Charlotte @ Columbus Crew Date Wednesday July 17th Time:7:30EST Venue: LDC Field Columbus, Ohio TV coverage : MLS Season Pass on Apple TV Weather: High of 82, possible thunderstorms /Rain Series History: (W-D-L) Overall Record 1-2-2 Home Record 1-1-0 Playoffs N/A Recent History: The home team has never lost Last meeting @ Columbus 6/3/23 Crew won 4-2 Current Home/Away Form 2024 Crew Home 10th 6-3-1 (21pts) 2024 Charlotte Away 15th 4-1-6 (13pts) MLS Standings: Crew 6th (3rd East) Charlotte 12th (6th East) Points per gm Crew 2 (3rd) Charlotte 1.52 (11th) ESPN odds: too early Crew Draw Charlotte Likely we will be heavy favorite Uniforms : (I’m assuming) Crew:Yellow Charlotte: Purple Players not available: GK Schulte - Olympics CM Harbourne- u20 Winger/wingback -Hinestroza Red card suspension Injury Report: • Crew • OUT: Evan Bush (arm) • Charlotte • OUT: Junior Urso (lower leg)not sure when he is likely to return Subject to change (it’s early ) Line up: 3-4-3 Schulte Arfsten Cheberko /Amundsen Camacho Moreira Farsi Zawadzki Nagbe Rossi Cucho Ramírez Charlotte: PATRICK AGYEMANG- should be back after red card suspension. If he starts it could be their only change in the line up unless there was an injury. I didn’t watch their entire game and half watched once it was in the bag.I expect him to start but who knows what Dean Smith might do vrs us. Line up 4-2-3-1 Kalina Uronen Privett Malanda Byrne Diani Westwood Vargas Bronico Abada ST? Agyemang Glory to Columbus !
Is there a way to close the poll at exactly 729pm Wednesday instead of 927am? It says I can edit if not the Mods can fix it I’m also sure yall will hate the title thread because it’s normal.
I thought Cinci looked like the better team the majority of the time against Charolette. Cincinnati’s defense isn’t good and I think they’ll continue to slide as the season progresses. I like our chances here.
Hagen is obviously replacing Schulte, but you would expect a decent bit of rotation going on with possible starts for Yeboah, Cheberko, and Matan. Edit - though I guess Nancy said the rotation would usually come in the 3rd game. So maybe we'll see more changes at Atlanta.
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A win (knock on wood) and will we certainly jump at least ine of LAFC or RSL, as they play each other. Someone has to drop points. A draw and we could jump both. LAFC has 2 reds to deal with. I wonder if Messi will be good to go by Wed? I kind of doubt it. In either case, TFC should be a Miami win. Cincy likely to win home vs the Fire, though Robinson will be suspended. Galaxy host Colorado, but we have 3 GIH on them.
All comps, scoring: Player: G/A, PTS; GP/GS; MIN 1. Cucho: 14/9, 37; 22/20; 1,804 2. Rossi: 11/11, 33; 28/25; 2,301 3. Ramirez: 7/5, 19; 19/10; 930 ----------- 4. Morris: 3/8, 14; 22/20; 1,723 5. Russell-Rowe: 5/1, 11; 18/11; 1,030 6. Arfsten: 3/5, 11; 21/13; 1,159 7. Farsi: 3/4, 10; 24/18; 1,653 ---------------- 8. Matan: 2/3, 7; 20/9; 833 9. Moreira: 2/3, 7; 27/23; 2,134 9. Yeboah: 0/6, 6; 24/16; 1,460 10. Zawadzki: 1/3, 5; 24/17; 1,610 ------------ 11. Hinestroza: 2/0, 4; 22/8; 630 12. Amundsen: 0/3, 3; 25/17; 1,618 13. Camacho: 1/0, 2; 23/22; 1,878 14. Nagbe: 0/2, 2; 26/26; 2,229 15. Cheberko: 0/1, 1; 22/16; 1,535 -------------- No points: 16. Schulte: 0/0, 0; 26/26; 2,370 17. Jones: 0/0, 0; 17/3; 366 18. Sands: 0/0, 0; 7/4; 285 19. Bush: 0/0, 0; 2/2; 125 ------------- 20. Quinton: 0/0, 0; 1/1, 90 21. Habroune: 0/0, 0; 4/1, 79 22. Hagen: 0/0, 0; 1/0, 55 23. Mrowka: 0/0, 0; 1/0, 1
Goals: 14: Cucho 11: Rossi 7: Ramirez 5: Russell-Rowe 3: Arfsten, Farsi, Morris 2: Hinestroza, Matan, Moreira 1: Zawadzki, Camacho Assists: 11: Rossi 9: Cucho 8: Morris 6: Yeboah 5: Ramirez, Arfsten 4: Farsi 3: Matan, Zawadzki, Amundsen, Moreira 2: Nagbe 1: Cheberko Games Started: 26: Schulte, Nagbe 25: Rossi 23: Moreira 22: Camacho 20: Cucho, Morris 18: Farsi 17: Amundsen, Zawadzki 16: Cheberko, Yeboah ------- 13: Arfsten 11: Russell-Rowe 10: Ramirez 9: Matan 8: Hinestroza ------- 4: Sands 3: Jones 2: Bush 1: Quinton, Habroune 0: Hagen, Mrowka
Could be a few tweaks but more rotation if any is probably coming Saturday. A good time to rest ppl and avoid that Atlanta turf.
I'm going to go Crew +2. They can't stay on this torrential goal-scoring feast forever. 3-1 good guys.
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Wouldn't be surprised to see Matan in the CM role again to pull out Charlotte while not putting as much emphasis on the WBs to bring the ball up the field. Dean Smith said he focused on drawing Cincy's WB high, pulling a CB wide, and moving the ball quickly into vacated space.
Yep. A Matan start in CM woukd allow Zawadzki to start in the back, thus giving Moreira or Camacho a night off. Moreira, Camacho, Nagbe, & Ramirez are the guys I worry about the most. Though we may be close to running Rossi into the ground.
The apple tv post game coverage from around 12:40 am out in LA seemed to focus heavily on Crew players interacting with family and friends (and any random Crew fan who wandered down there it looked like), and they all looked in great shape.
Well, they've been averaging only like 60-70 minutes of actual competitive soccer per game over the last month. I'm sure they'll all claim to play just as hard when the score is 4-0 as 0-0, but c'mon.
Win by 1. We aren't going to murder people EVERY WEEK, and I can see some squad rotation (although I don't know how much) happening.
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My phone shows differently but we will know more earlier in day tomorrow, hope for no lightning because rain isn’t a big deal
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