#NERevs96: A Crash to the Clash
- Updated: May 4, 2016
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(Editor’s note: To commemorate the Revolution’s first season – which also happened to be the inaugural year of MLS play – NESoccerToday.com will be posting a brief snapshot of each of the club’s first 32 games on its respective 20th anniversary. Today, we look back at the first home loss in club history.)
May 4, 1996
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – It wasn’t for lack of ambition that the Revolution weren’t able to come out victorious in their second home match of the season.
Despite outshooting their foes 17-3 and orchestrating a furious drive in the final 10 minutes, New England simply wasn’t as clinical as San Jose and as a result, suffered a 2-1 loss before 16,334 fans on Saturday at Foxboro Stadium.
“We’re going to go back and look at all those stupid little statistics now,” Revolution defender Alexi Lalas told the media after the match. “They had [three] shots, we controlled the ball for 90 percent of the time, and we had loads of chances.”
Eric Wynalda opened the scoring in the 23rd minute while Paul Bravo widened the gap in the 70th minute. Geoff Aunger brought one back from the spot in the 86th minute, but that was the closest the Revolution came to forcing a shootout.
Aunger’s strike came in the middle of a 10-minute spell in which Darren Sawatzky fired a pair of shots on the Clash goal that weren’t far from putting the Revolution on level terms.
“That’s the game on the road,” San Jose coach Laurie Calloway told the media after the match. “You have to come in and expect to get pressured. We weathered the storm, and when we got the goal we were in the driver’s seat.”
With the loss, the Revolution drop to 2-2 on the season. They’ll face the Columbus Crew at Ohio Stadium on Saturday, May 11.
Roster news: The Revolution officially signed goalkeeper Adrian Heaney from the Carolina Dynamo of the A-League on May 1, and waived goalkeeper Jim Adams on May 2…
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