Crew goes 0-for-3 during week; winless streak is at 7 with three shutout losses in a row
Carl Robinson, Vancouver's head coach said you have to speed Columbus up when playing them. They are tough when the game is slowed down (photo by Stuart Mason)
POST-GAME PRESS CONFERENCE AUDIO
54,260 Dominic Oduro Crew On team winless and non scoring streak Vancouver 1 Crew 0 5 10 2014
GAME NOTES:
* Columbus fall to 3-4-3 on the season, dropping out of the top half of the Eastern Conference, while Vancouver improve to 4-2-4. The Whitecaps have 16 points and the Crew are still stuck on 12 points.
* The Crew have now played 321 minutes without tallying a goal, and their last goal from the run of play came from Hector Jimenez’s late-game heroics against D.C. United on April 19.
* The Men of the Match were: Midfielder Matias Laba and Forward Erik Hurtado for Vancouver. Goalkeeper Steve Clark was the lone star for Columbus.
The road win stretches Vancouver’s unbeaten streak to four, while Columbus remains winless in their last seven MLS matches. the Vancouver Whitecaps won their second straight match, handing the Columbus Crew its third straight loss of the week.
What is surprising to everyone, fans and media, Crew head coach Gregg Berhalter named the same starting 11 as he did in Week 1. It was expected that things would be shaken up for the team’s struggling offense.
The Whitecaps scored the game’s lone goal in the 37th minute on a strike by Erik Hurtado. The Vancouver forward controlled a long free kick from his goalkeeper David Ousted from the opposite half of the field, turned left into space and unleashed a perfectly placed drive that Clark had no chance to save. That was Hurtado’s first MLS goal. and Ousted got a rare assists as a goalkeeper.
