There may not have been a better team for the Columbus Crew to face on Tuesday night than the New York Red Bulls. This had nothing to do with the Crew and the Red Bulls sitting close to each other in the Eastern Conference standings early in the final third of the season. It is rather about what it takes to compete with a team like New York.
Prior to the game at Lower.com Field, Porter challenged his team to have more fight, have more hunger. Losers of eight of the previous nine games, he didn’t believe the Black & Gold showed enough of that in the recent stretch.