The revs travel to Orlando to play OCFC on Sunday April 17 at 3:30pm. This game will be on ESPN to showcase OCFC's raucous home crowd. The revs will be hoping to brush off their home draw with TFC last weekend to get an important 3 points on the road. In the mediocre east, a win could catapult them into first, pending other results. Scoring goals is still problematic OCFC comes into this match 3rd in the east, a point ahead of the revs, with a game in hand. They lost at Philly in their last game and handily beat Portland at home the game before that, so it will be interesting to see which team shows up against the revs. Will be interesting to see what happens.
This will be another test for our defense, which I suspect is pretty stout. The only reason I'm still not completely convinced about our defense is the goals allowed vs Houston and Philly. Other than that, they've not allowed too many goals.
Any word on the Agudelo injury that happened after the injury report came out last week, any general details of what he might have hurt that made it so he couldn't even make the bench for a late appearance against NYRB? Did he miss any training this week? I don't see his name in injury report that came out on Tuesday, so I guess he must have fully recovered by then, because Barnes is still listed on there, and according to that article after the Watson red, Barnes was fit to play a couple weeks ago.
Think I heard that it was a strained neck - and that he was progressing "well". Cyle Larin is supposed to be out, along with a few others, so that's pretty big for us.
Orlando City v New England Revolution Citrus Bowl (3:30pm ET) REF: BALDOMERO TOLEDO AR1: Kermit Quisenberry AR2: Kevin Klinger 4TH: Rubiel Vazquez
Strained neck? Heaps said it was a leg injury in a press conference according to one of your fellow KADs. The inconsistency is ...interesting. The only thing that likely was hurt was Agudelo's ego when he didn't make the 18. The injury thing was a nice cover by the org for the more gullible fans. I smell something coming from the Foxboro Kremlin and it ain't pleasant...
My recollection was that Orlando at home was a very different team last year than on the road. So I gave the googles a crank, and learned this 2015 MLS info: Orlando SC Home 7w / 5d / 5l / GD +6 Away 5w / 3d / 9l / GD -16 ...so for sure they had fewer leaks at the back at home. Might be tough to get more than one past them in the afternoon sun (another crank on the googles machine tells me it's 80°F now, probably feels hotter on the pitch with no breeze, etc.).
that replay angle they showed did actually look like a foul on the penalty. definitely looks possible to get some point here if we keep it up.
Not overly impressed with Harchester United, and at the Dragons' lair to boot. Revs playing well, looking organized, energetic. Nice to see Bunbury find his range. I'm not overly fussed with the pen, though I've seen that not called more often than called. "I really hope Rowe wasn't arguing with the ref about not blowing the whistle for Lee being down." Don't you think he was arguing that it should have been a foul, since it wasn't clearly different than the foul for which Koffie got cautioned?