Michigan 
dominated 
the 
scoreboard, 
the game was 
not without its 
tough moments. 
Rutgers 
nearly 
had 
a 
chance 
to score on a 
corner attempt that clanked off 
the post, and the Wolverines 
struggled 
to 
get 
into 
an 
offensive 
rhythm 
despite 
controlling possession for the 
majority of the first half. 
“I think we’ve just shown 
great 
togetherness, 
great 
resiliency,” Daley said. “Every 
game they’ve had their tough 
moments, and I think they’ve 

just stuck together and we’ve 
been very unselfish. We’ve 
worked hard for each other, 
we compete for each other, and 
we’ve just found a way in each 
of these games.”
While Michigan has a five-
game win streak on paper, 
Daley and his squad truly 
only care about one win in 
their record: Rutgers. That 
one match marks the number 
of 
wins 
the 
Wolverines 
have in Big Ten 
play 
thus 
far, 
after 
starting 
conference 
play 
with 
a 
win in one of 
the 
toughest 
conferences 
in 
college soccer.
“The 
season 
starts over, and 
fortunately we’re 1-0,” Daley 
said. “We don’t worry (about) 
all the others, five in a row, 
that’s out of our system. We’re 
just 1-0, we’re just worried 
about the Big Ten right now. 
We’re 1-0 in the Big Ten, we 
have our noses in front, and we 
have a lot of work to do. It’s a 
long season and a lot of tough 
opponents ahead.”

CARTER FOX/Daily
Sophomore forward Umar Farouk Osman scored two goals in Michigan’s win over Rutgers on Friday night.

TEDDY GUTKIN
Daily Sports Writer

Umar Farouk Osman scores two goals in win over Rutgers

“He was 
definitely on 
the crest of the 
hill last year.”

Wolverines’ offense growing, used ‘half’ of playbook so far this season

The Michigan football team’s 
offense 
is 
already 
showing 
signs of improvement from a 
season ago.
Between 
three 
starting 
quarterbacks and an offensive 
line that couldn’t keep them 
upright, 
the 
Wolverines 
ranked among the Big Ten’s 
worst in yards-per-play, points 
and 
third-down 
conversion 
rate in 2017. Three games 
aren’t enough to start making 
statistical 
comparisons. 
But 
they’re plenty to see an elevated 
level of play. 
Just take Michigan’s second 
touchdown Saturday in its win 
over SMU. From the Mustangs 
seven 
yard-line, 
junior 
quarterback 
Shea 
Patterson 
lobbed a back-shoulder fade to 
sophomore receiver Donovan 

Peoples-Jones, who adjusted 
in mid-air to corral the pass. A 
completion of that difficultly 
simply 
wouldn’t 
have 
been 
made last season.
Instead, 
more 
simplistic 
throws 
were 
the 
concern. 
Even when Michigan’s young 
receivers 
got 
separation, 
passing 
opportunities 
were 
frequently 
either 
errant 
or 
not seen entirely because the 
quarterback was on his back. 
But Patterson has been mostly 
on the money in three starts 
so far, completing roughly 70 
percent of his passes for 589 
yards and six touchdowns.
“He’s getting out of trouble 
and 
creating 
plays 
when 
sometimes 
there 
isn’t 
one 
to be there,” said coach Jim 
Harbaugh following Saturday’s 
game. 
“He’s 
playing 
the 
position really well and making 
the throws when they present 

themselves. 
He’s 
hitting 
the short ones, he’s hitting 
the intermediate ones, he’s 
hitting the deep ones. Good 
quarterback play.”
Improved quarterback play 
hasn’t changed the Wolverines’ 
play-calling 
too 
much, 
though. Despite 
the 
departure 
of 
offensive 
coordinator 
Tim 
Drevno, 
Michigan 
has 
maintained 
a 
run-first 
approach to try 
to open passing 
opportunities. 
Per 
teamrankings.com, 
the 
Wolverines 
threw 
on 
42 
percent of their plays last year 
— their exact distribution so far 
in 2018.
Junior 
offensive 
guard 

Michael Onwenu does think 
Patterson has become more 
ingrained in the offense since 
fall camp, but he doesn’t expect 
Michigan to run an air-raid 
system anytime soon.
“Since 
we 
have 
a 
new 
quarterback, 
I 
think 
we’re 
incorporating 
him 
more,” 
Onwenu 
said. 
“I’m not saying 
we’re 
building 
the 
offense 
around him, but 
it’s meshing at a 
good time.”
Establishing 
an 
offensive 
identity takes time. What the 
Wolverines are calling now 
is different from what they’ll 
be able to run in November. 
After all, Harbaugh’s West 
Coast offense is known for 

its complexities, filled with 
variations that could fill an 
NFL playbook.
At times, it looked like 
too much for Michigan last 
season, especially given its 
quarterback turnover. That’s 
why, this fall, the Wolverines 
learned the playbook at a 
tempered pace.
“I wouldn’t say slower, but it’s 
definitely less,” Onwenu said. 
“Last year, we were installing 
about 10 plays every few days. 
Fast-forward 
to 
this 
year’s 
camp, and we’re installing basic 
plays that we already knew but 
are taking time to master.”
Re-learning 
plays 
makes 
sense considering the addition 
of 
Patterson. 
Coming 
from 
a spread offensive system at 
Mississippi, he wasn’t forced to 
learn a playbook as expansive 
as Harbaugh’s.

Michigan hasn’t either — yet. 
Onwenu said the Wolverines 
haven’t 
shown 
“half” 
its 
playbook through three games 
and are installing plays “week 
to week.”
“We definitely have a lot of 
weapons that we haven’t used 
yet,” Onwenu said. “We have so 
much more we can improve on.”
Time will tell what those 
weapons are. Michigan would 
certainly benefit from more 
explosiveness and plays down 
field. 
Still, 
with 
Patterson 
under center, the Wolverines 
are confident in their offense’s 
development.
“They got a high ceiling,” 
said junior linebacker Devin 
Bush. 
“They 
got 
a 
lot 
of 
playmakers over there that can 
do something with the ball in 
their hands. I think they’re 
getting better at what they do.”

ALEC COHEN/Daily
Junior offensive guard Michael Onwenu says Michigan’s offense can still improve greatly, and that they have shown less than half of their playbook so far.

“We have so 
much more we 
can improve 
on.”

