Saskatoon – Head out on the road for the first time in 2021, the Lethbridge Pronghorn men's soccer team had a rough opening game of two in Saskatoon, falling to the Saskatchewan Huskies 4-0 at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park.

The Huskies received goals from four different players, as Tobias Hyrich-Krueger, Ahmed Mohammad, Kuhle Bekwayo and Kwame Opoku-Addai all found the back of the net in the win. 

With three points, Saskatchewan vaults into a tie for first-place in the central division at press time with their 1-0-0 record, while Lethbridge falls to 0-2-0.

The Huskies controlled possession throughout the match, while outshooting the visitors15-to-3, in what served as their first match since the Canada West bronze medal match in Vancouver on Nov. 2, 2019.

All things considered, being back on the pitch and the form that his team was in was a positive for Chapman.

"I think players, coaches, trainers, you could feel the energy. They're excited to start playing for something that means something you can see in their play. If we look at 90 minutes, I was pretty proud of the guys, to play the standard they did for their first game after 18 months," said Chapman.

The result was one Pronghorns head coach Randy Bardock was not particularly pleased with.

"I thought we were very poor in the first half. Mentally we weren't sharp at all, in all aspects of the game and they punished us for it," said Bardock.

"We started to kind of do some things better in the second half, but mental mistakes are killing us right now. We've gotta be sharper."
 

Bardock and his club will get the chance to be sharper on Saturday night, when they take on the Huskies under the lights of Griffiths Stadium. Kick-off is slated for 7:00 pm, catch all the action on www.canadawest.tv, presented by Co-op.