Goals from Alex Muyl and Daniel Royer and a strong defensive display handed the New York Red Bulls a 2-0 win over Columbus Crew: the team's second consecutive 2-0 win, and its fourth consecutive clean sheet at Red Bull Arena.
The Crew had chances, and the shutout owed as much to luck as the performance of an increasingly confident and capable back line. But rare is the game in which the opponent has zero chances to score, and at some point one perhaps ought to accept that a team is making its own luck - four shutouts in the last four home games seems a reasonable point at which to stop quibbling about the occasional breakaway opportunity or dangerous cross.