MLS Weekly Preview & Broadcast Info
Published on August 1, 2007 under Major League Soccer (MLS) News Release
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Thursday, August 2, 2007
Kansas City Wizards at New England Revolution - ESPN2
Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Mass. - 7 p.m.
Complete game guide: http://web.mlsnet.com/pdf/mls/2007/gameguides/08/802nekc.pdf
When the two teams last met, it was one of the more remarkable games ever in MLS, as Eddie Johnson scored his first hat trick to lead the Kansas City Wizards to a 4-3 win against the New England Revolution. Now the teams come together as the top in the Eastern Conference, separated by just one point. For the Wizards, this is the first leg of a home-and-home series with the Revs; New England, however, has three more games in the two-plus weeks between. For New England to maintain its lead in the East entering the weekend, the Revolution will have to do something, though, they haven't done in some time: they haven't defeated Kansas City in two-plus years, and their last home win in the series came in 1999, at the old Foxboro Stadium.
REFEREE: Brian Hall. SAR (bench): Greg Barkey; JAR (opposite): Thomas Supple; 4th: Erich Simmons
MLS Career: 131 games; FC/gm: 28.9; Y/gm: 3.2; R: 33; pens: 39
Games involving Revolution: P22 W12 L5 T5 FC/gm: 29.0; Y/gm: 3.2; R: 6; pens: 5
Games involving Wizards: P20 W7 L8 T5 FC/gm: 26.4; Y/gm: 2.7; R: 3; pens: 5
INJURY REPORT:
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION - OUT: MF Joe Franchino (R peroneal tendon surgery); DOUBTFUL: FW Arsene Oka (R MCL sprain); QUESTIONABLE: Chris Loftus (L quadriceps strain); PROBABLE:GK Doug Warren (concussion)
KANSAS CITY WIZARDS - OUT: MF Ryan McMahen (torn ACL); FW Scott Sealy (adductor strain); FW Willy Guadarrama (quadriceps strain); DF Aaron Hohlbein (hamstring strain); PROBABLE: FW Eddie Johnson (lower back contusion); MF Michael Harrington (hamstring strain)
SUSPENDED: none
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: NE: Andy Dorman ... KC: Davy Arnaud, Jose Burciaga Jr., Jack Jewsbury
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: NE: Jay Heaps, Avery John, Jeff Larentowicz, James Riley, Wells Thompson ... KC: Nick Garcia, Eddie Johnson, Carlos Marinelli, Kerry Zavagnin
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (30 meetings): Revolution 8 wins (1 shootout), 38 goals ... Wizards 15 wins (1 shootout), 48 goals ... Ties 7
AT NEW ENGLAND (16 meetings): Revolution 4 wins (1 shootout), 22 goals ... Wizards 8 wins (0 shootout), 29 goals ... Ties 4
- This is the second of three meetings between the teams this season, the second of two to be played in the Bay State. They next meet in the lone encounter at Arrowhead Stadium, set for Aug. 19 - the next league game for the Wizards (though the Revolution have three more in between).
- A year ago, the teams played to draws in three of their four meetings, including both games in Foxborough. The Wizards took the season series in the first meeting of the season in Kansas City. No team scored more than a single goal in any of the four meetings.
- New England hasn't won in the series in the last seven meetings, since a 2-0 win on June 11, 2005. The teams have played to draws in four of their last six games, with the Wizards winning the other three.
- The Revolution haven't defeated the Wizards at home since Sept. 7, 1999. In the seven-plus seasons since, the Wizards have won seven of the meetings, with four draws. The Revolution have never defeated Kansas City at Gillette Stadium/cmgi Field. All four New England wins in the series came at the old Foxboro Stadium.
- Coaches record: Steve Nicol v KC: P16 W2 L7 D7 ... Curt Onalfo vs. NE: P1 W1 L0 D0
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