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Columbus Crew

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Columbus Crew, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 4-2 MLS success vs New York City FC.

In that game, Columbus Crew had 46% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Columbus Crew, the goals were scored by Diego Rossi (17'), Max Arfsten (58'), DeJuan Jones (93') and Jacen Russell-Rowe (100'). For their opponents, New York City FC had 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Alonso Martínez (4') and Monsef Bakrar (86') scored for New York City FC.

Columbus Crew have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, finding the back of the net in each and every one of their last 6 matches.

They have hit an aggregate of 16 during that period and have conceded a total of 6. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

Seattle Sounders FC

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Portland Timbers in MLS competition, Seattle Sounders FC and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Seattle Sounders FC had 51% possession and 15 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. At the other end, Portland Timbers had 12 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Juan David Mosquera (55') scored for Portland Timbers.

The trend of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring Seattle Sounders FC has become fairly consistent in recent matches. Examining their last 6 outings reveals that it has occurred 5 times. During these clashes, their opponents have hit a goal tally of 7 while Seattle Sounders FC have scored 6.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels dating back to 31/05/2017, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Columbus Crew winning 2 of those games, Seattle Sounders FC 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

A combined sum of 14 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 9 for The Crew and 5 created by The Sounders. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The last league game featuring these sides was MLS match day 28 on 21/08/2021 when it finished Columbus Crew 1-2 Seattle Sounders FC.

In that match, Columbus Crew had 44% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Bradley Wright-Phillips (77').

On the other side, Seattle Sounders FC got 17 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Xavier Arreaga (88') and Will Bruin (89') scored.

The match was refereed by Joe Dickerson.

📋 Team News: Columbus Crew

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Columbus Crew manager Wilfried Nancy to contend with from an otherwise complete group of players. Evan Bush (Arm injury) won’t play.

In our view, The Crew should employ a 3-4-2-1 system, utilising Abraham Romero, Sean Zawadzki, Rudy Camacho, Yevgen Cheberko, Max Arfsten, Derrick Jones, Darlington Nagbe, DeJuan Jones, Diego Rossi, Dylan Chambost and Christian Ramirez.

📰 Team News: Seattle Sounders FC

Thanks to a mainly full-strength squad, there is just the sole fitness worry for the Seattle Sounders FC boss Brian Schmetzer to be concerned about. Braudílio Rodrigues (Muscle injury) won’t be in action.

We are inclined to think that The Sounders could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Andrew Thomas, Alex Roldan, Yeimar Gomez, Jackson Ragen, Reed Baker-Whiting, Josh Atencio, Danny Leyva, Cristian Roldan, Albert Rusnák, Pedro De la Vega and Jordan Morris.

💡 Prediction

Here is a game where Seattle Sounders FC will need things to go their way to find the net against this Columbus Crew outfit who we think will score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We therefore see a very even match with a 1-0 advantage for Columbus Crew after 90 minutes.

It should be a good one.

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Lucas Pereira, 23:10 07/09/2024