Columbus will take on the Revolution for the second time in five weeks. We look at how the game sets up.
Go back 18 or so months, and a matchup between Columbus Crew SC and the New England Revolution would have been hailed as a marquee showdown between the two clubs that are ringing in the next era of Major League soccer.
Whoops.
Now, both teams are scraping just to be in the playoff mix. It’s been 11 games since Crew SC last won. That’s two months. It’s a number that’s almost incomprehensible.
New England is not much more well off (though seven points higher in the standings is a solid, though surmountable, gap), and is coming off a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of the Philadelphia Union.