FC Cincinnati had a serious problem when Columbus Crew SC scored in the 52nd minute for a 1-0 lead.
FC Cincinnati had not scored since the MLS Is Back tournament in July, so even a disadvantage of a goal discouraged Sunday at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus.
Gyasi Zardes, FC Cincinnati’s outstanding assassin, then entered the game for Crew SC in the 62nd minute. The FCC deficit temporarily reached unsurpassed proportions as Zardes scored twice in seven minutes to put 3-0.
The goals were Zardes’ 6th and 7th in all five games between Crew SC and FC Cincinnati at Major League Soccer level, and they hit player seven in 2020.
With the opening of Pedro Santos in the 52nd minute as the game’s winner, Columbus (7-1-2) closed the victory 3-0, leaving FC Cincinnati at 2-6-3.
For FC Cincinnati head coach Jaap Stam, the team lost track after falling 1-0.
Heads began to fall, Stam said, and Zardes, another second-half substitute, was able to resume the game and close it.
“You ask the team a little more after that. We replaced it and went with the 4-3-3, you’ve also noticed it in previous games,” Stam said. The thing is that after you grant you have to be resilient, you have to prove it as a team, the players too, and don’t be disappointed with what happened, I don’t think we have enough in the part of the moment, you simplify it and very complicated for them for you. It’s a shame. You’re still waiting for the next step. I think in the first part we did well, but in the part of the moment, after granting, we weren’t where we were supposed to be. “
The half-time substitutes replaced the game with Colon. The first player to enter Luis Díaz, who scored Colón’s first grueling goal after entering the game before the start of the half-time.
“It’s kind of a center,” FC Cincinnati’s Kendall Waston said of Diaz’s taking a hand on the first goal. “Very damaging because defenders, the goalkeeper and everyone can touch it and go to goal. “and we snuggle up with our men, but at the same time we don’t cover the spaces well. For example, in my case, it may have been just an internal step to cut the trajectory of the ball, but it’s right in the middle. for his part. “
After falling in the middle of the moment, Cincinnati controlled only two shots, one by midfielder Frankie Amaya and one by Jurgen Locadia, and none challenged Crew SC goalkeeper Eloy Room.
FCC now has no goals in all games since MLS returned to the market after MLS Is Back.
FC Cincinnati did not score a goal in 484 minutes and is approaching the club’s worst purposeless 527-minute drought, which accrued in the spring of the 2019 season.
Room did not have to make any stops to record his sixth bleach of 2020 despite an early flowering in the game for FC Cincinnati that produced 3 opportunities to open the scoring.
A slippery Locadia on the back post could not pass at the end of a Joseph-Claude Gyau thread on the face of the purpose around the 12th minute. That moment Cincinnati’s most productive possibility in the game.
It was around the same time that Locadia won the ball inside the penalty area and turned to fire a shot that blocked before it could hit Room.
Przemysaw Tytoo made three saves to do additional damage in Cincinnati.
“Well, I think it started well. I think, of course, we knew they were coming a lot, but I think in the first part we also had a chance to get out,” said midfielder Siem de Jong. we have created some opportunities . . . I think it went up and down and at the end of the first exit, I think we started to lose a little grip. They could no longer get into the area, they had some crosses that were dangerous We had some smart blocks, but I think at the time part, one of the centers nevertheless discovered the goal, and then they opened the marker, I think after that we had to replace a little bit our plan Then we opened up a little more space and yet they expanded it.