CONWAY, Ark. - Central Arkansas Men's Soccer Team travels to Missouri on Wednesday, Sep. 8 for a matchup against Missouri State. The match comes off the back of an away trip to Birmingham, Alabama for the Bears.

TEAM NEWS
The Bears return to action just days after a 1-0 victory over UAB. A couple of players are still looking to bounce back for the Bears including Katsuyoshi Kimishima, who has missed the first four matches this season.

FORM GUIDE
Central Arkansas comes into the match undefeated this season with a 4-0 record. Outscoring their opponents 7-3 while keeping three straight clean sheets.

Missouri State sits at 3-1 ahead of the match, with their most recent result being a 3-0 loss to Tulsa. Missouri State does however boast a 3-1 victory over Belmont.

HEAD TO HEAD
This will be the 16th all-time meeting between the two sides, with the most recent result coming in April 2021 when Missouri State won 2-1 in Conway.

PLAYERS TO WATCH
Alberto Suarez is the main man to watch, having scored two goals in his last two matches and four goals in four matches for the Bears. Vicent Abaso also looks to get his name back on the score sheet having scored two goals in the first two matches, while Zach Schawl will look to extend his run of clean sheets to four with the record in a season being six.

HEAR FROM THE COACH
"We are excited to play another good team in Missouri State. They are a program that we very much respect! We are going there to become a better team ourselves and move stones to reach our targets to get better every time we get together as a team. If we earn a victory at Missouri State as we have earned in the four others to this point, great, but whatever the result is we will be ready to learn and compete! Every time we train and every time we compete we want to gain those lessons that a good competition teaches us," said Frank Kohlenstein ahead of the big matchup.

Kickoff is set for 6 P.M. in Springfield, Missouri.