Coming off its second loss of the season, the Iowa soccer team will try to rebound against Nebraska at 7 p.m. at home today.

The Hawkeyes come into the match 10-2 on the season, 2-2 in the Big Ten, following a 2-1 overtime loss to Northwestern.

The Cornhuskers are 3-6-2 this season but also have a 2-2 record in the Big Ten. The teams have played the same four opponents in Big Ten play, both beating Illinois and Indiana while losing to Purdue and Northwestern.

Head coach Dave DiIanni said the Hawkeyes will not let themselves have two bad games in a row.

“Mentally, they’ve been very sharp,” he said. “They’ve been really resilient this year whenever we had whether it be losses or a training session that wasn’t as sharp as we needed to be. They don’t put two bad performances back-to-back, so that’s a credit to them.”

The players agree that they’ve been preparing well this week.

Senior captain and defender Isabella Blackman said the team had its best practice in a couple of weeks, and the team would like to play stronger at the beginning of the game, which has been a problem recently.

“I think the past few games, we’ve come off the first 15 minutes of the game too slow, and so we want to really attack Nebraska really hard off the bat,” Blackman said.

The Hawkeyes will attempt to finish their offensive opportunities against the Cornhuskers. The Hawkeyes had 25 shots on Sept. 29, 9 on goal, but were only able to score 1 goal.

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The players have been gaining confidence by getting in reps during practice and transferring it to the field.

“It’s kind of being able to adapt better, but I think in the past few trainings, we’ve been able to do that and been able to create more options and we look forward to doing well against Nebraska,” Samantha Tawharu said.

Big scoring opportunities that the Hawkeyes can capitalize on will be important, and it can propel them to wins in some Big Ten games.

“It just comes off special moments,” Blackman said. “We’ve been hitting that pretty hard all year long that everyone has a moment to impact the game, and as long as you capitalize on those moments, then everything will go in our favor.”

Set pieces were an issue for the Hawkeyes on Sept. 29, which resulted in 2 Northwestern goals.

“I think we need to stay more engaged in the box and not get too sucked toward the ball,” Blackman said. “That’s kind of what’s been happening these past two losses, and I think if we change that, then we will be unstoppable.”

DiIanni said Nebraska is led by three special players and a goalkeeper — senior Aubrei Corder — who is very strong with her feet and comes off her line really high.

He also said the experience his team has against Nebraska should help. Iowa beat the Huskers 2-1 last season.

“I thought we had a good plan then,” DiIanni said. “And were going to try to replicate that this year.”