ADVANTAGE: New England
Yes, the Red Bulls hold the home edge, but what else do they have in their favor? They are horribly hobbled, coming off a deflating loss to the teams biggest rival. Their goal scoring outburst is beginning to wane and the season is starting to mirror the pattern left behind by 2011.
Meanwhile, the Revolution are coming off of a two week break, hungry for a reboot. They may not be able to score in bunches, but they can certainly clog the midfield enough to stop the Red Bulls from gaining three points.
Expect an ugly one today folks.
PREDICTION:
Red Bulls 0 – 0 New England
EOS Season Prediction Record: 4-3
Perfect Predictions: 0
This one is going to be tough to watch. Dax is a hard worker but he’s going to struggle defending the midfield.
BlooCheez is incredibly consistant at making useless untimely backpasses. I am waiting to see what Backe sees in him, though he did manage to create a brilliant goal using his backpass technique recently. He’ll need to find himself inside the 18 to do it again.
In defense we can look forward to seeing Holgersson who is shaky and uncoordinated at the best of times and lucky at the best of times. He who inspires little confidence will be in charge of a backline of rookies. Rookies who, like Lade, I hope will be surprisingly steady.
I hope Lindpere makes attacking runs off the ball. That may not be his game but we need those runs into the box. They disrupt the D and create openings and opportunities for shots on goal.
I see a Henry playing the CM – CF role he played earlier this year during our losses. I see him playing pissed off
and scoring 1 late goal just to prove to himself that he can in spite of the whole team crumbling around him.
NE 3 – NY 1
the real punch in the face will come when a NE player who has never scored before drops a hat trick on us.
apologies for the pessimism but its not like i haven’t seen it before.
correction:
shaky and uncoordinated at the worst of times and lucky at the best of times
happy to be wrong