BSJ Match Report: Revolution 2, Houston 1 - Arena's second-half subs the difference in big win taken at Gillette Stadium (Revolution)

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BSJ Match Report: Revolution 2, Houston 1 - Arena's second-half subs the difference in big win

By Sean Sweeney

Jun 29, 2019 • 11:51 pm

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FOXBOROUGH — All you need to know about the Revolution’s 2-1 win over Houston Dynamo Saturday in quickie form, complete with BSJ insight and analysis:

HEADLINES

Delamea’s header pulls Revs level, Bunbury seals win at the death: The third straight corner was the charm for the Revolution to get a much-needed equalizer, and with the game just barely into second-half stoppage time, there was enough space to grab a much-needed match-winning goal. Antonio Delamea, who has dealt with injuries over the last seven weeks, headed home Diego Fagundez’s corner service in the 51st minute, leveling the match at 1-1 with over 40 minutes remaining. And try as they might and with Houston — which was playing its third road game in eight days and playing with a skeleton-like, makeshift XI — getting gassed in the last half an hour, Bruce Arena inserted Teal Bunbury (57th minute sub) and Cristian Penilla (61st) to get that final goal, and with chances feeling spent, a Penilla cross had Dynamo keeper Joe Willis out of position, and Bunbury had all the time in the world to slot home.






Revs extend unbeaten run to six straight in the league, climb to ninth in East:
Brad Friedel


Cerén scores off the corner for Houston:
Matt Turner
Darwin Cerén
Juan Fernando Caicedo




Six changes to the XI:
Justin Rennicks
DeJuan Jones
Carles Gil, Juan Agudelo, Andrew Farrell, Brandon Bye,
Luis Caicedo
Alberth Elis
Maynor Figueroa


THREE UP


Teal Bunbury:


Cristian Penilla:


Bruce Arena’s subs:
Jalil Anibaba


ONE DOWN


Juan Fernando Caicedo:
not


TWO TAKES THAT SWEENS MAY REGRET LATER


I don’t know if it’s really fair to criticize the social media team of the Revs,












Yep, I exhaled on Twitter before I got on the elevator to go down to the media workroom.


QUOTABLE QUOTES


“And that for me is all Penilla's work. I mean, he took on two, three guys, drove the keeper out with him, was able to chop it back. And you know, I had all the time in the world to kind of just make sure I was getting it on target.”
— Teal Bunbury


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