After a loss to FC Cincinnati on Wednesday, team coach Caleb Porter and his players held a long assembly that, he said, united them.
The next step for the team is to get back on track from an embarrassing two-game streak that has now taken the team away to seven issues of East League Football League leadership in the primaries.
The Crew receives New York City FC at 6 p. m. Sunday.
“Regardless of the final results of this next game, I’m sure that in the last 3 days we’ve become bigger as a team, more powerful as a team, and I’m sure we’ll have smart performance,” Porter said. Are we going to be the best team all of a sudden? No, it doesn’t take place without delay in 3 days, but I’m convinced we’re on the right track for this game and the next ones.
In that assembly and in the days following the loss to Cincinnati, Porter said the team had raised problems beyond the last game that were hopefully resolved in the normal extra-time period of the season, when each point can determine the ranking of the playoffs.
Against New York City FC, which is Crew’s four rankings, wanting to end their four-game winning streak is cautious.
“I think we want to get bad this last week,” Porter said. “We had him as a team, we had him as coaches. We went through the movie. We’ve tackled not only this game, but other things about the In recent weeks, we can all do better. But we can’t let that persist. We have to get out of this. “
NYCFC (8-7-3, 27 points) returns to Mapfre Stadium for the first time since the season opener in March to face a hungry Columbus.
The Crew (9-4-4, 31 points) lost to the Montreal Impact in their last home game, highlighting some considerations about the crew’s viability as a contender for first place in the East. These considerations became full-rate disorders with six games to play in the normal season.
Once again, the team will run out of midfielders Darlington Nagbe, Lucas Zelarayan and goalkeeper Eloy Room for injuries; NYCFC is also missing some injured players, adding up ahead heber and defenseman James Sands, midfielder Maxi Morales is expected to return.
Recently, a major challenge has been the team’s propensity for slow starts. The team did not lose a game when it scored first, but has not done so in the last four games.
“It’s getting the game off to a good start, to score first, because if we score first, the parties to the conflict have to attack,” said midfielder Pedro Santos. “They’re going to open up more area and we’ll have more area to locate and create something. “
Santos said the deficient effects of arrears can simply be a mixture of lack of concentration for 90 minutes and execution in possession; However, it is not a challenge for players in the area to do their job.
“We have to get the game off to a good start like we did in the past,” Santos said. “After that, we gain confidence and we can play better and we will harm the opponent with the stage because we have quality. “
No 2020 Amateur Shield Trophy
The award given to the team that ends with the highest broadcast in a season in the MLS will be paused by 2020.
The Supporters’ Shield Foundation announced Saturday afternoon that the trophy would be delivered this season and return in 2021.
An announcement from the Supporters’ Shield Foundation Board of Directors: pic. twitter. com/JSF8mmUXFp
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