Let us rant a bit…
I’ve been out of the writing world for a month dealing with Life. Now that I am back, I’d like to rant for a bit. Apparently, there are people who believe that the Revs are anything else like the title winning teams in Boston/ New England. The #NERevs hashtag had a guy start to tell people to pump the brakes on celebrating a tie on Wednesday.
I have been here 24 years for this team. I’ve seen MLS Cups with the Revs and felt the absolute tear of the heart as it’s ripped away from you. Never, ever, in my life, would I look at this season for the Revolution and say that I shouldn’t be celebrating every game since Bruce Arena took a hold of this team. Before May 14th, this year, most Revs fans were watching every game with pain in their heart, watching a team with no passion and no love for the game.
Since he’s taken a hold of the team, we have achieved a record undefeated streak and had an amazing player come in and be the reason we won games, or tied games that we were going to lose. I will never not celebrate a change in a team this heavy. If things didn’t change when they did, this team would be similar to the situation that FC Cincinatti is in at the moment. 100%, as a soccer fan, I will agree, there are some games I would have loved to be wins for my favorite and local team.
Right now, if we win on Sunday we’re looking at clinching a playoff spot against NYCFC at home. This is the game that people love to be at and feel the passion across the stadium that their home team will be in the playoffs! Fans in the stadium will go wild for goals and be ready to hug the player that scores the goal that decides our fates. It is the best feeling to watch this happen. I’ve had the chance to do this so many times in my life with this team.
So, to the negative nancy, I’m not going to put you down. I hope you’ll be the cheering the Revs on while you sit at home (because you won’t be there). I hope you feel the same when they score the goal that wins the game, and celebrate it hard. I do hope you feel regret for telling people that they shouldn’t be celebrating every game closer to clinching a playoff spot. I’ll be thinking of you while I jump up and down, and sing and chant for my team and celebrate every second with them!
Playoffs and NYCFC
The Revolution at home vs NYCFC on paper has our chances to clinch on Sunday to be very promising. The Revs have lost only once in 5 occurences of the Revs playing NYCFC in the past 4 years. Die(goal) has a knack for scoring goals against them and I hope he gets to do the necessary against them again. He has been in a much stronger, shadow winger position. During the game on Wednesday, it definitely seemed like he was confusing the Timbers defense in his position. He was also making necessary defensive stops in the position as well. His passing was on point.
If we win on Sunday, we clinch our place as the last and final playoff position. Absolutely, this should be our one and final goal, but there are ways for us to clinch if we tie or lose at this point.
NYCFC will be depleted after playing a tough game against Atlanta United on Wednesday. Also, they will be without Alexander Ring, Maxime Chanot and Valentin Castellanos due to yellow card accumulation. The biggest part of that is Alexander Ring, as he is their focal point and captain to the team. He has four goals this season and five assists. Maxime Chanot will be a huge loss to their defensive efforts, as he has started in 30 games out of 30 played this season. Valentin Castellanos will leave a huge attacking hole, as he has played in 29 games this season and scored 11, assisting on five goals as well. Hope to see us take advantage of the lack of these players and get ahead early.
Train to Gillette!
As a result of them putting the effort in this year, it seems as though they have put a bug in the ear of the Kraft Group to reach out to the MBTA to get the train moving for Revolution games, especially big ones like Sunday. They have a train slated to arrive at Gillete at 3:30 PM, 90 minutes before game time. It will be leaving 30 minutes after game. Starting at South Station, it will make stops at Back Bay, Route 128 and Mansfield before arriving at Gillette. I hope people make use of it and make the Revolution realize they can buy the train for the soccer games as well!