TUCSON, Ariz. – The objective of preseason matches is to identify positives and negatives, and New England Revolution head coach Jay Heaps saw plenty of both in Saturday afternoon’s 3-1 loss to the Colorado Rapids.
Led by the attacking quintet of Lee Nguyen, Kei Kamara, Juan Agudelo, Diego Fagundez and Kelyn Rowe, the Revs were sharp through the opening 40 minutes, scoring through Agudelo and generating a host of other clear-cut chances with sharp passing and fluid movement.
But all of that work was undone in a matter of moments as the Revs conceded in both the 44th and 45th minutes, turning a would-be halftime lead into a halftime deficit.