Revs Win! Picking on the Little Guys
By: Jeff | February 21st, 2007Happily, the New England Revolution’s opening preseason game - a tilt against a select team hand-picked from Bermuda’s 64,000 souls - ended with a 3-1 win to New England. As yet, the Boston area mainstream media seems to be silent on the preseason’s successful opening, but the Revolution’s official site and at least one of the major Bermuda papers (the Royal Gazette) do enough dishing to make up for it.
From the Revs’ site:
“The Revs sustained the attack in the first half, controlling possession and spending most of the period in their attacking half of the field…In the second half, Revs head coach Steve Nicol made wholesale substitutions, changing all 11 players on the field. New England continued to attack…”
Mmm…actually, that one doesn’t excerpt all that well. The best news comes with the chatter about some new signings and trialists having decent games: draftees Chris Loftus and Wells Thompson were involved in goals, the latter directly; trialist Jorge Ramirez (or, Jorge Eduardo Ramirez Tabacchi for short) scored while, while his comrade-in-auditioning Takuya Yamada made the mess that led to the first-half own-goal that brought the Revs level.
Meanwhile, here’s what the (always blunt - I like it) Royal Gazette had to say:
“This was a game that the Revs never looked like losing, despite conceding an early goal, as they dictated play throughout almost the entire 90 minutes…(big jump)…[Bermudian 'keeper Timmy] Figureido might have been the busiest man on the pitch as time and again he was called upon to make desperate saves.”
Anyway, looks like a case of so far, so good. Then again, a stumble here would likely have dumped ants in the pants of Revs fans across the country.
Next up: the Los Angeles Galaxy; that one comes Thursday. I’ll do what I can by way of a preview in tomorrow’s edition.
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I’m guessing you’ll have to get your preview from somewhere other than the Galaxy official site. They’re too busy telling us all about the semi-literate Miss LA Galaxy. But when you get it all written up… Well, I’ll lazily link to you.
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