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Revolution Looking To Build Off Recent Success As They Prepare For Chicago

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Revolution Looking To Build Off Recent Success As They Prepare For Chicago

The New England Revolution are winners of two straight matches. One against the LA Galaxy and the other this past weekend against the Philadelphia Union. Coming up on Saturday the Rev’s have the chance to make it three straight.

But the challenges of going on the road are a daunting task. Revolution Coach Jay Heaps is looking to take the positives from the previous two games and use it to their advantage on the road.

“I think to use the positives and try to keep momentum going, but at the same time, understand the things that we did in each of the games that got us the results. It was hard work and it started here on the pitch on the training field.”

New England is always looking to put in a solid week of training ahead of their matches. Of course the definition of the good week changes from coach-to-coach. Coach Heaps definition includes setting objectives for the squad and hitting those throughout the week.

“Obviously, when you outline the objectives for the day and you put it together in a big picture for the week and then we hit on all those objectives. Obviously, as a staff, we discuss it with the players, what we want to hit. Last week, it was simple messages, but we hit all the objectives in each training session.”

The Chicago Fire poise an interesting challenge for New England. Chicago sits in 2nd place in the Eastern Conference and New England will need to be locked in if they hope to grab their third victory in a row.

Whenever you go on the road, the margins for error shrink. We just have to lock in and have the principled defending be key, and I think offensively, we’ll get chances. We just have to make sure we don’t give anything away.”

Against the Union, New England was able to maintain a shut out in an impressive defensive effort. That effort is something they will need again to control the Fire.

“Of course. That’s how we usually approach each game, but in particular, the road games, because like I said, the margins for error are very slim. For us. if we can focus for 90 minutes and play – I guess that focus is on both sides of the ball, but more so on the defensive side – we’ll be alright.”

Tanner founded Trifecta Network in Spring of 2016 and has been the Chief of Content for the Network since that time. Currently Tanner covers all the sports teams in Boston and has contacts in many of the teams in the city. Before starting Trifecta, Tanner was a Site Expert for the FanSided site Chowder and Champions before leaving to cover Boston teams on the ground as a member of the media for Trifecta.

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EA Sports Releases FIFA Ratings. Here’s How The Revolution Stack Up.

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The importance of the FIFA video games series is undeniable. The game in recent years has become one of the world’s highest selling and most popular video games. Within that, there has be a huge growth of sales in America. More sales in FIFA sees more Soccer viewership on TV and at live matches in the United States. As someone who didn’t play soccer growing up, FIFA was my introduction into the world of the sport. While playing FIFA I learned the strategy and nuances of the game. I learned how to build a patient attack and to appreciate a less glorious position like central defensive midfielder for their importance in the game.

FIFA 18 comes out this Friday and promises real individual player motion technology, authentic stadium atmospheres, and a continuation of last year’s story mode “The Journey”. There will even be a release on the Nintendo Switch which along with NBA 2K18 will be the console’s first major third party sports release. In advance of this, EA Sports has released all the ratings for each player in the game through their Ultimate Team cards on the FUT Database on the EA Sports FIFA website.

This means that we get an early look at what the New England Revolution will look like in the game. The developers have appeared to given the Revolution an accurate representation. The depth at attacking positions is evident and the the shakiness in defense is there. Players like Benjamin Angoua have gone down from a 74 last year to a 71. And Josh Smith has gotten a boost to 64. If there is one major gripe with the ratings it is that Lee Nguyen, one of the most talented players in Major League Soccer, is only a 75. He doesn’t even crack the top 20 players in MLS. Nguyen should at least be a 77 or 78 so he can rank among Romain Allesandrini and Michael Bradley as a top midfielder.

Here are the Revolution’s overall individual ratings in order along with their listed position.

CAM Lee Nguyen - 75

ST Kei Kamara - 74

St Krisztian Nemeth - 72

CB Benjamin Angoua - 71

ST Juan Agudelo - 71

LM Diego Fagundez - 71

CB Antonio Delamea - 70

CAM Kelyn Rowe - 70

CB Claude Dielna - 69

CDM Xavier Kouassi - 69

RB Andrew Farrell - 69

CDM Gershon Koffie - 68

LB Chris Tierney - 67

ST Teal Bunbury - 67

CM Scott Caldwell - 66

GK Brad Knighton - 66

GK Cody Cropper - 66

RB London Woodberry - 65

CM Daigo Kobayashi -64

RB Je-Vaughn Watson - 64

CB Joshua Smith - 64

LM Donnie Smith - 63

ST Femi Hollinger-Janzen -60

ST Brian Wright - 59

CM Zachary Herivaux - 58

GK Matt Turner - 52

 

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New England Revolution Take Down Toronto

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The New England Revolution defeated Toronto FC 2-1 on Saturday night at Gillette Stadium.

It was a scoreless game until the 82nd minute when Lee Nguyen scored which set off a 5-minute window where 3 goals were scored.

Two for the Revolution, one for first place Toronto.

Even with the playoff chances being next to zero it was a good start to Tom Soehn’s Revolution coaching career with the team moving on from Coach Jay Heaps earlier in the week.

Below is the full Tweet story from the game.

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Robert Kraft Along With Patriots/Revolution Fans Raise Over $2 Million

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When Hurricane Harvey hit the Houston area the Kraft Family stepped up and launched an effort to raise funds to help support the disaster relief effort.

Robert Kraft pledged to match up to $1 million to support the relief effort with the goal being fans coming up with the money to match the pledge.

Patriots and Revolution fans came up big and donated an impressive $1,094,620 to the American Red Cross through the Kraft page bringing the total number raised to $2,094,620.

An impressive effort by all sides.

On Saturday afternoon the Kraft’s announced that outstanding number and thanked those who joined them in supporting the Hurricane Harvey relief effort.

The Kraft Family and fans weren’t the only members of the organization to help out the cause. Most notably Patriots QB Tom Brady donated $100,000 and head coach Bill Belichick donated $50,000. Both of those donations went to the JJ Watt lead effort that raised somewhere north of $30,000,000.

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