March 13, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – New England Revolution News Release
ALAJUELA, Costa Rica – The New England Revolution are in Costa Rica to battle Liga Deportiva Alajuelense in Leg 2 of the 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup Round of 16 on Thursday, March 14. The Revolution carry a 4-0 aggregate lead into the decisive away match, which kicks off at 8:00 p.m. ET at Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto and airs nationally in the United States on FOX Sports 2 (English) and TUDN (Spanish). Listen locally on the radio in Portuguese on 1260 AM “Nossa Radio USA”.
New England holds the upper hand in the aggregate series after posting a dominant shutout victory in the first leg at Gillette Stadium on March 6. Nick Lima opened the scoring from his right back position for New England, netting his first goal with the club on DeJuan Jones’ assist. Following the connection between the Revolution’s outside defenders, forward Tomás Chancalay netted a brace and midfielder Esmir Bajraktarević opened his 2024 account to seal the win, which marked the Revolution’s highest scoring output in its 11 all-time Champions Cup matches. Bajraktarević, who turned 19 on Sunday, has now found the scoresheet in three of his last four games played with one goal and two assists.
With Chancalay’s two-goal performance in last week’s victory, the 25-year-old now has four tallies in the competition, tied with Philadelphia’s Julián Carranza for the tournament lead. Including MLS play, the Argentinian striker has recorded three two-goal performances since joining New England last August. Chancalay has been named Concacaf’s Player of the Match twice in his first three appearances in the tournament. His attacking partner Carles Gil has also been finding the back of the net with two goals in MLS play. Gil has found the scoresheet in three of his last four appearances. The Spaniard needs only one more goal to become the fifth Revolution player with 40 goals and 40 assists in all competitions.
Through three matches in the continental tournament, New England has yet to concede a goal and is outscoring its Champions Cup opponents by an 8-0 margin. No other team has posted three straight shutouts in this year’s competition. Goalkeeper Henrich Ravas was the backstop in goal for New England for all three clean sheets, totaling six saves, while central defender Dave Romney has also played every minute of the season thus far. Matt Polster, DeJuan Jones, Chancalay, and Nacho Gil have also started all three…
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