P/I/P Seattle @ Revs, 5/11, 6pm

I am less intolerant of Tierney than most on this Board, but we will really miss Alston for this match. Yedlin is scary fast and very aggressive coming forward. I worry about his ability to unbalance our defensive shape and open things up for Deuce and Martins.

 

I think Yedlin will be a great assignment for Bunbury. That will be a great battle. Diego might have a lot of space to operate in as well, supposedly Dylan Remick (Brown '12!) is injured as is Leo Gonzalez, so Diego will likely be up against someone playing out of position.

Dorman/Nguyen vs Alonso/Pineda will also be a great battle in the middle of the field.

Could really use JoGo and Rowe for this one, even if its just the last 20 minutes for Rowe.

 

Absolutely.

 

Seattle is, for my money, the best team in MLS right now. I just can't see the Revs keeping Dempsey/Martins/Neagle off the board. I think the Revs will need a few breaks to go their way to win this one.

 

I am thinking Dempsey won't "hunt" as hard as he otherwise would in this game...US MNT camp opens May 14..Maybe something like Bradley last week in Toronto. Neither player wants to risk an injury this close to Brazil.

 

I did it before the Galaxy game last year, and I'm pulling the guarantee out again for this one...

The Revs will win this game. No ties, no moral victories. They will score more goals than Seattle does on Sunday.

In fact, it might not be close.

 

It's not just that they're playing tonight. It's that they're playing tonight, and then they're flying all the way across the country. Last year when we whacked LA at home, they played a USOC match midweek (Charleston, I think) and then flew to Foxboro. They wanted no part of that game.

Schedule maker really helped us out here.

 

"5/18" in thread title, s/b 5/11. Otherwise they will be too rested and this weeks cross country flight wont have any bearing at all.

 

Hey mods, the date of the game in the thread title is wrong.

 

I think it's winnable. Dallas was woeful last night and they still managed to take the Sounders attack for most of the match. Our defense is far more solid than what FCD put on display last night. Yedlin was beat several times on speed and positioning, especially after the FCD sub. He over commits and gets caught out a lot. We will have to find a way around Chad Marshall by attacking the flanks. We will have to frustrate Martins a bit so he pushes higher and leaves a gap. Our speed in the final third will net us at least one. We have every chance of taking all three here.

 

i'm assuming no surprises in the lineup

Mullins
Diego-Nguyen-Kobayashi-Bunbury
Dorman
Tierney-Soares-Farrell-Barnes
Shuttleworth

might we see Neumann starting in place of Kobayashi though? If not i certainly expect to see him subbed on if we need a goal. if we're already winning, Caldwell subbed on for Kobayashi.

 

Also, might we see Rowe as a sub as well? He was listed as questionable last week, hopefully he's not gotten any worse since then.

 

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/78...ccer-2014-New-England-Rev-Seattle-Sounders-FC

 

(New England has no significant weaknesses)

What fever dream did I wake up from? Or are the "current season statistics" used to calculate this the same ones that say Chris Tierney should start every week?

 

It was odd when we first saw it, but I now love how the Revs only strength is protecting the lead, just due to the amusement/novelty factor. I just looked at the stats from their 4 wins, and they've basically held a lead for a total of about 25 minutes all season. It's a bummer they scored the winner so early in Toronto, it's the only one scored in regulation, for in the previous three wins they scored 4 minutes before the end of injury time. That means that the team has only held a lead for a total of 8 minutes of regular time all season, yet they have 4 wins in 9 games. The number in parentheses below is when the last entry was made in the Feed section on the MLS stats page, which I'm using as the amount of injury time in the 2nd half.

@sj - 93' (7)
Hou - 91' (5)
KC - 92' (6)
@Tor - 82' (5)

 

yeah, when I first saw it I thought it was stupid, but now part of me is kinda hoping they can keep it up, muddling through games, showing no particular strengths or weaknesses, and winning very late, just so that we can keep seeing these comparisons, where the Revs cupboard is bare while the opponent has lots of things to look at.

I think the Bruins have been ahead for a bit more than 11 minutes, all in game 2 and they actually lost the lead they initially had for around 8 minutes, but the series is tied at 2. Though for them, I'm less amused, I want to see them just put Montreal behind them and move on.

 

My biggest hope for this game is that for the third week in a row, Lee outplays a NAT pool player. In this case, Dempsey. Oh yeah... and of course, we win too

 

This whole rating system is pretty bizarre. It would be better to have all the categories, and then how the teams rate in each, ranging from very strong, strong, average, weak, very weak. Looking at this, Seattle are strong or very strong in a lot of areas, where we have one "strong" and nothing else. Seattle is also weak and very weak in quite a few areas. Are we so "average" that it isn't even worth mentioning?

 

Cross-country flights always have a bearing. They might be able to overcome it, but it's a big factor - or at least athletes and coaches in every major pro sport seem to think it is.

 

Not if the flight takes place a week before the game....

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