Philadelphia Union at New England Revolution - Gamethread - Match #19
by Justin F. on Jul 17, 2011 5:00 PM EDT
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PrintWith three games in hand and only one point behind the New York Red Bulls for first place in the Eastern Conference, the Philadelphia Union (7-4-7) will travel north to take on the Eastern Conference's last place team, New England Revolution (3-8-7). Kickoff at Gillette Stadium is scheduled for 7:06:30 PM ET.
If you have not already, be sure to check out the following previews from The Brotherly Game staff: [Ben's Match Preview] [Saturday Morning Union Freekicks] [Scott Has A Conversation With The Enemy]. New England perspective: [The Bent Musket]
Broadcast Information: Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (J.P. Dellacamera, Taylor Twellman, Bob Rigby) with coverage starting at 6:30 PM Eastern with a pre-game show / Comcast SportsNet New England and 98.5 The Sports Hub WBZ-FM (Brad Feldman, Jay Heaps, Damon Amendolara; Omar Cabrera in Spanish via SAP) in New England / MLS Direct Kick, MatchDay Live (CSN New England feed)
Philadelphia Union starting XI: Mondragon; G. Farfan, Califf, Valdes, Williams; Daniel, Carroll, Nakazawa, Mapp; Le Toux, Ruiz
Philadelphia Union bench: MacMath, Torres, Mwanga, McInerney, Okugo, M. Farfan, Miglioranzi
New England Revolution starting XI: Reis; Alston, Coria, Soares, Phelan; McCarthy, Feilhaber, Nyassi, Tierney; Mansally, Lekic
New England Revolution bench: Shuttleworth, Loewy, Koger, Guy, Boggs, Schilawski, Barnes
Leave your comments throughout the game here. Our staff will give live comments and reactions throughout the game, as well. Go Union! DOOP!
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I’m fine. Japan are a good team and that was a game for the ages. Plus I kind of feel for them after the devastating earthquakes that struck the region earlier in the year. They beat the host nation, a good Swedish side, and the U.S.
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If the U.S. were going to lose, I’ll lose no sleep over it being to Japan.
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Union starting XI
Mondragon, G. Farfan, Califf, Valdes, Williams, Daniel, Carroll, Nakazawa, Mapp, Le Toux, Ruiz
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They’re calling this one from a studio in Philadelphia. J.P. and Twellman live in Boston. Flat out sad that the Union doesn’t feel that they can (doesn’t feel that they need) to have their announcers on-site.
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wow
That is pathetic
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The truth is that it’s more than about sending your announcers — it’s really about sending an entire production crew. But it’s … embarrassing is what it is.
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This is their fifth road broadcast being done by studio this year (out of eight total road broadcast). They did three from a studio all of last year.
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Yeah… me too.
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Comcast Sportsnet
Thought: the game is on CSN-New England for the Revs, so I wonder if Comcast will save even more money by just having a single feed/production crew with just slapping on some different graphics for each team.
Revs matches are produced by a Kraft company using Comcast graphics, so while that may have been true last week with San Jose, this may be like any other studio match (e.g., taking Rogers Sportsnet’s video from Vancouver, taking Altitude’s video from Colorado).
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The post has been updated with starting line-ups and benches for both sides.
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I'm live from The Irish Mile on Haddon Ave...
north of Collingswood and south of Haddonfield. Right near the Westmont Train Station.
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
Oh my heavens
Venezuela have scored and have taken a 1-0 lead against Chile.
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My expert analysis on what is happening at Copa America
There is something in the Argentine water.
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Ruiz with an excellent leaping flick. 1-0 Philadelphia.
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Mapp to Daniel (header) to Ruiz to upper right corner. GOAL! #DOOP @PhilaUnion 1-0 @NERevolution
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
Gabriel Farfan’s transformation into a left back is clearly still in the works. Staying too high for too long. Dangerous for the Union D.
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
Very talented in the attack with his flair and speed, but he needs to remember that his job is to defend as well.
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, he was all the way up near the far corner flag just a few minutes ago.
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Valdes comes forward and off a set piece gets his first MLS goal as the ball became loose right in front of the net. 2-0 Philadelphia.
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A low, quick cross into the box by @SheanonWilliams barely misses Ruiz’s foot. Nearly a third goal.
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
Ruiz goes down, legitimately. But the foul comes on a play that he fouls others on all of the time – header.
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Oh man. That match last year rocked.
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Half Time
Philadelphia Union 2-0 New England Revolution.
The situation in New England is just ugly.
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At least Toronto is getting their act together
The Revs are a mess, and it won’t get better until they get their own stadium.
I’ve always found them to be a boring franchise anyway.
by phillyhoosfan on Jul 17, 2011 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s sad. And Kraft probably sees little reason to build a stadium for them — why should he have two stadia in the Boston area when he already has one?
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Here's the real question.
If he doesn’t care about the team, which he clearly doesn’t, why won’t he sell it? It’s not like it’s a huge money maker for him.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope — they’re losing money. So it’s a question of finding a dedicated ownership group with the money to buy the team (because Kraft won’t sell it for cheap), build a $200 million stadium, and then pay an exorbitant amount of money for two seasons or so to continue to use Gillette as the club’s home while the stadium’s being built.
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You’re probably out $400 million easy before you can start reaping the benefits of having a full season in your beautiful new revenue-generating stadium. Unfortunately, in this economy, it’s hard to put that much money together…
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New England has been on the list of “MLS teams that make money” for some time now. I doubt they make a significant profit, but Kraft surely makes money on the team. He basically uses Patriots staff to run stuff (which is why their efforts are half assed) and doesn’t have to pay rent for the stadium. And it’s not like he’s using money to buy DPs or anything.
I doubt Kraft has any incentive to sell the team.
For the full statement from Revolution reporters, read this: http://t.co/X3m3Ly4 (h/t to @dget) via @drugisfootball
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Should read supporters, not reporters.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions
A calm, cool and collected 45 minutes from the entire club. No anxiety, no stress — none of that. I think it was truly their best first half of their regular season. But of course it’s important to remember the status of club they’re facing…
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Meanwhile in San Juan, Argentina
Chile have equalized. Chile 1-1 Venezuela in the 80th minute.
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OH MY! VENEZUELA SCORES IN THE 81ST MINUTE!
They lead!
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And Medel receives a 2nd yellow card giving him a red card and ejection
Chile are down to 10 men. It is all going wrong for the Chileans in the final 10 minutes.
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Hahaha, now there is a problem with the lights in the stadium
This is comical
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I'm probably nitpicking
but why couldn’t they head either of those goals in? Ruiz and Valdes looked real awkward karate kicking those goals in.
The Ruiz one definitely could NOT have. Valdes, possibly.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Great way of describing Ruiz goal: ninja kick. Seen a couple of people saying it looking like one.
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Game is back.
Second half has started.
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Barnes and Boggs both in for New England Revolution
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Coria and Nyassi are the New England Revolution players who came off
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Yellow card to Feilhaber
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Inevitably, the crowd noise goes out once or twice during these studio broadcasts, and it sounds really weird because there’s no background noise. I’m pretty sure it just happened, but the stadium’s been so quiet anyway that you basically couldn’t tell.
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Feilhaber gets a deserved yellow for putting his elbow into Gabriel Farfan’s face. Thin ice.
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What is this, Dodger Stadium? Who brought the beach balls?
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Thank. you.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Shot rattles off the of the crossbar, a wicked shot from the Revolution. Mondragon had no chance if it was on frame (away from posts).
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As much as I joke about TFC, the New England Revolution are showing they are more worthy of my snark instead. What an embarrassment.
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Makes our complaints about the Union doing some road telecasts from a studio seem like a first world problem, really.
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True. And thankful the Union have such a good relationship with the Sons of Ben.
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There was some tension last year over YSA, you’ll recall. But it was later revealed that almost all of the concern from the front office was coming from Veit, so no worries there anymore.
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Some tension, but nothing like this. In comparison, that was tame.
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Oh, absolutely. That was a scratch compared to this being a wound that’s currently being salted.
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The tension was pretty small really and was more between SOB leadership and the rank and file. I never got the sense that the SOB elders had any problems with what the front office was asking of them; everyone seemed to be on the same page.
Inevitably, in any professional relationship, there are going to be some disputes and compromises. Union and their supporters seem to me to get along as well as any teams do.
Blame Kraft on that one.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions
.@TaylorTwellman brings up the 2-0 lead cliche, says he held it in for 35 minutes. Golf clap. @PhilaUnion #doop
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Either awful camera work or awful production team editing. CSN ticker covering up a lot of the left side play. #poor
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Side effect of taking your video feed from someone else. Revs aren’t producing their video with the ticker up all the time, so they’re not worried about that part of the screen being covered.
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Union come very close, with Justin Mapp charging into the box. @TaylorTwellman points out that he came up gingerly after the play.
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Mapp off
Mwanga on
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Hahaha, CSN had a graphic at the bottom of the screen saying “Happy birthday, Danny”
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Mwanga combines with Keon Daniel for a give and go that is called offside. Had put the striker into his favorite shooting place – edge of 18
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Was a foul, not offside.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 8:31 PM EDT up reply actions
And there goes Feilhaber.
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And boom goes the dynamite
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Whoa, look at how quickly Mondragon came down the field to tell his team to step away from the argument and count to ten.
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It’s all fallen apart for New England tonight, hasn’t it. Something has to change for this franchise, and fast.
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AND BENNY FEILHABER IS GIVEN HIS SECOND YELLOW CARD! A cheap shot on Carlos Ruiz, turns his back and elbows him. Sent off!
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Why oh why is Le Toux freekicking? Oh why oh why is he?
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Second @PhilaUnion sub: will be Michael Farfan in a minute, according to the broadcasting team.
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Yellow card to Boggs or Daniel?
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I thought it was to Boggs, but the way that he spun towards Daniel after holding the card up makes me think otherwise.
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Kevin Kinkead on Twitter says it was to Daniel.
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Yellow card given to a NER player for… something.
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
Nakazawa with a low shot, handled by Reis.
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Ruiz off
M. Farfan on
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According to @PhilUnionKevinK, yellow was to Keon Daniel. Press box was told that.
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Carlos Ruiz off for Michael Farfan. Ruiz has words with Nowak, clearly not happy with coming out in the 73rd.
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Union broadcast said those words were for Nichol, not Nowak.
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Nicol, excuse me.
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Really.
Very interesting.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Daniel to Carroll to Michael Farfan… gets blocked by the NER defense.
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Sebastian Le Toux is jinxed
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Valdes backheel to Le Toux leads to a saved shot and then another Union shot. And another attempt. All kept out.
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
Have to think that Valdes was a striker or midfielder for a good part of his youth. Too much flair for a center back.
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
That’s a good save by Reis. Corner for the Union.
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.@SheanonWilliams rips a shot at the rightside upper-90, Reis gets his fingertips to it.
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Daniel off
Miglioranzi on
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.@MarkSakers gets his meow from @TaylorTwellman. #doop
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"College is only 4 years, but the Eagles are for life." - Ironhank
Great Super Troopers reference from @TaylorTwellman on air. Thank the funny @MarkSakers for that one.
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by Scott Kessler on Jul 17, 2011 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Williams scores on a breakaway. That’s a rather fitting ending in the last minute of stoppage time.
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SHEANON WILLIAMS ENDS IT WITH A GOAL!
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Well that was an interesting change of pace after that women’s World Cup thriller.
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Yes it was. Union simply took care of business. Nice, eh?
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