When FC Cincinnati conceded their first purpose of Sunday’s 3-0 defeat to the Columbus Crew, only 442 minutes had elapsed since Orange’s last purpose.
With FC Cincinnati still a moment away from tying the score, head coach Jaap Stam switched to an offensive lineup and replaced his pin, Haris Medunjanin, in the game.
But the changes didn’t make a difference: FC Cincinnati recorded only two innocent shots and allowed two more goals before time ran out.
So far, even a one-goal lead is hard to beat for FC Cincinnati (2-3-5), who was eliminated in his fifth straight game in Sunday’s 3-0 loss to the team. (7-2-1).
“After your pass, we tried to get out a little more, but I don’t think our reaction was good,” said midfielder Siem de Jong. “We let it go a little bit after that. We weren’t competitive enough, I don’t think we made enough progress and I think we were opening the hole more (for Columbus) because we were looking to move forward a little bit more, but we weren’t doing it.
Since Stam led his first game with FC Cincinnati in July, the club has been at a disadvantage for 203 minutes. During this period, the war parties beat FC Cincinnati 7-1, and the club’s purpose while behind it came from a penalty ahead of Jurgen Locadia. opposite the Portland Timbers.
FC Cincinnati’s defense led the club to a 2-3-3 Stam record. That’s an improvement over last season: the club has not conceded a purpose in 3 of its last 4 games before Sunday’s defeat.
But when the team lags behind, deficits of a purpose have become eruptions.
Against the team on July 11, Columbus scored for FC Cincinnati in the 27th minute and FC Cincinnati allowed 3 more goals in the next 33 minutes. Against the Chicago Fire on August 25, Chicago scored one goal in the minute of the moment, and the Fire added two more in minutes.
Then came Sunday’s loss to the team: in the 52nd minute, team midfielder Luis Diaz sent a center from the right wing that sneaked between FC Cincinnati maikel van der Werff and Kendall Waston. .
Columbus had a purpose of attack and Stam’s tactics.
Instead of betting on the typical FC Cincinnati team, which includes five defenders, Stam moved a defender to midfield and a midfielder to the striker, a 4-3-3 formation.
He also replaced Medunjanin, who helped create the team’s opportunities in FC Cincinnati’s last game against the Chicago Fire on September 2 with accurate long-distance passes.
Even though the club used a more competitive setup, the changes did not result in any chance of a damaging goal, as Columbus, ahead of Gyasi Zardes, added two more goals.
“After you concede, you have to have stamina, you need to show as a team and as players that you’re not disappointed with what happened,” Stam said. “I don’t think we’ve had enough in the middle of this moment. Make it simple and very complicated for them.
In Sunday’s loss, FC Cincinnati recorded a framed shot and Locadia only had a chance of purpose in 90 minutes.
The three brilliant losses make a difference in FC Cincinnati’s preference to play his first MLS playoffs. FC Cincinnati entered the eleventh position in the East Conference on Sunday, a tenth point and a playoff candidacy.
But late at night, FC Cincinnati dropped to 12th place.
Since the purpose differential is the playoff tiebreaker, the obvious losses are starting to pile up.
“We’re looking to progress, talking to the players about what we want to do as a team,” Stam said. “When building a team and not being able to play it eventually in a safe way, you must have a safe team mentality. “, which is very important.