that's in front of the goal."
• Said Dunivant: "It was a great ball by Lombardo. I should've hit it the first time. I was a little behind it, but no excuses. If I hit it the first time, it's a goal. There's not much else you can say. ... All week we were talking about getting in the box and making runs. Mo did, I was in the back post, I took the finish and it wasn't there. I take responsibility."
• Still, it was a third consecutive game - home against D.C. United and at FC Dallas before - where Toronto completely controlled the run of play and yet came away without three points or a goal. Against United, Fred's eighth-minute goal stood up for the entire contest; FC Dallas scored two penalties for the 2-0 win.
• "You keep plugging away, keep working," Brennan said. "You had enough chances there for three games. It's one of those things. We're in a rook at a moment and we've got to get ourselves out of it. The guys know we played well. We worked hard, we stayed together. We're creating our chances -- yeah, we're not scoring them, but we're getting there."
• Johnston's two biggest injury worries this weekend - in a long list of injury concerns - involve defender Marvell Wynne and striker Danny Dichio. Wynne injured his hamstring trying to chase down former TFC striker Alecko Eskandarian during last weekend's game, and said Johnston "it's not looking good" to have him available.
• Dichio is concerned he could have a fracture foot that has kept him out for four of the last six games.
• "If I still can't plant my foot properly then we're going to have more X-rays this week," Dichio said to the Globe and Mail. "It's touch and go really to see how this week goes. It feels a lot better but I'm still not able to put pressure on it backwards. I'll just have to see. Hopefully it heals this week, if not then we'll have X-rays on Thursday or Friday just to see if there is a fracture.
• In addition, Adam Braz will miss Saturday's match to observe Yom Kippur.
• After a seven-game stretch where he started every one and scored three goals, Jeff Cunningham made just his third appearance since July 4 against RSL. Those three outings have totaled just 49 minutes.
• "Give them credit, they did what they were supposed to which is put 10 men behind the ball. We just couldn't bring them down, we had a few chances but people came up big. I don't know, it's just one of those seasons -- years -- you do everything you're trained to do, but in the game it just doesn't happen," Cunningham said.
COLUMBUS CREW
The Columbus Crew saw their winless streak reach seven games and were delivered the cruelest blow yet, seeing the Kansas City Wizards score two goals in second-half stoppage time for a 3-2 victory on Saturday evening at Arrowhead Stadium. The Crew now have 28 points from 25 matches, now sitting in 10th place overall in the MLS table, a point behind the Colorado Rapids and two behind the Chicago Fire in the race for the final playoff berth.
LAST MATCH
• Both teams came in needing a victory to provide some assurance for their playoff futures. The Wizards were in a better spot, still seventh overall, but with just one win in their last six games, while the Crew hadn't won in six games, falling out of the top eight as a result.
• The Wizards took the lead in the 31st minute through some free kick mastery. Clipped down beyond the left corner of the area, Scott Sealy curled the resulting free kick over the wall and high inside the near post for a terrific opener.
• But the Crew came out flying after the break and scored twice in three minutes to take the lead. In the 65th minute, an Eddie Gaven shot from inside the area was knocked down by a diving Kevin Hartman, but Alejandro Moreno was there to bundle the ball home for his fifth goal on the year.
• Then in the 67th minute, a corner came in from the right, and Marcos Gonzalez headed it back across goal to the right-hand post, where Andy Herron flew in to side-foot home a close-range volley.
• That set the stage for a remarkable comeback. Into stoppage time, Kerry Zavagnin fell over Stefani Miglioranzi's challenge in the area, and Eddie Johnson scored the leveller from the spot -- though only after it hit the inside of the post and just crossed the line. Then not a minute later, freed on the right, Eloy Colombano drove in a cross and Sealy laid himself out for a header at the near post, beating Crew 'keeper Will Hesmer for the winner.
• It was just the third time in MLS history a team had come from behind after trailing at the 90-minute mark with the winning goals in stoppage time.
• Crew head coach Sigi Schmid made four changes to the team that lost 1-0 to the Chicago Fire the weekend before at home. Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Frankie Hejduk were out through suspension, Rusty Pierce out injured and Stefani Miglioranzi back to the substitutes' bench as Ezra Hendrickson, Tim Ward, Ned Grabavoy and Jason Garey all came back into the team.
• Here's Schmid's team (3-5-2): Will Hesmer - Ezra Hendrickson, Marcos Gonzalez, Tim Ward - Eddie Gaven, Ned Grabavoy, Danny O'Rourke, Duncan Oughton, Jacob Thomas (Andy Herron 65) - Jason Garey (Stefani Miglioranzi 84), Alejandro Moreno. Substitutes Not Used: Andy Gruenebaum, Kei Kamara, Andrew Peterson, Robbie Rogers, Ricardo Virtuoso
• "It was a difficult night for us. We tried to do everything in order to get a result here and then the penalty kick goes their way and then lack of concentration lets us walk out of here with zero points," said Alejandro Moreno.
TEAM NEWS
• It was another heartbreaking loss late in a game - and another heartbreaking loss to the Wizards. In their previous meeting at Arrowhead Stadium, Jose Burciaga Jr. scored the game's lone goal in the 90th minute.
• In the last six games, the Crew have given up the tying or winning goal in the final 11 minutes on four occasions; they conceded the winner to FC Dallas in stoppage time on Aug. 11 for a 3-2 loss at Pizza Hut Park.
• "We have to close out games at the end," Gaven said. "I don't know how many times this year that we've done that (lost a lead late) - at least four or five. We're up or we're tied and we give up goals and we then lose points. That's the reason we kind of have our backs up against the wall right now."
• The Crew are still in the MLS playoff hunt, still just two points out of eighth place in the MLS overall table after the weekend. Three of their final five games are on the road, and the next two are against teams also outside the top eight -- Toronto FC (away) and Los Angeles Galaxy (home).
• "If we play the way we played tonight we'll get good results," Jason Garey said. "It's not impossible for us to win out and go to the playoffs."
• The Crew have three of their final five games on the road. The trip to Toronto is followed by back-to-back home games against the LA Galaxy and FC Dallas, before the Crew finish out on the road against New England and D.C. United.
• "We have a six-game season, basically. There are 18 points out there, and we want to get as many as we can and see what happens with the rest of the teams," Ezra Hendrickson said before the Kansas City game. "Right now it is all about us. It doesn't matter if we are at home; we're going for maximum points. Like I said, there are 18 points out there to get. Hopefully we can get 14 or 15, we'll be all right."
• Said Schmid: "It's not easy. We've made it difficult for ourselves, but the one thing we're not going to do is give up, and mathematically, things are still there and the way this league is, in a week things can turn around. So, now it's a matter of us going to Kansas City and Toronto over the next two games, and every game is the same for us, whether home or away, we just have to get maximum points every time we step on the field, and hope that others start knocking each other off."
