The Revolution were short Kelyn Rowe as he was playing internationally and Diego Fagundez as he was serving a one-game suspension. With the Revs missing two major parts of their roster it was incredibly hard for them to get anything going, The Philadelphia Union was all over the Revs beating them 3 to 0 Sunday night.
The Revs were not just short Rowe and Fagundez as a total of six players were missing due to international games, injuries, or suspensions. Unfortunately, the Revs would let this opportunity slip away and they would not be able to pass the Philadelphia Union in the standings tonight.
Philadelphia got the scoring going early after Revolution defender was called for a handball in the box giving Philadelphia a penalty kick. C.J. Sapong would convert on that penalty kick and four minutes into the game the Union was up 1-0 and they would not look back.
llsinho scored for the Union in the 48th minute and Ronald Alberg would put the icing on the cake making it 3-0 in the 78th minute.
“Opportunities (were there) for guys to step up,” said head coach Jay Heaps. “There’s going to be no excuses from our end.”
“I just think too many guys weren’t up for the challenge,” added midfielder Donnie Smith. “That was one of the keys that we talked about before the game; we’ve got to win the battle before we can play the game. There were too many pieces, and we just didn’t win the battle individually.”
With this loss, the Revolution are still struggling to find their first road win of the season as they are now 0-7-3 away from Gillette Stadium. Overall with this loss the Revolution fall to 10th place at 5-8-5.
For the Philadelphia Union, they will pass the Revolution in the East and will sit in 8th place at 6-7-4.
The Revolution will next come home to Gillette Stadium to take on the New York Red Bulls on Wednesday, July 5th at 7:30 pm.
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