COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou soccer returns home to Audrey J. Walton Stadium to host Texas A&M on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. CT. The match marks the 30th meeting between the programs, with Missouri trailing in the all-time series, 6-20-4. Missouri has found home more favorable, with four of its six all-time wins over the Aggies coming in Columbia, though Texas A&M took the most recent meeting 2-1 in College Station on Oct. 16, 2025.

PRE-MATCH PRESS
-Missouri returns home to host Texas A&M on Thursday, its first match at Audrey J. Walton Stadium in nearly two weeks.
-The Tigers split a two-match road trip, earning their first SEC win 3-0 at Ole Miss before a 2-0 loss at Georgia.
-Texas A&M enters winless in SEC play at 0-7-1, having allowed a league-worst 2.13 goals per game.
-Senior goalkeepers Riley Wilkerson (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) and Kate Phillips (Fishers, Ind.) give Missouri one of the SEC’s top save rates and the league’s only goalkeeping tandem to each start multiple matches while both posting a .722-or-better save percentage.
-Missouri’s attack has been a group effort, with 18 goals from seven different scorers and four Tigers posting a multi-goal game, a total matched only by Vanderbilt in the SEC.
-Freshmen have powered the attack, with Lana Adams (Perryville, Mo.) leading the team in goals and Rylie Morse (Lebanon, Ohio) pacing it in assists.
-The Tigers have done their best work after the break, scoring two-thirds of their goals in the second half.
-Senior Brianna Buels (Indianapolis, Ind.) owns the fastest goal in program history, 14 seconds into the win at Murray State, and has been the Tigers’ most accurate shooter at 14 of 19 on target.
-Thursday’s match kicks off at 8 p.m. CT at Audrey J. Walton Stadium and will air on SEC Network, with live stats and in-match updates available at MUTigers.com and on X at @MizzouSoccer.

SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
-Texas A&M enters at 4-10-1 (0-7-1 SEC), winless in conference play and coming off a 4-3 home loss to LSU on Oct. 18.
-The Aggies’ lone league point came in a scoreless draw with No. 6 South Carolina, and they have allowed a league-worst 2.13 goals per game this season.
-Forward Ireland Churchill paces the attack with nine goals and 21 points and leads the SEC with 74 shots, while Trinity Buchanan has added seven goals and 18 points.
-Texas A&M has been among the league’s most penalized teams, with 18 yellow cards and four red cards.

LAST TIME OUT
-Missouri fell 2-0 at Georgia on Sunday, Oct. 18, at Turner Soccer Complex, three days after a 3-0 win at Ole Miss, and sits at 4-9-2 (1-6-1 SEC).
-Both Georgia goals came in the second half.
-Wilkerson made six saves in goal for the Tigers.

THROUGH THE GAUNTLET
-Missouri drew one of the SEC’s toughest opening stretches, facing Oklahoma, Kentucky, Auburn, South Carolina, Arkansas and No. 3 Vanderbilt to begin league play.
-Every one of those six opponents except Kentucky was subsequently ranked in the IWSOC Coaches Poll following the match.
-The Tigers earned their first league win with a 3-0 shutout at Ole Miss before a 2-0 loss at Georgia, and they close the regular season at home against Texas A&M and LSU.

FIRST STRIKE
-Missouri is a perfect 4-0-0 this season when it scores the game’s first goal.
-When the opponent strikes first, the Tigers are 0-9-1, with their lone point coming in the draw at Arkansas.
-Their only scoreless draw was a 0-0 result at Western Kentucky.

SECOND-HALF TIGERS
-Twelve of Missouri’s 18 goals have come in the second half, where the Tigers have outscored opponents 12-7.
-The Tigers have been outscored 11-6 before the break but have generated more offense late, taking 99 of their 170 shots in second halves.

BY THE NUMBERS
-Missouri ranks third in the SEC in saves per game (3.87).
-The Tigers have out-cornered their opponents 81-74 on the season.
-Missouri has put 42.9 percent of its shots on target.

SPREADING IT AROUND
-Missouri’s 18 goals have come from seven different scorers.
-Adams leads the team with four goals, while Morse, Landis Canada (Fenton, Mich.), Buels and Emily Derucki (Wildwood, Mo.) have three apiece.
-Buels has been the most accurate of the group, putting 14 of her 19 attempts on target (.737).
-Derucki leads the team with two game-winners, and Canada and Adams have each added one.
-Four different Tigers have posted a multi-goal game this season, tying Vanderbilt for the most such players in the SEC.

STRENGTH IN GOAL
-Missouri has leaned on an experienced senior tandem in goal, with Wilkerson and Phillips combining for 57 saves through 15 matches.
-Wilkerson leads the team with 35 saves and has made 10 starts, including two shutouts.
-Phillips owns a .786 save percentage and holds two of the SEC’s top single-game saves performances, an eight-save effort against Auburn and seven against Saint Louis.
-Missouri is the only SEC team with two goalkeepers who have each started multiple matches and both carry a save percentage of .722 or better.

FRESHMEN FLASHES
-Freshmen have been central to the attack, led by Morse, who has three goals and a team-high three assists.
-Morse scored the first two goals of her career on Senior Night against SEMO, a 5-0 win in which Adams added a first-half brace.
-Freshman Petra Bandula (Oakville, Ontario) has also chipped in a goal off the bench.

ANCHORED IN THE BACK
-Center backs Morgan Meador (Ballwin, Mo.) and Mia Yang (Leawood, Kan.) have been fixtures, with Meador starting all 15 matches and Yang 14 across the back line.
-Missouri has recorded four shutouts, including its first in SEC play in the 3-0 win at Ole Miss, after blanking Western Kentucky, Northern Illinois and SEMO in non-conference play.

SHOW-ME STATE
-Missouri’s 2026 roster features 10 in-state players, continuing one of the most home-grown stretches in program history.
-It marks just the second time the program has carried 10 or more Missourians in three or more consecutive seasons (2024-26), with the only other run coming across Mizzou’s first five seasons (1996-2000).
-The Tigers set a program record with 15 Missouri natives on the 2025 roster.

HOME COOKING
-Mizzou drew a program-record 2,324 fans to the renovated Audrey J. Walton Stadium in the home opener against Saint Louis, making Missouri one of eight programs nationally to host 2,000-plus fans in at least two home matches.
-The renovation, funded by a gift from Audrey J. Walton (one of the 10 largest in Mizzou Athletics history and the largest ever dedicated to Olympic sports), added a new natural grass playing surface and subsurface improvements.

EYES ON THE POSTSEASON
-The SEC Tournament, set for Nov. 8-15 in Pensacola, Fla., takes the top 12 of the league’s 16 teams.
-Missouri enters the final week 14th at 1-6-1 (four points), with two home matches remaining, Texas A&M on Thursday and LSU on Nov. 1.
-The Tigers are still alive but have no margin, as a loss in either match or a pair of draws would eliminate them.
-With the top 10 already out of reach, Missouri is playing for the final two spots against LSU (eight points), Florida (eight) and Tennessee (six). Texas A&M and Ole Miss cannot pass the Tigers.

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