Welcome to Tactical Sips, a semi-regular pre-match post featuring taurine-spiked breakdowns of the upcoming game.
Three goals proved an insurmountable mid-week deficit, with the New York Red Bulls not completing the comeback against the New England Revolution. The league’s best team at the peak of a three-year cycle will only be brought down by a much stronger performance, a looming playoff threat to be avoided for as long as possible. The match had a little bit of everything, from catastrophic failures to omens of a hopeful future, a better showing than the previous meeting.