Columbus Crew SC will see the field for the third time in just eight days as the team heads to Texas to face the Houston Dynamo on Saturday at the BBVA Compass Stadium. After back-to-back setbacks at home, the Black & Gold will try to bounce back with road points in the Lone Star State.
Head coach Caleb Porter has set up a plan to approach these three games and he said during the week that he would stick to it regardless of the results, so I’d expect a very different lineup against the Dynamo, with several regular starters getting a break on this trip after the congested match schedule
It’s hard to imagine what Porter has in mind, but here goes my best guess:
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Footnotes:
- If Porter decides to rest the players with the most mileage in Texas, Jonathan Mensah is on the top of the list to get a day off after he played in each of the 720 minutes of the Crew season so far.