The Columbus Crew Herald
Match6 Nov 2027
The season ends here for Columbus Crew
Inter Miami CF go through. The table said this team was good enough for months and the format does not care what the table said, which is the argument every eliminated club has had with itself since playoffs were invented.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Wessam Abou Ali is carrying Columbus Crew
25 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Up for the corner, and Aleksa Cvetković delivers — 7.70
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Aleksa Cvetković scored, was marked 7.70, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Mohamed Farsi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Columbus Crew
Nicksoen Gomis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Steven Moreira
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Paul Reyna answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Wessam Abou Ali makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Michael Yedlin was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Brais Méndez
- The dugout Cesar Ruvalcaba gets picked when it counts
- Match Columbus Crew have something to play for