Note: This was written before Brad Friedel's firing.
Things are scary for the soccer club over on Route 1. New England fell to the Chicago Fire in a mid-week matchup that left fans, media, and probably the staff/players themselves wondering just how bad things may get during the 2019 season. Brad Friedel and Co. were outwitted, outclassed, and utterly embarrassed on their way to collecting the league's worst goal differential.
Let's look at the starting 11...
Headshots from revolutionsoccer.net.
Juan Fernando Caicedo
Carles Gil
Diego Fagundez
Tajon Buchanan
Wilfried Zahibo
Luis Caicedo
Andrew Farrell
Antonio Delamea
Edgar Castillo
Jalil Anibaba
TAKEAWAYS
Direct play early in the game:
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Matt Turner
David Ousted
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Breaking down Chicago's movement
Carles Gil
Juan Fernando Caicedo
Dax McCarty
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Johan Kappelhof
Przemyslaw Frankowski
The stretched game:
TWO UP
Note: I'm picking the best of the worst here.
Carles Gil
Diego Fagundez
THREE DOWN
Andrew Farrell
Antonio Delamea
Nicolas Gaitan
Juan Fernando Caicedo
PLAYER RATINGS
PARTING THOUGHT