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Kansas City Notes

• The Roos remain on the road Friday for their second game in a three-game homestand, taking on three-straight Missouri Valley Conference foes. KC will go head-to-head with Northern Illinois for the first meeting between the two teams since 2007.
• Kansas City is coming off of a 3-2 victory over Missouri State on Monday, just the fifth win over the Bears in 31 meetings and the first since a 1-0 win in 2010.
• Julien Le Bourdoulous logged his first two points of the year on Monday, assisting on Kansas City’s second and third goals. He was the Roos’ leading assist man in 2023 and has played the most minutes out of any Roo outfielder so far this season at 336.
• All three of Kansas City’s goals on Monday were scored in the form of a header. While there is no official data for most goals scored by header in the KC Roos record book, one would imagine that three is pretty close to a program single-game record.
• The Roos switched up their starting lineup for the first time against the Bears, with Raphael Kistmann, Sora Shibata and Fernando Somolinos Bravo all earning their first starts in the Kansas City Blue and Gold.
• KC has done well to create shooting opportunities throughout the first four games of the year, averaging 11.25 shot attempts per game. That mark is second-best in the Summit League and trails Omaha by just 0.25.

Northern Illinois Notes 

• The Huskies enter Friday’s matchup with a 1-3-0 record having lost back-to-back games at the hands of Memphis and Green Bay.
• Their lone win came over Chicago State on Aug. 25, a 4-2 win. It marks the only time so far this season that the Huskies have scored multiple goals in a game.
• NIU has scored six goals so far this season and has six different goal scorers.
• These two teams have met three times in the past, with Northern Illinois leading the series 2-0-1.
• The last meeting came on Sep. 14, 2007, a 2-2 draw. It marked the only decision that the Roos have earned against the Huskies.