New England Revolution fall 1-0 at FC Cincinnati

CINCINNATI AP Sergio Santos scored in the second half and Roman Celentano made it stand up as FC Cincinnati edged New England - beating the Revolution at TQL Stadium for the first time on Saturday night Neither organization scored until Santos took a pass from Pavel Bucha in the th minute and uncovered the net for the first time this season Santos has scored eight of his career goals in three seasons with Cincinnati - - The rest of them came in four seasons with the Philadelphia Union Bucha s assist was his third of the season after notching five in career starts last season Celentano finished with three saves in posting his third clean sheet of the season for Cincinnati It was his th shutout in his th career start Aljaz Ivacic saved four shots in goal for the Revolution - - Ivacic had two saves and Celentano one in a scoreless first half New England was the only Eastern Conference club that Cincinnati had not beaten at home after entering play - - all time Cincinnati improves to - - at home and won for the first time this season without K vin Denkey scoring the winner Cincinnati coach Pat Noonan was a first-round pick of the Revolution in when he was the runner-up for rookie of the year It was the club s th match since joining the league in Cincinnati is - - overall but - - under Noonan The club is also - in one-goal matches since nobody else has won even New England has scored just four goals in its second season under Caleb Porter Ivacic has surrendered seven goals in six starts The Revolution excursion to play Atlanta United on Saturday Cincinnati travels to play D C United on Saturday