Welcome to the Anatomy of a Goal, where each week we dissect one goal (or near goal) from Columbus Crew SC‘s previous match.
For match six of the 2018 MLS Season, we take a look at Nemanja Nikolic’ s 27th minute goal that put the Chicago Fire up 1-0 and was the only goal in their win over Crew SC on Saturday.
While Columbus had created multiple chances up to this point, the Fire’s defensive pressure had caused multiple problems for the Black & Gold.
In the third minute, Steffen was forced to make a diving stop on an Alan Gordon pass to Nikolic off of a giveaway by Josh Williams, which would have resulted in a goal but for Steffen’s heroics.