COLUMBUS CREW vs FC DALLAS
COLUMBUS CREW STADIUM, Columbus, Ohio
May 12, 2012 (WEEK 10, MLS Game #92)
7:30 p.m. ET (FS-OH; FS-SW)
Two clubs aiming to put an end to lengthy winless streaks meet Saturday at Crew Stadium when the Columbus Crew play host to FC Dallas. The Crew haven't won in five games, coming off a scoreless draw at the Portland Timbers last weekend. FC Dallas also haven't won in their last five, coming off a 2-0 home loss to Seattle Sounders FC at midweek.
REFEREE: Baldomero Toledo. SAR (bench): Corey Parker; JAR (opposite): Jason Cullum; 4th: Matthew Foerster
MLS Career: 132 games; FC/gm: 24.9; Y/gm: 3.5; R: 47; pens: 49
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INJURY REPORT:
- COLUMBUS CREW -- OUT: FW Ben Speas (sports hernia rehab); DF Rich Balchan (sports hernia rehab); FW Tommy Heinemann (L knee surgery); DF Julius James (illness); GK William Hesmer (R hip surgery); FW Aaron Schoenfeld (R plantar fascia rupture); DOUBTFUL: FW Olman Vargas (L hamstring contusion); DF Chad Marshall (concussion symptoms); QUESTIONABLE: MF Danny O'Rourke (L ankle sprain); MF Dilly Duka (L hamstring strain); DF Carlos Mendes (R hamstring strain)
- FC DALLAS - OUT: MF David Ferreira (R foot surgery); MF Ricardo Villar (R foot strain); MF Andrew Wiedeman (sports hernia repair); MF Carlos Rodriguez (L elbow dislocation); MF Bobby Warshaw (R foot fracture); DF Ugo Ihemelu (concussion symptoms); QUESTIONABLE: MF Brek Shea (L foot turf toe)
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none
WARNINGS:
- SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: none
- SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: DAL: Jair Benitez, Daniel Hernandez
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (40 meetings): Crew 16 wins (1 shootout), 54 goals ... FC Dallas 16 wins (1 shootout), 55 goals ... Ties 8
AT COLUMBUS (21 meetings): Crew 11 wins (1 shootout), 34 goals... FC Dallas 4 wins (1 shootout), 21 goals... Ties 6
LAST YEAR (MLS):
4/1: CLB 2, DAL 0 (Mendoza 54; Gaven 90)
7/2: DAL 2, CLB 0 (Shea 58; Jackson 76)
- This is the only league meeting between the clubs this season.
- FC Dallas last won at Crew Stadium in 2007. The Crew have won three of the four league meetings since at home with FCD, with one draw.
- The Crew haven't won in Frisco on their last three visits, since 2008. FCD has won twice, with one draw.
- Coaches record: Schellas Hyndman vs. CLB: P8 W3 L3 D2 ... Robert Warzycha vs. DAL: P8 W2 L4 D2
COLUMBUS CREW
The Columbus Crew saw their winless slide lengthened to five games, reaching a scoreless draw with the Portland Timbers on Saturday evening at Jeld-Wen Field. The Crew sit in a tie for eighth place in the Eastern Conference with 8 points from 8 games.
HIGHLIGHTS: Columbus held scoreless in Portland
LAST MATCH
- Goalkeepers and defense ruled the evening. Columbus goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum had six saves, including another diving effort off a Darlington Nagbe scorcher in the 83rd minute.
- Timbers ëkeeper Troy Perkins, sporting a face shield after suffering a boot to the nose last weekend against Montreal, was credited with one save.
- Crew head coach Robert Warzycha made three changes to the team that fell 1-0 to Vancouver Whitecaps FC at Crew Stadium. Eric Gehrig came into central defense for Chad Marshall, and Ethan Finlay and Emilio Renteria were an all-change strike pair, in place of Aaron Schoenfeld and Olman Vargas.
- COLUMBUS CREW (4-1-3-2): Andy Gruenebaum - Sebastian Miranda, Josh Williams, Eric Gehrig, Nemanja Vukovic (Shaun Francis 84) - Danny O'Rourke - Tony Tchani, Milovan Mirosevic, Eddie Gaven - Ethan Finlay (Justin Meram 79), Emilio Renteria (Bernardo Anor 79).
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FC DALLAS
FC Dallas had their winless slide extended to five games, going down to a 2-0 defeat by Seattle Sounders FC on Wednesday evening at FC Dallas Stadium. FCD is in sixth place in the Western Conference with 12 points from 10 matches.
HIGHLIGHTS: Sounders get the win in Dallas
LAST MATCH
- Substitute Fredy Montero scored both goals in a four-minute span midway through the second half. First, in the 68th minute, the Seattle striker received the ball on the right side of the box and skipped between two FC Dallas defenders before blasting a shot near-side past FCD goalkeeper Kevin Hartman.
- Then in the 71st minute, Alex Caskey drove in a low cross from the left that bounced up off a defender and Montero met it with a diving header in front of his marker.
- Sounders FC goalkeeper Bryan Meredith made five saves on the night, his best an acrobatic leap to his right to parry a Scott Sealy header in the 35th minute.
- FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman made three changes to the team that suffered a 2-0 loss to the Colorado Rapids at FC Dallas Stadium. Matt Hedges and Hernan Pertuz came into the back four and James Marcelin started in midfield, in place of Ugo Ihemelu and the suspended Daniel Hernandez and Blas Perez.
- FC DALLAS (4-4-2): Kevin Hartman - Zach Loyd, George John, Matt Hedges, Hernan Pertuz (Ruben Luna 84) - Jackson, Andrew Jacobson, James Marcelin, Jair Benitez - Fabian Castillo, Scott Sealy (Brek Shea 70).
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