COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou soccer closes the regular season at home, hosting LSU on Sunday, Nov. 1, at noon CT at Audrey J. Walton Stadium. The match marks the 13th meeting between the programs, with LSU holding a 9-2-1 edge in the all-time series. Missouri has been more competitive in Columbia, going 2-2-1 at home against LSU, though Mizzou dropped the most recent meeting 1-0 in Baton Rouge on Oct. 2, 2025.

PRE-MATCH PRESS
-Missouri hosts LSU on Sunday in its regular-season finale at Audrey J. Walton Stadium.
-The Tigers come in off a 3-2 comeback win over Texas A&M, rallying from a two-goal deficit to move to 5-9-2 (2-6-1 SEC).
-With the SEC Tournament field set at the top 12 of the league’s 16 teams, Missouri enters the final day 13th and needs a win over LSU to earn a spot.
-LSU arrives at 4-9-4 (2-4-3 SEC) and sits one place ahead of Missouri in the standings, making Sunday effectively a play-in match.
-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 21 goals from seven different scorers and four Tigers posting a multi-goal game, a total matched only by Vanderbilt in the SEC.
-Freshman Rylie Morse (Lebanon, Ohio) leads the team in points and assists, and she, Lana Adams (Perryville, Mo.) and Brianna Buels (Indianapolis, Ind.) share the team lead with four goals apiece.
-The Tigers have done their best work after the break, scoring nearly two-thirds of their goals in the second half.
-Sunday’s match kicks off at noon 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
-LSU enters at 4-9-4 (2-4-3 SEC) and sits 12th in the league standings, one spot ahead of Missouri with a tournament berth of its own on the line.
-The opposing Tigers have been stronger away from Baton Rouge, going 3-4-0 on the road against 1-5-3 at home, and have drawn three of their nine SEC matches.
-Senior forward Ava Galligan leads LSU with seven goals and a team-high 52 shots, while goalkeeper Audur Scheving has made 44 saves.
-LSU is coached by Sian Hudson, in her seventh season, a year after guiding the program to its first NCAA Sweet 16.

LAST TIME OUT
-Missouri rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Texas A&M 3-2 on Thursday, Oct. 22, at Audrey J. Walton Stadium, moving to 5-9-2 (2-6-1 SEC).
-Texas A&M struck twice inside the opening seven minutes before Taryn Chance (Stafford, Va.), Morse and Buels answered with three unanswered goals, two in the final minute of the first half.
-Wilkerson made two saves to earn the win in goal.

THROUGH THE GAUNTLET
-Missouri drew one of the SEC’s toughest opening stretches, facing Oklahoma, Kentucky, Auburn, South Carolina, Arkansas and Vanderbilt to begin league play.
-Every one of those six opponents except Kentucky was ranked in the United Soccer Coaches Poll at some point during league play.
-The Black & Gold earned their first league win with a 3-0 shutout at Ole Miss and added a 3-2 comeback over Texas A&M, and they close the regular season at home against LSU on Sunday.

FIRST STRIKE
-Missouri is 4-0-0 this season when it scores the game’s first goal.
-The Tigers earned their first win of the year when conceding first by rallying past Texas A&M, improving to 1-9-1 in those matches.

SECOND-HALF TIGERS
-Thirteen of Missouri’s 21 goals have come in the second half, where the Tigers have outscored opponents 13-7.
-MU has been outscored 13-8 before the break but has generated more offense late, taking 102 of its 179 shots in second halves.

BY THE NUMBERS
-Missouri averages 3.75 saves per game.
-The Tigers have out-cornered their opponents 88-79 on the season.
-Mizzou has put 43.6 percent of its shots on target.

SPREADING IT AROUND
-MU’s 21 goals have come from seven different scorers.
-Morse, Adams and Buels share the team lead with four goals apiece, while Landis Canada (Fenton, Mich.) and Emily Derucki (Wildwood, Mo.) have three each.
-Buels has been the most accurate of the group, putting 16 of her 21 attempts on target (.762).
-Derucki leads the team with two game-winners, and Adams, Buels and Canada 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 59 saves through 16 matches.
-Wilkerson leads the team with 37 saves and has made 11 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 four goals and a team-high four 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, and she leveled the match in the comeback win over Texas A&M.
-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 16 matches and Yang 15 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 day 13th at 2-6-1 (seven points), with one match left, hosting LSU on Sunday.
-The scenario is clear: a win over LSU puts Missouri in the field.
-LSU (eight points) sits just ahead of Missouri and would clinch with a win or draw of its own, making Sunday a head-to-head play-in for the final tournament spot.

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