The weather was beyond cold, the refereeing was atrocious and the Revs managed to eek out a win after a truly ugly first half, all in all not a bad way to start off the home game season for 2009-2010.
Let’s just jump in and discuss the first half and get it over with. The back line was incredibly shaky with marking pretty non-existent. Lucky for the Revs, Knighton was up to the challenge of playing goalkeeper for a team that consistently let Van den Berg cross the ball across the goal. While Knighton may not be as conservative a goalkeeper as Reis, he kept the Revs in the game last night and will make this Revs fan a little less nervous about Reis’ injury status. With regards to the offense the passing game that the Revs play so beautifully was MIA.
The subbing in of Ralston for Tierney at halftime along with what were undoubtedly some choice words from Nichols to his team gave us a truly entertaining second half. Nyassi charged out and scored the first home goal of the season a little over 10 minutes into the first half off a beautiful pass by Joseph and then almost immediately went on a run and scored again. The referee Silviu Petrescu called the second goal back Petrescu called back goals in the second half like he gave out yellow cards in the first, often and without reason. The official second goal scored by the Revs was off a professionally taken pk by Ralston given for a pull down in the box.
The real standouts in the second half for me were Larentowicz who played hard for every ball in the middle and made excellent passes and Barnes who seemed to control and direct the back line better once it was reduced to three.
All and all it looks like the Revs will be fielding a great team and I’m looking forward to watching them in hopefully above freezing temperatures the rest of the season.
-Jenni
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