Woeful Toronto FC loses 10th in a row, falls to Crew

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Diego Rossi scored early, Jacen Russell-Rowe used an help from goalkeeper Patrick Schulte to attain late and the Columbus Crew handed Toronto its tenth straight loss in all competitions, upping their unbeaten streak at house to 12 with a 2-0 victory on Saturday evening.

Rossi discovered the web in his second look and first begin for Columbus (12-7-6) in his return to Major League Soccer, scoring unassisted within the twenty first minute to present the Crew a 1-0 lead. Rossi scored 48 objectives for Los Angeles FC from 2018-21 earlier than heading abroad to play for Turkey’s Fenerbahçe S.Okay.

Russell-Rowe used a move from Schulte within the 89th minute to attain his fourth purpose of the season.

Schulte completed with three saves to earn the clear sheet for Columbus. Tomás Romero had six saves in his third begin of the season for Toronto (3-13-10).

The Crew beat Toronto for a 3rd straight time at house after going 2-3-5 within the first 10 house conferences within the collection.

Toronto turns into the fourth staff in league historical past to lose 10 straight in all competitions. Cincinnati set the document at 14 spanning the 2021-22 seasons.

“Yeah, it was another difficult result,” mentioned Toronto interim head coach Terry Dunfield. “Again, a similar story to our previous matches; that the goals we conceded were unnecessary and we’re better than that in those moments. I thought tonight, against a very good side in Columbus, we created five or six very good opportunities, and we should have scored one or two.”

Dunfield mentioned he tried to stay optimistic after the loss.

“My message after the sport was, ‘thank you for your efforts tonight.’ I assumed our boys labored our ass off as we’ve executed for the previous 9 weeks.

“If we keep creating opportunities like that, we’re going to start scoring. We’re going to start scoring consistently two, three goals, and I’m gutted for the guys; the two we gave up were tough ones.”

The Crew are 9-0-3 of their final 12 contests at house and 16-1-7 of their final 24. Columbus has had seven unbeaten streaks of 11 or extra at house for the reason that begin of the 2016 season.

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Columbus travels to play the Houston Dynamo on Wednesday. Toronto returns house to host the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday.