New England Revolution Win Despite Late Push By Toronto FC
The New England Revolution took on Toronto FC on a wet Saturday night at Gillette Stadium. Despite a late push by Toronto the New England Revoltion were able to walk away with a 3-2 win.
1st Half
00:00: We are underway at 7:38 pm ET
4″ New England gets on the board early after some decent chances in the early minutes with a 4th-minute goal coming off of the foot of Cristian Penilla with assists coming from Teal Bunbury and Scott Caldwell. This was Penilla’s 3rd goal of the season, Bunbury’s first assist, and Caldwell’s first as well.
6″ Plenty of early chances for the Revs, pressure following goal by Penilla immense.
7″ Revolution get their second goal quickly with Penilla scoring his second goal of the game. Penilla scored with Toronto’s goalkeeper caught out of the net after a series of intense pressure by New England. This was Penilla’s fourth goal on the season, 2nd of the game.
11″ Revs continuing to hold the edge with more chances but Toronto pushing back trying to capture some momentum to no avail.
14″ Excellent look by Teal Bunbury after a fantastic pass from Penilla, shot misses near post.
18′ Bunbury had a breakaway look but was stopped and tried to find Diego Fagundez at the far post for a header that missed the net. Should have been a goal by Bunbury who failed to capitalize on a prime scoring opportunity.
21″ Fagundez fed a picture perfect pass but his shot hit the keeper right in the bread basket. Wasted opportunity.
23″ Yellow card handed to Chris Tierney
26″ Great save by Matt Turner on the first real shot he faced of the game. Laid out for that one.
28″ Another nice save by Turner with the punch save with plenty of bodies in front. Rebound shot misses high.
29″ Toronto FC turning up the pressure offensively as they start to get desperate to make this a one-goal game before the half.
30″ Third save of the match for Turner, another punch save with the New England Revolution then able to clear the zone. Three saves in the last five minutes of play with Toronto ramping up their attack.
40″ Yellow card to Scott Caldwell, the second yellow of the half for the Revolution
45″ Half-time
1st Half Thoughts
The New England Revolution came out firing with Toronto FC’s defense not being able to do much to stop the Revs attack. But Toronto started to push and go on the offensive. New England still had more looks overall, but the second part of the 1st half was a clear push with Toronto doing their best to attack for stop the New England attack.
The Revolution could have had four or five goals in the first half with several opportunities squandered. Still a great first half for the New England Revolution.
2nd Half
46″ We are underway in the 2nd half of play.
46″ New England Revolution once again with an early goal, 3-0 with this goal being scored by Teal Bunbury assisted by Andrew Farrell. This is Bunbury’s 5th goal of the season and Farrell’s 1st assist. Revs goalkeeper Matt Turners celebration on the other side of the field for Bunbury’s goal was epic. A clear directive by Brad Friedel to turn up the attack once again after seeing the pressure dwindle towards the back end of the first half.
55″ Toronto gets one back to make it a 3-1 game, the goal credited as an own goal to Antonio Delamea. Shot by Toronto FC’s Jordan Hamilton bounced off Delamea and in.
60″ Substitution Sebastian Giovinco replaces Tosaint Ricketts, Chris Mavinga also comes in to replace Ager Aketxe
66″ Zachery Herivaux the first man off the bench for New England replacing Kelyn Rowe
68″ Yellow card handed to Luis Caicedo. Team’s third yellow card of the night, none so far for Toronto.
69″ Great layout save by Turner to save a goal
70″ Toronto with their third sub of the game, Victor Vasquez Solsona in for Jay Chapman.
73″ Great look by Bunbury who just missed the net.
73″ Yellow card handed to Diego Fagundez, the fourth yellow card on the Revs. Fagundez will miss next weeks match with a yellow card suspension due to a time-killing penalty. Not worth it.
74″ Attendance number announced, 19,596 on a wet night
82″ Revs send in Krisztian Nemeth in to replace Bunbury
85″ Wilfried Zahibo in for Scott Caldwell
89″ Toronto makes it a one-goal team after a dive results in a penalty kick that Turner just missed. Sebastian Giovinco with the goal.
90″ Red card handed to Sebastian Giovinco who went after Zahibo who tried to knock the ball out of Giovinico’s hands when he was running back to midfield.
90″ New England Revolution win 3-2 FT
2nd Half Thoughts
New England came out firing with Bunbury quickly notching a goal to make it 3-0. A bad bounce off of Delamea made it a 3-1 match with things once again becoming back and forth in terms of looks.
Toronto’s second goal of the game came after an alleged trip resulted in a penalty shot. A tough one for the Revs.
Overall Thoughts
For playing at home it appeared the officiating in this one was questionable at best with missed calls on Toronto but plenty going against New England.
Capturing a win after losing to Montreal last weekend was huge for the New England Revolution.
Next for New England is a match against Columbus Crew SC next Saturday at 7:30 pm at Gillette Stadium.