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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.”