Superliga Final, Bitches!

The picture at right was an overly familiar scene in the New England Revolution vs. Atlante SuperLiga semifinal on Wednesday night. Shalrie Joseph scored on a header off the crossbar in the first half, there were approximately a bajillion yellow cards (or "tarjetas amarillos", as I re-learned in Spanish via the PA announcer this evening) prior to a late, headbutt-related red card (tarjeta roja) for Atlante, followed by a double yellow-leading to a red card for Atlante, followed by the Atlante assholes making their challenges more and more reprehensible, followed by a pair of postgame red cards for clinically obscene Jay Heaps and some dumbass Atlante thug. The fact that the Revolution won, 1-0, is almost a sidenote considering the animosity that was displayed at the match's end.

The extra fun layer of this exciting, chippy matchup that turned two teams into possible rivals is, if the Revolution can move past a Trinidad & Tobago club team in the prelims for the CONCACAF Champions League, they'll move into a group with Atlante in the next stage. Meaning these Mexcian assbags will come back to Foxboro, and we'll actually have to face these uber-bitches on their home pitch.

First things first, however. Now, the title game for SuperLiga is set for next Tuesday night, in Foxboro, against the motherfuckers that defeated the Revs in the MLS Cup in the last two years. We need to show that Sayid Jarrah-looking dickshit (Dwayne DeRosario) who the best team in MLS is this year. The Revs happened to crush them in league play back in March, 3-0, which was fantastic karmic retribution at the time, but with a trophy at stake on Tuesday there's a real chance to avenge some recent losses on home field.

The biggest challenge, as noted above, is that Jay Heaps got baited into throwing punches by a douchebag Atlante staffer, making him ineligible for the final. That combined with the fact that Michael Parkhurst is inhaling industrial quality smog in Beijing for the next 2-3 weeks means the defense is going to be extra suspect against DeRosario, Ching and the other Dynamo offenders. I like Jeff Laurentowicz as a midfielder, but he might end up being the key central defender in the final since he was playing so far back so consistently in the semifinal, and that is definitely going to be a liability against a quality MLS team in midseason form.