The Commodores had their first preseason friendly at home against UAB on Monday. Tonight, they are in Tuscaloosa to face the University of Alabama at 6 PM. There is no TV or online streaming coverage, but I will keep up with the live scoring and Twitter updates to post some notes and/or highlights if those are made available.
Vanderbilt’s first of two fall preseason contests was promising in some regards but left some lingering concerns. Tactically, Coach Ambrose kept to a 3-5-2 or 3-6-1 for all but maybe the last 10 minutes of the UAB match. They did appear to use a back 4 for the finish, but it was probably more of asking the weak side outside mid to hold deeper and protect on the counter as they tried to close out the game without conceding.