Early in the year — in pre-season, I wrote an article with my “bold-predictions” for the 2023 season. Bold predictions are supposed to be somewhat unlikely, but technically possible. At the end of the year, I think it’s instructive to look back and review how I fared. For one thing, it’s always funny to look back at Fresh-Faced-And-Full-Of-Optimism-Andy. To see …
A few weeks ago I was honored with a guest spot on the Revolution Recap Podcast. During the show, host Greg Johnstone and I took a look at the remaining schedule and endeavored to predict how many could be ‘possible wins’. As optimistic as I tried to be, the schedule was replete with playoff caliber opponents, in good form. We …
On May 20th, the New England Revolution fell apart in Philadelphia. They managed just 8 shots to Philly’s 17 and lost several players to injury during the match, eventually losing 3-0 to the Union. It was an abysmal performance. The kind of performance that can break a team’s spirit. Fortunately, that’s not what happened with the Revs. In the 10 …
The Revs got back on track this past weekend, earning a 3-1 win over Inter Miami CF. It was New England’s first win since May 6th. While there’s significant excitement surrounding Miami’s new possible number 10, it was New England’s 10 showing out in this match. Carles Gil scored a penalty kick that he helped create, as well as contributing …
The Revolution started the season hot. Through their first 11 matches, they held a record of 7 wins, 3 draws, and just 1 loss. That’s a 2.18ppg pace, slightly higher than the 2.15ppg pace New England set the points record in 2021. Since week 11, however, things have not gone quite as well. A loss against USL’s Pittsburgh Riverhounds in …
Well, it had to happen eventually. On Saturday, the New England Revolution traveled to south Florida to take on Inter Milan Miami CF and lost for the first time since March 12th. I won’t say that the loss was unexpected, but I, like many Revs fans, had gotten used to collecting points. Given their respective places in the standings, there …
An expression in sports starts to pop up in MLS circles in the late spring. “You’re as good as your record says you are.” With 10 weeks’ worth of MLS data, you’re going to start hearing it more and more. Essentially the concept is; if you’re winning games, it doesn’t matter how poor you look. Likewise, if you’re losing games …
To pull back the curtain a bit, I usually have a decent idea of what I want to write about each week by about half-time of the Revolution match. Sometimes it changes in the second half, but often times the story-lines are starting to establish themselves by mid-game. By the end I even sometimes have a headline ready to go. …
Week two of the MLS season is done and dusted. And when that dust settled, New England found themselves atop the Eastern Conference! Or, rather, basically atop the Eastern Conference. For those wondering how Miami sits ahead of the #NERevs in the standings, here are the MLS standings tie-breakers. NE and MIA equal on wins, goal differential, and goals for …
When an MLS team crashes out of the playoff hunt, as half of teams do, mlssoccer.com’s Matt Doyle writes a ‘Post-Mortem‘. An article designed to lay bare where it all went wrong for each team. He gives a representation of the highs and lows of the season, and gives expectations for the future. It’s a great article, even if it’s …
