Columbus Crew vs Orlando City SC MLS Regular Season Match – Saturday, May 25, 7:30 PM – INTER&Co Stadium Broadcast: Apple TV, Alt 105.7, La Grande 102.5 Odds: Columbus +240 | Draw +250 | Orlando -105 Vitals: Columbus Crew 21 PTS / 13 G / 1.62 PPG | 5W-2L-6D | 19 GF / 13 GA / 6 GD | Last 5: W-W-L-D-D Orlando City 16 PTS / 13 G / 1.23 PPG | 4W-5L-4D | 15 GF / 20 GA / -5 GD | Last 5: W-D-W-L-L Goal Leaders: Columbus Crew Cucho - 4 Russell-Rowe - 3 Arfsten, Hinestroza, Morris, Rossi - 2 Not-so-secret track. Orlando City McGuire - 5 Lynn, Muriel - 2 Angulo, Brekalo, Lodeiro, Thorhallsson, Torres - 1 Previous Meeting: MLS Cup Playoffs - Eastern Conference Semifinals November 25, 2023 – Exploria Stadium Columbus Crew 2, Orlando City 0 Notes: Woo. Discuss. Bonus track.
I can see giving up eleventy billion... but also see scoring eleventy billion and one. So, win by one and hope that JRR or Hinestroza don't offer up any last minute heroics again.
A quick scan of the ref assignment and the prop might be in play. Also Whigfield claimed that she didn't do the Saturday Night dance routine. I don't believe her
This game scares me some... Orlando hasn't been good at home but has been decent against good teams (Cincy/Orlando) as of recent. We have won our last 2 road games after nothing on the road in the past. We have the "Challenge for the Continent" or whatever it's called coming up.. I can see us looking past this game and losing 2-1 on a last minute ORL goal.
Don’t feel bad. I can’t believe the match will be that chippy. We’re good, Orlando sucks, we’re not playing FCKY, we’re not playing a Mexican team. >18 fouls and 3 yellows is a lot.
Now if it's one yellow and a straight red or two yellows and a red... Nope! Three yellows = yellow yellow yellow. (Two yellows = one red, amirite?)
I thought so too. For this, I did some background investigating and realized that the Crew get fouled a lot... and I mean a lot. Admittedly my research took all of 5 minutes, but it is safe to say that this prop hits far more often this year than it misses.
Specifically, Columbus has suffered the second most fouls in MLS. Nagbe,Morris and Rossi are all in the top 20, and Cucho would be too if he hadn't missed so many games. Yeboah as well; someone is always knocking him down, but he doesn't seem to be starting as much. But it's to be expected. It's hard to beat Columbus on talent, and they're overall pretty fast. Fouling g teams like that is the time honored tactic when playing a side that's just better than you. The solution of course is a referee with some balls, but MLS is short on them. Most of them seem to have forgotten the persistent infringement rule is still in the book.
We're seeing this more and more in world soccer--unless the person being fouled is famous--and liked. Kinda like the Gretzky "rule". You couldn't even breathe on him whereas guys like Lindros got hammered (and eventually concussed out of the game). Mind you, in Gretzky's first couple of years. you couldn't even get close enough to breathe on him, much less hit him--to be fair.
IDK what I was thinking, I am not going to this one. I do have a good friend on the Gulf Coast, but not visiting for this one.
From: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5516997/2024/05/24/mls-time-wasting-rules/ So, even a less than average number of fouls and cards will hit the prop bet.
That's some fancy shit there. I'm of course going. May even have to crash one of those NorOnTour events earlier in the day.