SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Notre Dame will close out the regular season on the road with a matchup against No. 5 Duke at Koskinen Stadium in Durham at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 11. The match will air on ACCNX.
NOTRE DAME vs. #5 DUKE
Location: Durham, N.C. | Koskinen Stadium
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Game Notes: vs. Duke
THE DUKE SERIES
• The Irish and Blue Devils will meet on the pitch for the 19th time on Friday evening.
• The Irish lead the series with a mark of 11-5-2.
• Notre Dame and Duke met once last season with the Irish winning by a score of 1-0 in South Bend.
• The Irish are 4-1-1 against the Blue Devils over the last six outings, having outscored Duke 7-3 during that stretch.
LAST TIME OUT
• The Irish went on the road and picked up an ACC win over Cal last weekend, defeating the Bears by a score of 2-0.
• The Notre Dame goals came from Matthew Roou and Nolan Spicer.
• The Irish backline held the Cal attack in check, only allowing three shots on target while recording their second-straight shutout.
• Collin Travasos made three saves en route to the win over his former team.
MATTHEW ROOU: GOAL SCORING MACHINE
• Senior forward Matthew Roou enters Sunday’s match tied for third in the country in goals with 13 on the season.
• Roou is in the best form of his career, scoring 13 goals over his last 10 outings, including back-to-back hat tricks during the stretch.
• The talisman’s 13 goals are the most in a season by an Irish player since Jon Gallagher scored 13 during the 2017 campaign.
• Roou is currently tied for 11th on the ND all-time goal scoring list with Pat Szanto at 34 goals and is one goal away from tying Sami Kahale for 10th (35).
• The talisman now has 81 career points off 34 goals and 13 assists.
• The forward became the first Notre Dame men’s soccer player since Kevin Lovejoy in 1979 to record multiple hat tricks in a season.
• Roou came through in the clutch in Notre Dame’s 2-1 win over Clemson, scoring the winner in the 86th minute to give the Irish the win.
• The senior is one of two players at the men’s DI level to register two hat tricks during the 2024 season, joining Massachusetts’ Alec Hughes.
• Roou scored a goal from the spot in the season opener against Akron.
BRYCE BONEAU: 2024 CAPTAIN
• Bryce Boneau is the captain for this year’s Fighting Irish team.
• Boneau is a senior midfielder from Texas and was selected to the 2024 ACC Preseason Watch List.
• The skipper leads the Irish in assists with a career-high eight on the season.
• Boneau’s average of .53 assists per match ranks third in the ACC.
• Boneau scored four goals and added seven assists last season as a center midfielder and has four goals and 15 assists in his Notre Dame career.
• Boneau was selected by Nashville SC in the third round of the 2024 MLS SuperDraft with the 75th overall pick.
BALANCED ATTACK
• Thirteen different players have found the back of the net for the Irish this season (Roou, Flanagan, Genenbacher, Boneau, J. Bartlett, Spicer, Dunphy, Baffour, Shaul, N. Bartlett, Ferguson, Green, Lewis).
• Fourteen returning Irish players registered at least one point in their Notre Dame career, as the team returned 85 points from last year.
• Ten players that scored a goal during the 2023 campaign are back on this year’s team.
• Senior Matthew Roou is the top returning goal scorer on the 2024 squad after firing in a career-high 10 goals during his junior campaign.
HERE TO ASSIST
• Notre Dame ranks second in the ACC in assists per game, averaging 2.29 on the year.
• Bryce Boneau paces the Irish with eight assists while KK Baffour has dished out four and Matthew Roou, Sebastian Green, Mitch Ferguson and Ian Shaul have each added three.
• All three of Green’s assists came in the win over Chicago State, tying the junior for the national lead for most assists in a game at the men’s DI level.
• The Irish dished out 48 assists last season, ranking sixth in the country for total assists.
STRONG STARTS
• Notre Dame has made a habit of jumping out to an early lead this season, as the Irish have scored the opening goal in 11 of 15 matches in 2024.
• Four of the 10 opening goals came within the first 20 minutes of play.
•The quickest goal to start a match came from Bryce Boneau in the seventh minute in the win over Louisville.
• The Irish are outscoring teams 13-3 over the opening 45 minutes of play this season.
2023 SEASON REWIND
• Notre Dame had one of its most successful seasons in program history last year, finishing with an appearance in the College Cup Final.
• The Irish were dominant in the ACC, claiming the Coastal Division crown and earning the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament after going undefeated in regular season conference play with a record of 6-0-2.
• Notre Dame finished the season with a record of 13-3-6 but two of the draws resulted in the Irish advancing in the NCAA Tournament in shootouts.
• The Fighting Irish defeated Kentucky (2-0) in the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament before moving past Western Michigan (0-0) and Indiana (1-1) to make the College Cup.
• Notre Dame then defeated Oregon State (1-0) in the semifinal before falling to Clemson (1-2) in the final.