Columbus Crew-Chivas USA at Home Dept Center
Looks like they've resodded part of the field after Cal State Dominguez Hills graduation ceremonies tore it up in places.
Chivas USA (3-4-2) fields an unchanged starting lineup for the first time this season:
goalkeeper Brad Guzan; defenders Cary Talley, Bobby Burling, Jim Curtin and Francisco Mendoza; midfielders Sacha Kljestan, Jesse Marsch, Paulo Nagamura; forwards Justin Braun, Jorge Flores and Atiba Harris.
Flores and Harris are expected to play wide, almost as wingers, with Kljestan tucking in behind the strikers.
Defenders Claudio Suarez and Shavar Thomas are on the bench, as is striker Ante Razov.
Maykel Galindo misses his third successive game through injury, one of eight starters on a still extensive injury list.
Crew Coach Sigi Schmid also names an unchanged lineup that includes Rolling Hills Estates' Robbie Rogers in midfield (five MLS goals), former Galaxy duo Alejandro Moreno and Ezra Hendrickson and Argentine veteran Guillermo Barros Schelotto. The Crew are 6-2-1.
The game is on FSN.
The game is on FSN and in Spanish on Channel 54, as part of Chivas USA's new 10-game local Spanish-language TV package.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
Leave a comment