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“Noel, I thought played a complete game,” said Revs coach Bruce Arena, who took care to note that he started three teenage homegrowns in his midfield. “For the first 60 minutes he was probably our best player. … Noel has played in every game to date, and I think he’s probably started three or four of the games … so he’s earned our trust long ago.”

As Buck himself noted to MLSsoccer.com postgame, Arena is no soft touch when it comes to making young’uns earn their minutes.

“With Bruce, he’s always going to have high expectations,” Buck said. “He’s not going to put on a player just to play him. In a way it kind of sucks sometimes, but that’s how it has to be. You have to work really hard to get on the field.”

Also, a quick mea culpa from the YPPOTW supreme committee. In listing Buck as one of our candidates for breakout homegrown player of 2023, we suggested he might be ready to move across the Atlantic after he turns 18. But Buck himself set the record straight: He already has a United Kingdom passport and thus swings a transfer basically whenever someone in Britain meets the Revolution’s expectations for a fee – a number which might just be growing steadily.