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The Revolution offense came alive in a 3-0 win over PDL side FC Tucson in Saturday’s Desert Diamond Cup finale at Kino North Stadium in Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n

Teal Bunbury opened the scoring in the 30th minute while Kelyn Rowe scribbled his name on the sheet in the 51st minute. Sean Okoli capped it with a 91st minute strike while Bobby Shuttleworth helped the Revolution claim their first clean sheet of the winter.<\/p>\n

With the win, the Revolution finish the preseason with a 3-2-1 record. Okoli and Charlie Davies both led the club in scoring this winter with each grabbing two goals. <\/p>\n

Pitted against PDL competition, the Revolution predictably controlled much of the match, and wasted no time in doing so, either. Revolution coach Jay Heaps fielded a first-choice lineup, and the regulars went to work early.<\/p>\n

Diego Fagundez combined with Juan Agudelo early, and the Revolution striker found no fewer than three scoring opportunities during the first half. At the half-hour mark, Agudelo set up Bunbury on a well-weighted through ball, which the Revolution winger sent through to put the Revolution on top.<\/p>\n

Tucson’s best chance came in the 60th minute, when Dominic Papa pierced through to the defense and blasted a shot that strayed just wide of the post.<\/p>\n

The Revolution’s second goal also came from an unusual sequence in which Rowe fired a looping ball that appeared to seek out a teammate. But instead, the ball dropped into the back of the net to double the lead.<\/p>\n

Heaps made a slew of substitutions after the hour, and one of them – Okoli – went on to score the final goal of the preseason in stoppage time<\/p>\n

The Revolution will kick off the regular season on Mar. 8 against the Seattle Sounders at CenturyLink Field. Kickoff is set for 9:30pm ET. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three different players found the back of the net in the Revs’ preseason finale on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1006,891,49,888,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aNDREW-2.png?fit=600%2C416","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32105"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32118,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32105\/revisions\/32118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}