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Columbus Crew vs. Real Salt Lake: Match Report
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Crew 3, RSL 0
Marshall(Schelotto) 15, Schelotto(PK) 25, Evans (Gaven, Schelotto) 55
There’s always something new to see at Crew Stadium. This week we sat to the right of the tunnel before the game and learned that there is such a thing as MLS groupies. I hadn’t considered that. It’s also an interesting vantage point for watching [...]
Chicago vs. New England: Will the Crew drop to 3rd?
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While the Crew enjoy their bye week, its two closest Eastern Conference rivals square off in Foxborough, Mass. While the Crew sit at 31 points on 19 games, the Revs are at 33 on 17 and the Fire are at 29 points on 18 games. A month ago the Crew had four games to make [...]
Crew vs. Dynamo: Match Report
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Crew 0, Dynamo 2
Brad Davis(Brian Mullan) 13, Brian Ching(Nate Jaqua) 43
It’s no fun to lose. I’m most disappointed that the Crew drops to 1.6 Points Per Game, the same figure as Chicago. That’s a slide from 1.8 at the end of June. New England is at 1.9 PPG with two games in hand on [...]
Columbus Crew vs. Houston Dynamo: Match Preview
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Look for a tough one in Houston tonight. It’s hot in Texas. The Crew is missing Rogers and Ekpo for the Olympics. Hejduk is out for yellow card accumulation. Lenhart is out 2 games for a flagrant foul and red card.
Last week’s game against the Rapids was the first without Rogers and Ekpo. Sigi debuted [...]
Crew vs. Rapids: Match Report
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Crew 2, Rapids 0
Lenhart (Miglioranzi)22, Garey (Evans)75
Have you heard the supporters clubs chant “Ricky Bobby” when William Hesmer makes a save? Sunday’s game in Denver gave definitive proof: William Hesmer pisses excellence.
Hesmer was credited with 7 saves, with the 2 best coming in the 12th and 90th minutes. He was clearly the man of the [...]
Columbus Crew vs. West Ham United: Match Report
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Look ma, two friendlies!
West Ham 3, Columbus Crew 1
This match was much better attended than the Independiente game a few weeks ago, although there were probably fewer Argentinians. West Ham banners outnumbered Crew banners, and the Hammers chant on par with beer-soaked Belgian monks.
The Crew didn’t start anything like their first team, but [...]
Crew vs. Wizards: Match Report
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Crew 3, Wizards 3
Kansas City: Own Goal (Hejduk)22, Espinoza (Jewsbury/Morsink)24, Wolfe (Jewsbury/Morsink)75
Columbus: Schelotto (unassisted)26, Moreno(Schelotto,Rogers)33, Marshall (Schelotto)38
Well, I’ll be a suck-egg mule.
That should have been 3 points in the bank. you can bet that this game ends up on the Wizard’s highlight reel for the season. They almost doubled their goals on the road and [...]
Bad at Math: Predicting the rest of the season
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More fun with statistics: I’ve been playing with the numbers available at mlsnet.com and wanted to see if there was a simple-yet-interesting method for predicting the rest of the season. I’m sure there are agreed upon methods for making predictions, but I decided to not do any research. I’m forging new territory in bad decision-making. [...]
Category: analysisColumbus Crew vs. Kansas City Wizards: Match Preview
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I’ve been looking at the statistics available from MLS. It’s hard to guess how adding Josh Wolff will change the look of Kansas City. The Crew has beaten them twice this year, but by some measures Kansas City’s defense is stronger than Columbus. For example, KC goals against average is 1.2, while Columbus allows [...]
Columbus Crew vs. Club Atletico Independiente
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I haven’t been to an international friendly since 2002 when the Crew played Newcastle United, and that was mostly for the beer. Mmmmm… Brown Ale. Back then we sat with my dad’s German friend who rolled his r each time he said “the Polish Rrrrifle.” He said it enough we turned it into a drinking [...]
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