FOXBOROUGH — Two takeaways from Saturday's 3-1 Revs win, and two more takes — one newsy, one hard-hitting — from the weekend that was in Revolution Colony:
That’s AirAgudelo taking off on runway 17, baby
We have said on numerous occasions that Juan Agudelo couldn’t find the back of the net if you pointed it out to him, especially given a couple of sitters missed against Philadelphia a week ago. And the Gillette Stadium nets haven’t been too kind, either. In fact, Swaggy hadn’t scored here at home since the second match from last season, the 2-2 draw against New York City FC.
On that one, the sequence was pretty sweet: Wilfried Zahibo had won the ball at the midway line near the touchline, and he had sent a booming volley to Cristian Penilla. The Ecuadorian had a lot of space with which to work on that, and he wound up crossing to a hard-charging Agudelo.
Agudelo rose and made the back of the onion bag burp with a cracking header.
On Saturday, something pretty similar occurred:
Carles Gil had a nifty run, and San Jose wound up conceding a throw-in. Throw-in happens, Edgar Castillo rolls around the corner and, with Quakes left back Nick Lima sleeping, Agudelo raced forward, rose, and karate-kicked the ball in to give the hosts a 1-0 lead.
#NERevs gets it going early! @JuanAgudelo nets his second goal of the season! #NEvSJ pic.twitter.com/PLVYwQKKkr
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 12, 2019