Revs prepare for expansion Timbers

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By Danny Picard
CSNNE.com

Saturdays match between the New England Revolution and the Portland Timbers will be a tale of two stories.

The Revs enter the game unbeaten through their first two contests, with a 1-0-1 record, and are in a three-way tie for second place in the Eastern Conference, with the Chicago Fire and the New York Red Bulls. Each team has four points.

The Timbers, on the other hand, enter Saturday nights match winless through their first two games, and are tied with Chivas USA for last place in the Western Conference. They are the only two teams in the MLS that have zero points.

Portland is an expansion team. New England is an improving team. Saturday will be the first time these two organizations meet.

That bodes well for the Revolution, because since the MLS got serious about expansion in 2005, the Revs are 5-0-2 in their first meetings with expansion teams. They outscored their expansion opponents 14-3 in those seven matches.

--New England will be without defender Franco Coria (hamstring), and midfielders
Ousmane Dabo (quadriceps) and Marko Perovic (hamstring).

Perovic trained at one point during the week, but Revolution coach Steve Nicol said
its unlikely that hell play against Portland on Saturday.

--The Revolution announced Thursday that they have signed defender Otto Loewy. He is a permanent U.S. Resident and will count as a domestic player on the roster. He will join the team following next weeks trip to Vancouver.

The Revs also announced on Thursday that they have waived second-year defender Seth Sinovic.

Danny Picard is on Twitter at http:twitter.comDannyPicard. You can listen to Danny on his streaming radio show I'm Just Sayin'Monday-Friday from 9-10 a.m. on CSNNE.com.

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