The New England Revolution went to Texas for a match against the enemy of the Western Conference Austin FC (8:30 p.m. HAE – MLS Season Pass).
The 11th place Revs is in the third lower in the eastern marking goals with 26 accounts over the year while Austin was not only died last in the West, but in all ML with only 15 goals scored this year.
While the diets have had a rotating list of injuries at the top, Austin will now be without their The top scorer Brandon Vazquez who suffered a LCA tear In the middle of the week in US Open Cup Play. Vazquez scored five goals over the year for Los Verde who, almost at the same time, the Revs were on their long undefeated sequence, Austin was on a sequence of eight matches without defeat but won two of his last three in action MLS.
New England has only one point in its last five games, a section where their defense once praised at the start of the season abandoned 11 goals in this section.
New England problems in advance can probably be resolved by the health and consistency of partnerships. Leo Campana missing time for two different injury spells has not helped his shape while perhaps the best target man Ignatius Ganago has not played since the end of May.
Now asking the wingers Luca Langoni and Tomas Chacalay to pivot the supporters / seconds of the attackers on the fly had mixed results. But Langoni’s speed and Chanca’s overall grip helped regimes to generate chances. The problem has finished them, Campana not having scored since early May and that everyone is missing from the guards.
Usseglio: Critical errors cost New England
After having reduced two goals against Inter Miami with Tanner Beason probably responsible for the two, it was still necessary to wear to the point of time to insert Chacalay for the central third place and pivot in 4-2-3-1 more standard. If the additional striker had been on the ground at halftime as I asked forPerhaps Carles Gil’s goal in the 79th minute would have arrived earlier and REV could have removed a draw. There is Modifications that I would make the coachYour substitutions must occur earlier.
Because Caleb Porter is not wrong when he says that the Revs were not preceded by MiamiBut I do not think it takes into account the state of the game on the henon side which did not need a lot to guarantee their victory and tries to keep the energy. This is how Messi killed you on the second goal, rocked you in a false feeling of security of old man and triggered his speed of sprint Wily. They managed to sit down two goals and gave you the second half to return to the match and the Revs simply lacked time.
But moral victories are becoming more and more difficult to justify for the REV while they are below the line of the playoffs. Rev do not play badly, but they have to start the chances, especially Campana. If the background line will flee the goals, opt to start in the more attacker training is something that must be seriously taken into account.
As always, we chat with a good friend of TBM, Phil West of Verde all day About who intervenes for Vazquez in advance (And a much deeper dive on this subject) And what it means for the open cut of Austin and the chances of the playoffs without their talismanic attacker. Make sure to consult your site to get answers to my questions and Follow him on Bluesky.
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TBM: We are all quite disappointed with the injury of Brandon Vazquez, must assume that this withdraws him from the World Cup consideration next year, but we will wait to see. In the short term, which is the best internal option for Austin FC in advance and could there be a commercial or international signature in the summer window to fill the attacker’s vacuum?
PW: First of all, yes, we are all unhappy with Vázquez’s injury – first and foremost because he is really a good guy who is well suited to the team since his arrival, and also because he has scored a third of the 15 goals of the Austin League so far, and without him, a team that has been written for many of the season will be even more stimulated. You saw this team move forward on Tuesday in a tournament after taking more than 120 minutes without scoring open game. It is at the extreme end of how they were offensively, but it is not really an anomaly – they scored only one goal or none in most of their league games this season.
Of course, attention is now turning to Myrto Uzuni, who has shown that he was an attacker capable in other contexts, but has only one goal and a decisive step in 1228 minutes of league so far. He certainly had his chances, and we really saw him want to mark (and react accordingly when he does not do so), but now it is crucial that he repairs everything that suffers.
TBM: Despite the injury to Vazquez, Austin qualified in the USOC semi-finals against Minnesota United. I know it’s in two months and the Rbny-Philly game is not yet played, but give us your best dimensions in Los Verde by winning everything.
PW: Asking questions about the “ratings” asks only a Han Solo style style “never tells me that the ratings” – thought they just beat the Red Bulls at home a few weeks ago and attracted Minnesota on the road during a difficult May in which they could not get a result in seven championship games, but also obtained two open -cup victories to progress. One of them came against El Paso-they were down 2-0 in the 70th minute, they played so badly in the first half that they were hooked from the field and fell with three goals to win the regulations. It could be a lot to call a Verde a team from Destiny, but since they advanced as they did, I could see them assembled for two additional games. (If they win at Minnesota, they will host the final, and this is the kind of event for which I think the fans would present themselves. So far, the attendance has not been quite what it has been for home matches, but it was much better than I see only the League, remembering the siege colored patterns in various MLS stadiums.).).
TBM: Austin is currently just above the gaming line to the west, and after the trip to the Revs to the Galaxy and DC United. What is the importance of this section to raise Austin on the table and how many points do you see them overcome next week?
PW: You should mention this! They actually had a front loading schedule, the scheme force, and in this last block of matches until the end of the season, this calendar force becomes much easier to manage. (There is a lot of mathematics Involved, but let’s just say that it is historically easy.) That said, following this key injury, everything is a little upside down and it could be one of these strange games for Verde who stand out from all the emotional tumult on Tuesday. But given where the regimes are currently, where the galaxy has been all season, and DC which draws its coach after abandoning four goals in the second half during an open cup defeat, Banking Nine Points should not be too large. (But it’s MLS, after all, so I expect something surprising.)
