Columbus Crew at Chivas USA at Home Depot Center
With Chivas USA seeking to keep pace with 3-0 Seattle, Coach Preki has made two changes to the team that beat FC Dallas last weekend to move to 2-0 to start the season for the first time in club history.
Mariano Trujillo, who has started the last two games at right back drops to the bench with Carey Talley moving over from central defense to assume that position.
That creates room for Jim Curtin to start in central defense for his first start of the season, while Atiba Harris moves up front in place of the injured Justin Braun. Sacha Kljestan returns from World Cup qualifying and starts in midfield.
The Chivas USA lineup: Thornton, Talley, Curtin, Thomas, Bornstein, Kljestan, Marsch, nagamua, mayen , harris and Lillingston.
New signing Chukwudi Chijindu is on the bench, while other options include Alecko Eskandarian, Jorge Flores, Michael Lahoud and Bojan Stepanovic.
No sign of Maykel Galindo. Marsch received a plaque pregame marking his 300th MLS appearance last week against Dallas.
The (0-1-2) Crew starts Riverside's Chad Marshall on defense, Rolling Hills Estates' Robbie Rogers in midfield, while Guillermo Barros Schelotto and former Galaxy striker Alejandro Moreno are up front.
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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.
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