{"id":37657,"date":"2015-08-15T09:55:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37657"},"modified":"2015-08-15T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:55:14","slug":"five-questions-nevhou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37657","title":{"rendered":"Five Questions: #NEvHOU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Saturday’s lone meeting of the regular season between the Revolution and Dynamo, let’s\u00a0dive studs up into this week’s set of questions.<\/p>\n

1. Will Kelyn Rowe be back in the XI?<\/strong> Based on his last 110 minutes of action, the answer appears to be a firm\u00a0‘yes.’ Since coming off the bench late in Chicago, the fourth-year midfielder’s scored, assisted, and drawn a penalty for good measure.\u00a0In other words, he’s doing a lot of things right after struggling to find his form earlier this summer. In light of that, the chances of\u00a0seeing no. 11 on the wing come 7:30pm(ish) on Saturday\u00a0is very\u00a0high.<\/p>\n

2. Does Jeremy Hall hold onto the starting right back’s spot for a fourth straight week?<\/strong> It certainly seems like he will. After riding the pine for much of the season, the converted fullback has stepped up and ripped the spot away from the once-promising\u00a0London Woodberry. The former Toronto FC midfielder isn’t flashy, nor is he much of a threat going forward. Heck, there are times in which it seems the offense willingly casts him as an afterthought when advancing the ball.\u00a0Nevertheless,\u00a0Hall does something that Woodberry hasn’t done nearly enough this summer: he limits his mistakes. Sometimes, that’s all it comes down to when a spot in the XI is up for grabs.<\/p>\n

3. How long will Jermaine Jones play?<\/strong> The prized midfielder was asked that very question on Tuesday, and he estimated 60 minutes. That not long after, Heaps was posed the same query, he\u00a0gave\u00a0a range of between 30 to 60 to 90 minutes. To the best of our knowledge,\u00a0the Jay Heaps\u00a0bobblehead\u00a0was not asked for comment, but then again,\u00a0bobbleheads don’t talk. They just nod in agreement. To everything. Anywho, given that Jones and his teammates had an additional week of rest thanks to the bye, we’ll take a shot and say\u00a0he goes 75 minutes before exiting for Daigo Kobayashi.<\/p>\n

4. Can the defense keep Will Bruin and Giles Barnes off the board?<\/strong> The answer to this one partly depends upon whether Hall can continue to avoid the game-changing gaffe. Barnes has given pure defenders plenty of nightmares this season, so you can imagine the potential\u00a0terror that awaits a fullback-but-not-really-a-fullback. Ditto for Bruin, who appears to be hitting his stride as the Dynamo have started to put together results. Yes, the Revolution can keep the Dynamo duo off the board, but\u00a0it may take a couple of\u00a0MLS Team of the Week-worthy\u00a0performances in the rear\u00a0to do so.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Is the offense poised for another strong performance?<\/strong> If you’re starting to get the vibe that we’re in 2014 all over again, it’s probably not just because of the Revolution’s recently-snapped summertime slide (knock on wood). Or the stadium rumors (yeah, those again). After struggling to\u00a0score for much of the season, Lee Nguyen has hit his stride by tallying\u00a0in each of his last three. Then, there’s Charlie Davies, who just bagged his first regular season brace for the locals two weeks ago.\u00a0\u00a0Although the Dynamo aren’t terrible on the road this year, they’ll be facing a squad that’s fresh off a long-awaited bye week, and by all accounts, hungry to poke holes through\u00a0an opposing\u00a0backline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What questions surround the Revs heading into Saturday’s contest against the Dynamo?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37658,"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":[891,46,1274,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Diego-1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37657"}],"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=37657"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37669,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37657\/revisions\/37669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}