Massive Report · Sep 27, 2018
As the playoffs loom, Crew SC is doing things in a different way
It hasn’t been easy for Columbus Crew SC to score goals in 2018. With four games remaining in the regular season, the Black & Gold have found the back of the net just 39 times. If you extend that out until the end of the season, Crew SC is on pace to score just over 44 goals this year.
This is a far cry from the high-scoring Gregg Berhalter teams of the last four seasons. The fewest goals scored by Columbus since Berhalter took over was 50 in 2016, the year the team failed to make the MLS Cup playoffs. Even in Berhalter’s first year, when the team had the likes of Jairo Arrieta, Aaron Schoenfeld and Adam Bedell as forwards, Crew SC managed to find the back of the net 52 times.