New England's Peyton Miller, left and Esmir Bajraktarevic celebrate the Revs' first win of the MLS season Saturday night at Gillette Stadium. (Photo courtesy of NE Revolution)

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Carles Gil scored moments before halftime, Henrich Ravas had three saves and New England beat Charlotte FC 1-0 Saturday night for the Revolution’s first win of the season.

Gil opened the scoring in first-half stoppage time with a goal on the counter-attack. Charlotte’s Jere Uronen, in the attacking third, had the ball stolen by Nacho Gil, the younger brother of Carles, and Giacomo Vrioni ran onto the loose ball, leading a New England breakaway before passing to Carles on the right wing. The elder Gil played a ball that led Nacho to corner of the 6-yard box, where his one-touch shot was parried by goalkeeper Kristijan Kahlina, but Carles put away the rebound with a first-timer that slipped inside the far post.

“Great finish out of (Gil),” Revs coach Caleb Porter said. “I thought he had a good game, a really good game. … He went back to being Carles, and I thik there were guys in the past several games that I thought were at times trying to overdo it. …

“We got back to just being a good defensive team, play in transition, but get a clean sheet, score the first goal and get a win.”

Gil felt the same way.

“We’ve had a difficult start to the season, but we know that tonight was an important game for us, to bring our confidence up and to be strong(at home),” Gil said. “We want to be strong here to be one of the best teams in the league.”

Kristijan Kahlina had two saves for Charlotte (2-3-2).

New England (1-4-1) — which snapped a four-game losing streak with a 1-1 tie against Chicago last week, led Nacho Gil’s first MLS goal — is unbeaten in back-to-back games.

The Revolution’s Giacomo Vrioni bounced a shot from the center of the area off the crossbar in the 21st minute.

Ravas, a 26-year-old in his rookie MLS campaign, had his first shut out of the season.

Charlotte’s only win in the series came in 2022 — its inaugural campaign — and was the franchise’s first-ever win. The Revolution have won four in a row since.

(Telegraph Staff Writer Tom King contributed to this report.)

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