Revs try and go on their first winning streak of the season in Game 2 of the 3 game homestand. Revs are 2-3-7 on the year, while FCD is 7-4-2. New England is 2-0-4 at home, having won one home game to start April and then finally repeating that success last week. FCD is 2-4-0 on the road and have lost their last three games in total by a 0-8 scoreline (0-5 scoreline in their last two road games). New England Revolution v FC Dallas Gillette Stadium (7:30pm ET) REF: SILVIU PETRESCU AR1: Brian Dunn AR2: Jose Da Silva 4TH: Jose Carlos Rivero
This will be a good test for the New and Improved Revs. While it was nice to get the W last week, it was against Chicago, and Dallas will be a much stronger test. They area good team, but have been off lately and can be beaten if we play at the top of our game. Let's get some consistency going and take advantage of the teams that are struggling!
We will need to sort out our defense more or score more goals than last week if we intend to beat them. Plus Koffie needs to stay out of card trouble. We dodged a couple of bullets last week. I think last week's Revs wouldn't win this week. They will have to have done their work in training this week to start the streak.
Curious to see what the line up will be, and who will be back from injury From the injury report put out Weds, 5/18, but it says last updated the day before: OUT: F Charlie Davies (right abductor strain) OUT: D Donnie Smith (right hamstring strain) QUESTIONABLE: M Steve Neumann (right knee sprain, DNP 5/14) QUESTIONABLE:D Chris Tierney (left hamstring strain, DNP 5/14) - REPORT QUESTIONABLE: F Teal Bunbury (left hamstring strain, DNP 5/14) - REPORT QUESTIONABLE: D Jose Goncalves (chest injury, DNP 5/14) - REPORT The report is a Jeff Lemieux tweet saying Heaps said Tierney, Bunbury and Goncalves "very close," should all be ready for this weekend. Donnie Smith close to a return, too. Meanwhile, Davies is being evaluated "week to week" right now. "Charlie is probably the furthest away. He had a significant injury."
What are the odds of that not happening. He should plan which game he wants to miss then make it happen
Yeah, really. It seems that's Koffie's style (heavy tackling) for extinguishing the opposition's momentum in the midfield.
I seem to recall that Shalrie had a similar rep the first couple of years, and eventually grew beyond it.
I continue to think Dallas is a good team, even though their results haven't been all that. For me the problem comes down to Castillo. As dynamic, talented, and speedy as he is, he just isn't producing results. He hasn't had a goal or an assist in six games. He really ought to be terrifying and disrupting defenses. If the Revs can continue the trend of shutting him down, I think they have a chance. Otherwise not so much.
I think tonight should answer the question of "are we for real or not?" We looked very good against Chicago but they are so bad, it's hard to tell. Im looking forward to seeing the game tonight and hope to get an answer to my question.
Seconded. Funny how a genuine, in-form scoring threat up top changes one's outlook for a team overall: a spear without a sharp point is a poorly made shovel!
I like Sambinha so far, he looks very composed back there and has done his job keeping the Dallas attack at bay, partnering Farrell well. Hopefully he gets additional minutes as the season progresses.
3 2 Dallas Castillo capitalizes on Sambinha's mistake and finishes easily past Shuttleworth. Poor judgment on that goal by Sambinha for sure, but he had been playing well to that point.
4 2 Dallas, game set match. Well FCD have struggled a bit recently but they are the 2nd best team in the league for a reason. Dallas deserve the win, the better team definitely prevailed tonight. Bobby was shaky in goal, both from his dumb challenge that led to their pk on the first goal to not reacting fast enough on the 2nd. He was hung out to dry by poor defending on the third and fourth so I won't castrate him for those. The revs backline played well for a lot of the game but lapses in concentration led to a couple of horrible game-changing errors that led directly to goals. Midfield was ok in stretches and looked dangerous at times but the same old problems reared their ugly head and there were far too many turnovers in bad spots. There was some decent combination play; Lee, Agudelo even Kobayashi showed up in flashes but in general, the revs simply can not finish consistently. Up top, Kamara did nothing tonight. He was completely invisible apart from missing open headers. Femi added some energy but didn't create the same havoc he's done in the past, No matter who they play up top, what formation, etc - it just doesn't matter. This is a very average team and right now the record tells the story. Let the mediocrity continue.