It was a long time ago when Columbus Crew SC last lost four games in a row. It was a stretch of contests that extended from April 23 to May 14. The year was 2005.
Caleb Porter, now the Crew’s head coach, was an assistant at Indiana, months away from taking over his first program at Akron. Wil Trapp, now the team’s captain, was 12 years old and playing for the Black & Gold was still a child’s dream.
After this recent stretch for Columbus, where the Crew again dropped four straight matches — from April 13 to April 27 — Porter and Trapp are two of the men looked at to figure out what’s gone wrong after a 4-1-1 start to the 2019 Major League Soccer season.