NC State Begins Three-Match Road Stint at Longwood Tuesday Night

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RALEIGH – NC State men's soccer (4-3-1) will make the trip to Farmville, Va., on Tuesday night to take on Longwood (2-4-1) in what is the first of three-straight road matches for the Wolfpack. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. from the Longwood Athletics Complex, and the match will be streamed live on ESPN+.

A WIN TUESDAY WOULD
• Be the 536th win in program history (535-466-103)
• Be the 197th win in head coach George Kiefer's career (196-117-66)
• Be Kiefer's 35th victory at NC State (34-31-15)
• Be NC State's fifth in a row over Longwood

SERIES HISTORY (NC State leads 5-0-1)
• Tuesday marks the seventh overall meeting between NC State and Longwood. The series between the two teams dates back to 2005.
• The squads played each other three seasons in a row (2017, 2018, 2019) before pausing in 2020 with schedule changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• NC State remains unbeaten against Longwood. The teams tied 1-1 in a September 2007 matchup, and the Wolfpack has won each of the other five games.
• Five of the six matches between the teams have been played on NC State's home field. NC State is 4-0-1 in those games.
• NC State last faced off against Longwood in September 2019. The Pack earned the 1-0 victory in a match during which it owned the advantage in overall shots (18-3) and shots on target (8-1). Pablo Pedregosa was the goal scorer in that matchup.

LAST TIME OUT
• NC State earned its first point of ACC play in a hard-fought battle with Wake Forest on Friday night. The match ended in a 1-1 draw after 110 minutes.
• Wolfpack senior Alex Hernandez scored his first NC State goal in the 71st minute. A corner kick bobbled around in the box and eventually found Kuda Muskwe. Muskwe got a shot off that was saved by a deflection off a Wake Forest player, but the ball bounced to Hernandez who hit it on a half volley into the top of the net.
• Wake Forest got the equalizer just 39 seconds later, and neither team scored again in a game that extended through two overtime periods.
• NC State owned the 56-44 advantage in possession and out-shot Wake Forest 15-11.

TRACKING THE PACK (4-3-1, 0-2-1 ACC)
• The Pack's 105 shot attempts have been distributed among 16 different players, led by 21 strikes from Henrique Santos.
• Santos ranks in a tie for sixth in the league with his average of 2.63 shots per game.
• Eight different players have found the back of the net in 2021.
• As a team, NC State's 1.13 goals allowed per game is the fifth-lowest number in the ACC. The Pack ranks fourth in the league with its 3.13 saves per game.

STRENGTH IN THE PACK
The depth of NC State's 2021 squad has been on full display in the early season. The Pack has gone with a different starting lineup in each of its first eight games, and a total of 24 players (22 field players, 2 goalkeepers) have seen time on the field this year. Eleven of those players have tallied either a goal or an assist this season.

COMING UP
NC State will make the short trip to Chapel Hill on Sunday, Oct. 3 to take on local rival North Carolina. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Dorrance Field, and the match will be nationally broadcast on the ACC Network.

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NC State Begins Three-Match Road Stint at Longwood Tuesday Night

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Alex Hernandez

Kuda Muskwe

Pablo Pedregosa

Henrique Santos