FOXBOROUGH -- We are just past the hour of 5 on this beautiful Sunday evening, Oct. 14, and media voting just closed for the 2018 Revolution Defender of the Year Award. Voting started just before 4 p.m. on Oct. 2 via SurveyMonkey, and my fellow Blue Level Denizens and I had five options from which to choose this year:
- Andrew Farrell
- Jalil Anibaba
- Antonio Delamea
- Claude Dielna
- Brandon Bye
patheticness
A.J. Soares
- Only played 22 minutes of the season opener; red carded for denial of an obvious goal-scoring opportunity — that wasn’t defense, that was a mugging
- Freezing and not tracking back on Josef Martinez in the home Atlanta game
- Handling against Philadelphia at home
- Own goal against Columbus
- Generally slow in tracking back
- Couldn’t contain NYCFC at Yankee Stadium; slow in trying to stop NYCFC at home in March
- Constant giveaways
- Had a couple of good months of play, but that doesn’t outweigh any of the above
- Was promising at left back, but gave up a horrid goal to Aleksander Katai
- Had 27 blocks, which was an up for him, BUT…
- Switched off on the LA throw-in which led to the match-winner on July 14
- Slow to react on Philadelphia’s second goal on Aug. 11
- Did not crack back fast enough on Cory Burke’s goal against Philadelphia on Aug. 25
- Found himself bullied off the ball by Dom Dwyer in Orlando
- Put the Revs down to nine men against Philadelphia in the opener
- Generally played without tact #HandsLikeACementTruck
- Was at the heart of the 1-0 loss to Dallas, ball-watching
- Was at the heart of the 3-2 loss to the Galaxy, not clearing set pieces
Tom Brady/David Ortiz/Ted Williams/Larry Bird/Bill Russell/Bobby Orr
Tom Benedetto
