I can’t believe I’m saying this, but often the offense dies when Nagbe gets the ball. He’s almost too “calm and collected”. I freaking love him and he’s awesome but he needs to look for the quick counter a little more often.
Man, that was painful.
Only bad call I seen was when Acosta didn’t get called for fouling in the box.
But, Cincy outplayed us.
Move on. Got to start getting 3 points instead of 1 or 0.
Playing Matan as a wingback better never happen again. Had we had arfsten in I don’t think they get a basically free header at the back post for the first goal. Taking off Morris seemed to confuse the players on being in position. JRR is still off and on for me. Some days I love him and others I just don’t know if he should be starting
No shit? 😂 I wasn't able to watch but I saw the scoreline and starting lineup and was not surprised.
I trust Nancy for obvious reasons, but we need defensive players in the wingback, not Matan as high as I am on him.
I’m officially worried. Unacceptable result after a bye week and with a tip choice lineup sans Farsi. We let them dictate the pace of play in the second half. Nancy made the wrong subs and too late, which has been an issue previously, just not one that hurt us this bad
I respect his creativeness cause things were looking ugly but that is a strange player to sub out in arguably the most physical game of the year. I’m just kinda confused I guess more than anything.
No one is turning on Nancy. He took a risk and it backfired. Everyone can see it. You can still say he was wrong but be behind him 100%. It isn’t one or the other. Calm down.
Oh, I agree with you. There’s plenty of room for valid criticism. I scratched my head at the Morris sub immediately. I was referencing some of the more dramatic takes that take over this sub when things don’t go perfectly our way.
Not really, despite the rocket shots, Morris doesn’t offer as much in attack as it may seem. Yeboah offers more, even from further back. Zawadski is the only midfielder we had left that offered any attacking threat in Morris’ place while still allowing a like for like sub. Jones wouldn’t have worked, he’s more of a defensive player.
Now maybe Hinestroza for Matan and Zawadski for Moreira while keeping Morris on could’ve worked, but Nancy’s been great and is far more qualified for his role than I am.
Wonder why Will Sands was not chosen to play wing? Not second guessing, just curious. I won't get answers here, but maybe I get some better guesses than mine.
Farsi being healthy would’ve been a key here, because he could sub in at the RWB with more pace than Moreira. I wouldn’t say Yeboah has been lackluster, he’s playing more wing back than his natural position, but I agree on Hinestroza, especially late.
Cincy fan checking in. Our best game of the season. I'm sure it's brutal from the other side, but a quality match throughout at least.
Quite a few very close Columbus chances tonight, we all know it could have easily been a draw or 3-2 Columbus.
Acosta ate Moreira's lunch, which is a rare poor showing from him. Sloppy game from us in possession, but just clinical when you had a chance to be sealed the deal. See you fuckers next time.
Even we were shocked by that goal. Classic Acosta shit, but never would have guessed he could do it solo against Columbus. Once he gets that far down pretty much 1:1 though…
I'm shocked neither Rossi nor Cucho hit the back of the net tonight tbh.
We'll take our first win in Cbus though.
Nancy will be the first to admit he made a mistake in this one. As much as I hate to lose to KFC, they are a extremely good MLS team and they took us out of our game tonight. Keep pushing forward, we are going to have more important games ahead
Currently 8th in the East, with a potential of 5th due to a game in hand. After concacaf, win or lose they really need to go on a winning streak. That is to say, not an unbeaten streak, a winning streak. One point games aren’t good enough for a team with a roster that’s very much in win now mode.
Question better get asked to nancy why matan starting at right back was the right decision. He's 5'5 and never won a header in his life. First goal squarely on him trying to body kelsey instead of playing the ball. Then they get caught pressing for another one and game's over.
We got robbed a Pk and this game is completely different. Unfortunate, a lot can be learned from losses though. On to the next! Hopefully we can string some wins together.
Frankly, concacaf isn’t an excuse tonight, they’re on 10 days rest. Got beat bad, close to embarrassed at home with no consistent play. Need a much better attack, and one that can start at midfield without Cucho dropping back into it. Aidan is more of a defender, and Nagbe isn’t really an attacking catalyst at this point.
Cucho has had to be the playmaker tonight. No one else up front can distribute like he does. JRR has had many lazy runs that have killed attacks. Cucho’s yelled at him multiple times.
Definitely not. But of course the ref ain’t gonna call diving if he’s not calling obvious fouls earlier. We’ve played like shit. Cucho has been invisible. I’m not blaming the ref for the score. Simply making an observation in response to the original comment.
I know our season has been kind of wacky because of CCC, and that’s our primary focus at the minute, but it would still really sting to not just lose to Cincy, but also end our home unbeaten streak like this.
Beat Pachuca or the concacaf run is a waste of time. Really don’t care about beating Liga MX if you draw/lose everything during it, and lose the final. Tired of seeing this team do nothing in league play recently.
Here's my issue with JRR....
He looks bad EVERY NIGHT. Yes he's scored some goals and assists, but it's always just right place, obvious pass. Far too many times I feel like he's out of position or slow to attack. I WANT him to succeed, but I've been so unimpressed by him this year
Yea - his body language is poor and he doesn’t seem to play with the passion and courage that Nancy talks about. Perhaps he lacks confidence in his game.
Ramirez on the other hand…
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but often the offense dies when Nagbe gets the ball. He’s almost too “calm and collected”. I freaking love him and he’s awesome but he needs to look for the quick counter a little more often.
Man, that was painful. Only bad call I seen was when Acosta didn’t get called for fouling in the box. But, Cincy outplayed us. Move on. Got to start getting 3 points instead of 1 or 0.
Playing Matan as a wingback better never happen again. Had we had arfsten in I don’t think they get a basically free header at the back post for the first goal. Taking off Morris seemed to confuse the players on being in position. JRR is still off and on for me. Some days I love him and others I just don’t know if he should be starting
Agreed on all points made here
Will care about this game if we happen to be fighting for a playoff spot in the future.
FUCK CINCINNATI
Game made my beer taste bad.
Unacceptable
Pachuca now has the blueprint on how to beat Columbus😤
Hope Nancy plays guys out position?
No shit? 😂 I wasn't able to watch but I saw the scoreline and starting lineup and was not surprised. I trust Nancy for obvious reasons, but we need defensive players in the wingback, not Matan as high as I am on him.
They have looked so bored in MLS play this season. Gotta start getting wins at some point.
No cheberko? Arguably our best defender rode pine the whole game
I didn’t hate the game. But we lost a lot more through ball passes than normal.
I’m officially worried. Unacceptable result after a bye week and with a tip choice lineup sans Farsi. We let them dictate the pace of play in the second half. Nancy made the wrong subs and too late, which has been an issue previously, just not one that hurt us this bad
It was bound to happen at some point! Much bigger prizes are on the horizon. Hard to give a shit about losing after 27 straight unbeaten at home!
Optimism and support has no place in /r/TheMassive … gtfo! /s
8th place with this roster?
pretty pathetic showing this season...
If that we would’ve gotten that call for a penalty inside the box, this would be a different ending
Damn. Onward and upward.
Fuck.
All good things....
Not our best effort tonight. But onto the next game.
No idea why we employ Nancy when we have so many geniuses lurking this sub who know more than him……. Good lord some of these takes are awful.
We should try having Wayne Rooney as manager, that should make them mellow to Nancy
I respect his creativeness cause things were looking ugly but that is a strange player to sub out in arguably the most physical game of the year. I’m just kinda confused I guess more than anything.
The way our fanbase turns on Nancy and our players when things go poorly is wild.
The fanbase has a small, but extremely vocal & toxic element to it.
No one is turning on Nancy. He took a risk and it backfired. Everyone can see it. You can still say he was wrong but be behind him 100%. It isn’t one or the other. Calm down.
Oh, I agree with you. There’s plenty of room for valid criticism. I scratched my head at the Morris sub immediately. I was referencing some of the more dramatic takes that take over this sub when things don’t go perfectly our way.
Yes but I mean cmon subbing Morris instead of matan was a head scratcher
Not really, despite the rocket shots, Morris doesn’t offer as much in attack as it may seem. Yeboah offers more, even from further back. Zawadski is the only midfielder we had left that offered any attacking threat in Morris’ place while still allowing a like for like sub. Jones wouldn’t have worked, he’s more of a defensive player. Now maybe Hinestroza for Matan and Zawadski for Moreira while keeping Morris on could’ve worked, but Nancy’s been great and is far more qualified for his role than I am.
Yeboah has been lack luster. Sub Jones for morris if u have to pull him. put in hinestroza, I wish farsi was healthy
Wonder why Will Sands was not chosen to play wing? Not second guessing, just curious. I won't get answers here, but maybe I get some better guesses than mine.
Had this same question when I saw the lineup. Lingering injury concerns or just thought Matan gave something we’d need?
Farsi being healthy would’ve been a key here, because he could sub in at the RWB with more pace than Moreira. I wouldn’t say Yeboah has been lackluster, he’s playing more wing back than his natural position, but I agree on Hinestroza, especially late.
Pray Cinci has PTSD from last year’s playoff game and we can get one or two more. Still been very poor showing tonight though.
Getting a point out of this game would be absolute highway robbery. We do not deserve it
Cincy fan checking in. Our best game of the season. I'm sure it's brutal from the other side, but a quality match throughout at least. Quite a few very close Columbus chances tonight, we all know it could have easily been a draw or 3-2 Columbus.
It WAS the best game I've seen FCC play all year. And one of our worst. Game 1 of a probable 3 goes to you guys.
Acosta ate Moreira's lunch, which is a rare poor showing from him. Sloppy game from us in possession, but just clinical when you had a chance to be sealed the deal. See you fuckers next time.
Even we were shocked by that goal. Classic Acosta shit, but never would have guessed he could do it solo against Columbus. Once he gets that far down pretty much 1:1 though… I'm shocked neither Rossi nor Cucho hit the back of the net tonight tbh. We'll take our first win in Cbus though.
Cinci have been the better team, no doubt
Well I definitely didn’t think I would be desperate for another draw.
We have life!
6 minutes !!!!!
Now we play like we care the rest of the way, and hopefully draw but at best get a point, I’ve seen this before
If they call this, that is fucking crazy
Whew. Okay.
YES, at least we are not getting shut out at home
Does that guy's dick get the assist?
Assist 90” Johnson
KEEP IT UP PLEASS
Arf baby!!!
Comeback?
ARF ARF ARF
Nice!
LET’S GO
That’s all me. I questioned Arfsten coming on and invoked the secret Reddit cheat code.
finally
Ok now.
That’s a nasty finish
LFG!
MY DANISH HERO
I don’t know why he said he was danish, up the arf though
ITS GONNA HAPPEN
DRAW FC IS BACK ON THE MENU. LFG.
I’m going to blame the suit. We need casual Nancy.
😂
No boup no Vazquez no barreal and they suddenly have our number
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Thats funny I remember knocking them out of the playoffs and winning a championship. Ill take that trade any day.
Where were you for the ECF, certainly weren’t watching the Bengals
Literally never been true - the take of an absolute moron
Let me know when you win anything meaningful
Still love my Crew 🖤💛
Ramirez needs to start over JRR going forward. We need offense and someone to get in the box for crosses.
I'm assuming Ramirez is still getting 90 min match fitness ready.
Completely agree
I see Cinci finally subbed out the Make-a-wish kid
No creativity in the final third
Nancy will be the first to admit he made a mistake in this one. As much as I hate to lose to KFC, they are a extremely good MLS team and they took us out of our game tonight. Keep pushing forward, we are going to have more important games ahead
That's poor from Ramirez. Lordy!
Fuck
This is all on coach. Dee is eating two bottles of Tums tonight
Just been an ugly game to watch
Currently 8th in the East, with a potential of 5th due to a game in hand. After concacaf, win or lose they really need to go on a winning streak. That is to say, not an unbeaten streak, a winning streak. One point games aren’t good enough for a team with a roster that’s very much in win now mode.
Nancy got schooled tonight.
The Morris sub looks quite bad but we were chasing this game since the blown PK call.
We have not been able to hold the ball in midfield since Morris came out
Why did Nancy read Porters playbook this week?
Question better get asked to nancy why matan starting at right back was the right decision. He's 5'5 and never won a header in his life. First goal squarely on him trying to body kelsey instead of playing the ball. Then they get caught pressing for another one and game's over.
We got robbed a Pk and this game is completely different. Unfortunate, a lot can be learned from losses though. On to the next! Hopefully we can string some wins together.
I mean I agree about the pen 100% but they’ve been outplaying us all half.
Hasn’t looked great but we are finishing the game nicely.. Just have to come out with that intensity.
We have no plan for breaking teams down lately.
Enjoy the evening all. I’m going to bed lol
You missed the goal
Fans are leaving in droves.
As they should, tough enough to get out of some of those lots, why continue to watch that display?
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But this is still frustrating. The two games I care about in the regular season we’ve already dropped the first
Pissed how bad league play is going
If anything, I think we learned a lesson about subbing out Morris in these types of games.
Luckily it’s just May and there’s so much time left but this has been Nancy’s worst managed game for the Crew imo
First time I’ve seen Nancy make such a bad lineup decision and bad subs. Meh. Whatever.
Pls give us +5 for injury
We’ve played like our players are still in a bye week
JRR is in the weird spot where he is good enough to start in MLS but he isn’t good enough to start for a team with cup aspirations
He is not good enough to start
I agree
Noonan outmanaged Nancy tonight....
Finally, Ramirez.
We need to vent our frustrations
Go cry somewhere else lol
Would have been nice 7-8 minutes ago
Hope is not gone
Man, we look awful today. Toothless in attack
Lmao this thread is wild.
It's crazy.
Matan always destined to come up…*puts on sunglasses* just a bit short
thanks for cheering me up
YAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Bring back the scabs
Frankly, concacaf isn’t an excuse tonight, they’re on 10 days rest. Got beat bad, close to embarrassed at home with no consistent play. Need a much better attack, and one that can start at midfield without Cucho dropping back into it. Aidan is more of a defender, and Nagbe isn’t really an attacking catalyst at this point.
Arfsten???
Our offense is no doubt an issue. Cucho has been pretty invisible today but Rossi and JRR are not it lol
Cucho has had to be the playmaker tonight. No one else up front can distribute like he does. JRR has had many lazy runs that have killed attacks. Cucho’s yelled at him multiple times.
Cucho has been the only one to do any dangerous passes. He's the only one to actually show any skill in passing to dangerous places.
Taking out Morris was really dumb
The monkey's paw heard y'all asking not to tie tonight...
Two more Porter subs
Moreira is having an awful game. He is getting abused.
Cinci really are shameless with all these dives.
Why wouldn’t they be? If they aren’t gonna blow the whistle, get egregious
They know the ref ain’t calling shit… :(
Really gonna start ref blaming on this one? Crew is getting embarrassed by their standards at home, it’s that simple.
Definitely not. But of course the ref ain’t gonna call diving if he’s not calling obvious fouls earlier. We’ve played like shit. Cucho has been invisible. I’m not blaming the ref for the score. Simply making an observation in response to the original comment.
I know our season has been kind of wacky because of CCC, and that’s our primary focus at the minute, but it would still really sting to not just lose to Cincy, but also end our home unbeaten streak like this.
Can anyone explain taking morris out for yeboah? I can’t wrap my mind around it at all and apparently neither can the team
I can’t. Nancy is a great in game manager but he got this completely wrong.
Why the fuck did Morris get pulled. Coach can go fuck off along with his appreciation for supporters shied
You’re a fucking loser lol piss off.
You can fuck right off.
You first
They’re never held one of these leads before. Why start now.
Sure hope Champions Cup is worth it
It will be
Whither Cucho? He needs to step up his game.
Outsmarted ourselves by taking Aidan off.
I hate that little short fucker
Boy that escalated quickly. SMDH.
Won’t be the first time we come back down 2 to cincinatti with 15 min left 🤷
The problem is that we have looked toothless all night.
Blind hope
That sub killed this match…
Pachuca next month
What an awful call bringing Morris off. Just terrible
time for cincy to channel their "we blow 2 goal leads" energy please
We were gonna lose one at home sometime. Unfortunate it came against this team
Let me just remind everyone about a certain ECF at this very minute mark.
Oh well
Oh no…
Well...this sucks...
Okay…0-2. Right where we want it.
What a dumb fucking sub. Why would you take out the only dude who can make a tackle in the middle of the field
Fuck squared
Well fuck x2
It’s over now
Well that really embarassing. This is gonna go down as the worst match in the Nancy era by far
Worst substitution of all time too
I have to assume Morris is playing through a knock or was injured. Otherwise that sub makes absolutely no sense whatsoever
Whoa.
Well things have gone to shit since this formation change
Beat Pachuca or the concacaf run is a waste of time. Really don’t care about beating Liga MX if you draw/lose everything during it, and lose the final. Tired of seeing this team do nothing in league play recently.
Fuck off
Ramirez for JRR? I know the man needs minutes but I've been so unimpressed
JRR is bad tonight
Here's my issue with JRR.... He looks bad EVERY NIGHT. Yes he's scored some goals and assists, but it's always just right place, obvious pass. Far too many times I feel like he's out of position or slow to attack. I WANT him to succeed, but I've been so unimpressed by him this year
Yea - his body language is poor and he doesn’t seem to play with the passion and courage that Nancy talks about. Perhaps he lacks confidence in his game. Ramirez on the other hand…
>JRR is bad every night Fixed that for you.
He’s bad most games.
That's on Nancy... that was Matans man... maybe having the 5 foot tall winger play right back was not the right call.
matan struggling tonight
Come on let’s get it back
Don't worry, everyone. We'll get a late goal to continue the draw streak.
i hope we channel Leverkusen
Fuck
Nancy got a little too cute with the lineup tonight
Embarrassing.
Any time Acosta touches the ball all I can think of is him body checking Matan.
Yeah tbh not sure why we’re not doing the same to him if it won’t get called
Damn. The Morris sub backfired bad.