{"id":12180,"date":"2012-05-20T17:58:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2012-05-20T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T22:08:00","slug":"player-ratings-new-england-revolution-vs-houston-dynamo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=12180","title":{"rendered":"Player Ratings: New England Revolution vs. Houston Dynamo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saer Sene led the Revolution charge with two goals in Saturday's 2-2 draw to Houston. (Photo: Chris Aduama\/aduama.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

After each match the contributors to New England Soccer Today will rate the performances of the New England Revolution players who made an appearance on a 1 to 10 scale (1 horrendous, 5 average, 10 perfection). This week Brian O\u2019Connell and Ryan Lanigan contributed ratings for New England’s 2-2 draw with the Houston Dynamo.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nMatt Reis – Average Rating: 5<\/strong> (Brian 5, Ryan 5)
\nCommand of the area wasn’t exceptional, and looked flat footed on Camargo’s goal at the near post. Not his best night. (Brian) … Not too much for Reis to do. I’m not sure many goalies would have saved Camargo’s late equalizer. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Chris Tierney – Average Rating: 5.75<\/strong> (Brian 6, Ryan 5.5)
\nStruggled a bit against Carr, but made some nice runs forward, and helped set up the penalty in the 25th minute. Looked good on set pieces, too. (Brian) … \u00a0As usual, he did well to get forward. His set pieces weren’t terrible, but nothing came of it. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Stephen McCarthy – Average Rating: 5.25<\/strong> (Brian 5, Ryan 5.5)
\nGlaring mistake on Camargo goal, but he did an admirable job of canceling Ching for much of the evening. \u00a0(Brian) … He made a mistake on the equalizer but it wasn’t\u00a0solely\u00a0his fault. He did well beyond that play the rest of the game.<\/p>\n

AJ Soares – Average Rating: 5.5<\/strong> (Brian 6, Ryan 5)
\nStrong against Bruin, and organized the rear well before Houston’s second goal. (Brian) … Anchored the back line again. It looks like it might have been Soares trying to cover Bruin on the first Houston goal, though. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Kevin Alston – Average Rating: 5.5<\/strong> (Brian 6, Ryan 5)
\nAnother strong performance; kept Davis quiet from the run of play and helped shut down Houston’s left flank. (Brian) … \u00a0He did well for the most of the game, but got beat a couple times and is a ghost when pushing forward in the final third. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Lee Nguyen – Average Rating: 6.25<\/strong> (Brian 6.5, Ryan 6)
\nAttacking catalyst all night, and helped contain Carr, who was clearly frustrated by it. \u00a0(Brian) … Whenever the Revs had a solid attack, it seemed to start on his side of the field, or by him creating space to stretch the field. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Ryan Guy – Average Rating: 5.5<\/strong> (Brian 5, Ryan 6)
\nHard for him to channel Simms in an unfamiliar role. Weak challenge on the duel with Colin Clark led to the Camargo goal. (Brian) … Tough shoes to fill but he did well and more importantly, he went a full 90. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Shalrie Joseph – Average Rating: 6.5<\/strong> (Brian 7, Ryan 6)
\nA beast in the midfield; sound passing, bolstered the team in transition, and knocked on the door early. (Brian) … He did well defensively but his first touch seemed to be a bit off. He did well to organize the team, though. \u00a0(Ryan)<\/p>\n

Benny Feilhaber – Average Rating: 4.75<\/strong> (Brian 4.5, Ryan 5)
\nSharp form early gave way to more frustration in the second half. Passes were off and coughed it up too often. (Brian) … There are times that fans will want to see that kind of passion from Benny, but I’m not sure if he channeled it the right way. Otherwise, average game. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Saer Sene – Average Rating: 7.25<\/strong> (Brian 7.5, Ryan 7)
\nBrilliant performance; most dangerous player on the field, had a sensational finish on the second goal, and played some good balls to teammates. (Brian) … He’s pretty good with the ball at his feet, but he turned it over early. He did well though and was easily the best player on the field. (Ryan)<\/p>\n

Blake Brettschneider – Average Rating: 6<\/strong> (Brian 6, Ryan 6)
\nDespite the indecisive marking on Bruin’s goal, he put himself in good positions and pestered the Dynamo all night. (Brian) … A lot of credit has to go to him for the Revs second goal. He tangled with Geoff Cameron at midfield, allowing Sene to take control. \u00a0(Ryan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saer Sene was our Man of the Match for Saturday’s game against Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12188,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Saer39.png?fit=472%2C277&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12195,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions\/12195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}