Some interesting Revolution stats gleaned from MLSnet.com: Revs average home attendance (12,728) is ahead of only LA (none yet) CHI, DAL and SJ. Adin Brown is 4th in GAA at 0.97, 3rd in save percentage (80.0%). The Revs lead the league in assists (10) with 8 different players recording one. Only JMM and Wolde have 2. They lead the league in shots (110), shots on goal (50), and fouls committed (117), yet amazingly are tied with SJ for the fewest yellow cards (7). They also have the fewest offside calls (10). They are 1 of 4 teams undefeated when scoring first (3-0-0). There have been 8 penalty shots in MLS this year, with Adin Brown making the only save. Captain Joey leads the team, and is tied for 5th in MLS, with 16 fouls committed. TnT is 3rd in MLS in fouls suffered with 23. The Revs have netted 10 goals to DCU's 4, only 1 by a forward (Quaranta). It's still early, but hopefully ProfZodiac made a large bet with Marc Connolly....
This is really discouraging - and there's no silver lining. I would think it's probably because of how bad the economy is locally. Things are bad all over, but I think the soccer market here is especially hard hit because of the high-tech slump. Evidence seems to come in the fact that the Sox attendance is off somewhat also. Interesting in that I don't think we really "bomb" away. If anything, we pass too much in the box. Franchino started the season on a card-a-game pace, but has been remarkably restrained lately - I guess his cards are often a result of his feeling under siege. DH has also been more restrained - he hasn't taken any of those "enforcer" type yellows so far. Generally, I think most of the Revs yellows come when they're out of position defensively and lately the defense has been getting much tighter (with the help of better ball possession in front of them).