“The most important [thing] in football is you need to play 90 minutes, not 75,” he said on Wednesday, days after returning from Seattle. “This was a big lesson for us, I hope. This will never happen again."
Up 3-0 in the 75th minute, the Revolution looked destined to pick up a convincing win over one of the league’s premier clubs. And then the Sounders scored three unanswered goals to force a 3-3 draw.
Following the match, Juan Agudelo, Jay Heaps and several other members of the Revolution identified fatigue as the root cause of the meltdown.