It was the best 90 minutes the New York Red Bulls have played in 2017. Don’t @ me.
RBNY traveled to Boston with a severely depleted squad to play New England Revolution on a shabby carpet at Harvard University. The starting lineup revealed what many students of the Red Bulls’ squad suspected: call-ups and injuries had savaged the team’s defensive options.
And yet the patchwork back line held its own and the Revs were kept off the board, meaning Bradley Wright-Phillips’ 87th-minute goal was the match-winner - and RBNY will play in the semifinals of US Open Cup for the first time since 2003.