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Columbus Crew 1-1 Chicago Fire - August 31, 2019 / MLS 2019

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MLS 2019 - Journée 26 - Conférence Est

Mapfre Stadium - Columbus - United States

August 31, 2019 - 19:30

16 438

Columbus Crew

1 - 1

Chicago Fire

Assist by Luis ArgudoPedro Santos

27'

90+4'

Przemyslaw FrankowskiAssist by Aleksandar Katai

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27' - Goal Pedro Santos27

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46' - Yellow card Jonathan Bornstein

48' - Yellow card Francisco Calvo

62' - Substitution Luis Diazis substituted by Youness Mokhtar62

67' - Substitution Nicolás Gaitánis substituted by Fabian Herbers photo Micheal Azira

67' - Substitution Brandt Bronicois substituted by Micheal Azira

82' - Yellow card Bastian Schweinsteiger

85' - Substitution Gyasi Zardesis substituted by Jordan Hamilton85

86' - Substitution Jonathan Bornsteinis substituted by Djordje Mihailovic

88' - Substitution Luis Argudois substituted by David Guzman88

94' - Goal Przemyslaw Frankowski

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Columbus Crew

1 - 1

Chicago Fire

Columbus Crew Chicago Fire

Team line-ups

Columbus Crew

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

11Zardes85

Gyasi Zardes

United States

B.date02/09/1991

Age27 years

H1m88

positionStriker

2Argudo88

Luis Argudo

United States

B.date13/12/1995

Age23 years

H1m75

positionWinger

7Santos27

Pedro Santos

Portugal

B.date22/04/1988

Age31 years

H1m73

positionWinger

18Diaz62

Luis Diaz

Costa Rica

B.date04/12/1998

Age20 years

H1m80

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

8Artur

Artur

Brazil

B.date11/03/1996

Age23 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

6Trapp

Will Trapp

United States

B.date15/01/1993

Age26 years

H1m73

positionDefensive Midfielder

31Maloney

Connor Maloney

United States

B.date18/05/1995

Age24 years

positionRight full-back

30Keita

Aboubacar Keita

United States

B.date06/04/2000

Age19 years

H1m88

positionLeft central defender

21Crognale

Alex Crognale

United States

B.date27/08/1994

Age25 years

positionCentral defender

25Afful

Harrison Afful

Ghana

B.date24/07/1986

Age33 years

H1m70

positionRight full-back

1Room

Eloy Room

Curaçao

B.date06/02/1989

Age30 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Eloy Room		30	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Alex Crognale		25	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	D	Aboubacar Keita		19	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	D	Harrison Afful		33	128	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
31	D	Connor Maloney		24	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Artur		23	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Will Trapp		26	201	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Luis Diaz	62	20	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Gyasi Zardes	85	27	60	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	M	Luis Argudo	88	23	42	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Pedro Santos	27	31	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Chicago Fire

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

23Nikolics

Nemanja Nikolics

Hungary

B.date31/12/1987

Age31 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

11Frankowski94

Przemyslaw Frankowski

Poland

B.date12/04/1995

Age24 years

H1m75

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

20Gaitán67

Nicolás Gaitán

Argentina

B.date23/02/1988

Age31 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

10Katai

Aleksandar Katai

Serbia

B.date06/02/1991

Age28 years

H1m82

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

6McCarty

Dax McCarty

United States

B.date30/04/1987

Age32 years

H1m75

positionBox-to-box midfielder

13Bronico67

Brandt Bronico

United States

B.date20/06/1995

Age24 years

H1m73

positionOffensive Midfielder

3Bornstein8646

Jonathan Bornstein

United States

B.date07/11/1984

Age34 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

5Calvo48

Francisco Calvo

Costa Rica

B.date08/07/1992

Age27 years

H1m81

positionLeft central defender

31Schweinsteiger82

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Germany

B.date01/08/1984

Age35 years

H1m83

positionBox-to-box midfielder

4Kappelhof

Johan Kappelhof

Netherlands

B.date05/08/1990

Age29 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

27Kronholm

Kenneth Kronholm

Germany

B.date14/10/1985

Age33 years

H1m89

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
27	G	Kenneth Kronholm		33	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Francisco Calvo	48	27	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Johan Kappelhof		29	131	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Jonathan Bornstein	8646	34	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Dax McCarty		32	89	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
31	D	Bastian Schweinsteiger	82	35	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Nicolás Gaitán	67	31	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Brandt Bronico	67	24	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Aleksandar Katai		28	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Przemyslaw Frankowski	94	24	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Nemanja Nikolics		31	100	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

29.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
24	G	Jon Kempin		26
9	M	David Guzman	88	29	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
34	M	Youness Mokhtar	62	28	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Eduardo Sosa		23
5	F	Jordan Hamilton	85	23	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Romario Williams		25
29	F	David Accam		28

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
45	G	Richard Sanchez		25
2	D	Marcelo		30
21	M	Fabian Herbers	67	26	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Micheal Azira	67	32	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	M	Jeremiah Gutjahr		22
14	M	Djordje Mihailovic	86	20	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Diego Campos		23

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Alex Crognale

Jonathan Mensah

OUT

Aboubacar Keita

Josh Williams

OUT

Luis Argudo

Youness Mokhtar

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Aleksandar Katai

C.J. Sapong

OUT

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Micheal Azira

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Caleb Porter

Success rate in this team:

28 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

Porter vs Chicago Fire

1 victory

6 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on August 31, 2019

Porter vs Paunovic

0 victory

4 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on August 31, 2019

Manager

Age

Match num

Veljko Paunovic

145

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

34 %

Paunovic vs Columbus Crew

3 victories

7 draws

3 losses

Latest figure on August 31, 2019

Paunovic vs Porter

0 victory

4 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on August 31, 2019

Referee

Drew Fischer

9 victories	6 draws	5 losses	Columbus Crew20 matches	General total	Chicago Fire10 matches	2 victories	4 draws	4 losses
0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Columbus Crew1 match	Season total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on October 21, 2023					Latest figure on August 31, 2019

4th official

Yusri Rudolf

0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Columbus Crew1 match	General total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Columbus Crew1 match	Season total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on August 31, 2019					Latest figure on August 31, 2019

Video referee

Rosendo Mendoza

0 victory	3 draws	0 loss	Columbus Crew3 matches	General total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Columbus Crew1 match	Season total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on August 31, 2019					Latest figure on August 31, 2019

Videos

September 01, 2019

Comments

Key figures

Dax McCarty played his game number 30 vs Columbus Crew in his professional career

No Columbus Crew manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Caleb Porter has done less than 1.13 goals scored per game .

Only back at the time of Bob Bradley head of Chicago Fire (30/10/1997-05/10/2002), you can see a manager go over Veljko Paunovic with 1.47 goals scored per game in Major League Soccer (1.77).

Read the next 16 key stats

General ranking

-1	8	Impact de Montréal	37 pts	30 rd
	9	Orlando City	34 pts	29 rd
	10	Chicago Fire	34 pts	30 rd
	11	Columbus Crew	31 pts	30 rd
	12	FC Cincinnati	18 pts	28 rd

General ranking

-1	8	Impact de Montréal	37 pts	30 rd
	9	Orlando City	34 pts	29 rd
	10	Chicago Fire	34 pts	30 rd
	11	Columbus Crew	31 pts	30 rd
	12	FC Cincinnati	18 pts	28 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LColumbus Crew 0-1 Sporting Kansas City23/06/2019

LColumbus Crew 0-2 Orlando City29/06/2019

LColumbus Crew 1-2 Seattle Sounders06/07/2019

VColumbus Crew 2-1 CF Montréal20/07/2019

DColumbus Crew 2-2 FC Cincinnati10/08/2019

DColumbus Crew 2-2 Toronto FC17/08/2019

Overall

VNew York Red Bulls 2-3 Columbus Crew27/07/2019

DSan Jose Earthquakes 1-1 Columbus Crew03/08/2019

DColumbus Crew 2-2 FC Cincinnati10/08/2019

DColumbus Crew 2-2 Toronto FC17/08/2019

LNew York City FC 1-0 Columbus Crew21/08/2019

VFC Cincinnati 1-3 Columbus Crew25/08/2019

Current form

Away

LNew York Red Bulls 3-1 Chicago Fire28/06/2019

LSporting Kansas City 1-0 Chicago Fire06/07/2019

LPhiladelphia Union 2-0 Chicago Fire20/07/2019

VHouston Dynamo 0-1 Chicago Fire03/08/2019

LPortland Timbers 3-2 Chicago Fire14/08/2019

LNew England Revolution 2-1 Chicago Fire24/08/2019

Overall

DChicago Fire 0-0 D.C. United27/07/2019

VHouston Dynamo 0-1 Chicago Fire03/08/2019

VChicago Fire 3-2 CF Montréal10/08/2019

LPortland Timbers 3-2 Chicago Fire14/08/2019

VChicago Fire 2-0 Philadelphia Union17/08/2019

LNew England Revolution 2-1 Chicago Fire24/08/2019

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Drawing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	3	1
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	0	2
Scoring streak	4	1
Conceding streak	7	14

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	2	1
Winless streak	2	1
Drawless streak	7	5
Scoring streak	3	5
Conceding streak	2	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

11	General ranking (Competition total)	10
11	General ranking (Home / Away)	12
685	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	690
17	FBDB index ranking (National)	18

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

29	Number of games (Competition total)	29
15	Number of games (Home / Away)	14
8	Victories (Competition total)	8
5	Victories (Home / Away)	1
6	Draws (Competition total)	9
4	Draws (Home / Away)	3
15	Losses (Competition total)	12
6	Losses (Home / Away)	10

Goals

32	Goals scored (Competition total)	43
18	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
43	Goals conceded (Competition total)	42
21	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	26
1.1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.48
1.2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.86
1.48	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.45
1.4	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.86

Betting aid

14	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	14
8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
4	Clean sheets (Competition total)	7
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
11	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	7
4	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	6
14	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	17
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
2-2 (3 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (3 times)

Bookings

52	Yellow cards (Competition total)	53
29	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	30
1	Red cards (Competition total)	3
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Gyasi Zardes	11 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	11 goals	Nemanja Nikolics
Pedro Santos	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	4 goals	Nemanja Nikolics
Gyasi Zardes	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Nemanja Nikolics
Gyasi Zardes	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Pedro Santos	4 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	9 assists	Nicolás Gaitán
Will Trapp	3 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	3 assists	Nicolás Gaitán
Gyasi Zardes	5 goals, 1 assist during the last 8 matches	The fittest player	5 goals during the last 5 matches	Nemanja Nikolics

Historical head to head

Home

34 matches

14 v

10 d

10 l

63 gf

44 ga

Away

39 matches

6 v

12 d

21 l

46 gf

64 ga

Total

73 matches

20 v

22 d

31 l

109 gf

108 ga

Historical head to head

Home

39 matches

21 v

12 d

6 l

64 gf

46 ga

Away

34 matches

10 v

10 d

14 l

44 gf

63 ga

Total

73 matches

31 v

22 d

20 l

108 gf

109 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	October 26, 2003
Home	6 - 2	October 26, 2003

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 2	June 25, 2014
Away	2 - 0	April 30, 2005

Latest head to head

July 17, 2019 - MLS 2019

Chicago Fire

2 - 2

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

August 23, 2018 - MLS 2018

Chicago Fire

1 - 1

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

June 06, 2018 - US Open Cup 2018

Columbus Crew

2 - 2

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

May 12, 2018 - MLS 2018

Columbus Crew

3 - 0

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

April 07, 2018 - MLS 2018

Chicago Fire

1 - 0

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Jeff Cunningham	13 goals	1999 - 2004
Edson Buddle	7 goals	2002 - 2004
Federico Higuaín	5 goals	2013 - 2018
Ethan Finlay	4 goals	2014 - 2017
Eddie Gaven	4 goals	2006 - 2012
Kei Kamara	4 goals	2015 - 2015

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Columbus Crew

Ante Razov	11 goals	1999 - 2003
Chris Rolfe	8 goals	2005 - 2012
Damani Ralph	5 goals	2003 - 2004
Nemanja Nikolics	5 goals	2017 - 2018
David Accam	5 goals	2015 - 2017
Brian McBride	5 goals	2008 - 2010

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Chad Marshall	26 matches	2004 - 2013
Jeff Cunningham	26 matches	1998 - 2011
Eddie Gaven	21 matches	2006 - 2013
Justin Meram	20 matches	2011 - 2018
Mike Clark	20 matches	1998 - 2003
Duncan Oughton	19 matches	2001 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Columbus Crew

CJ Brown	38 matches	1998 - 2010
Logan Pause	31 matches	2003 - 2014
Chris Armas	26 matches	1998 - 2007
Jesse Marsch	25 matches	1998 - 2005
Zach Thornton	23 matches	1998 - 2006
Chris Rolfe	23 matches	2005 - 2013

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Brian McBride

199 matches

72 matches

1996 - 2010

Tony Tchani

145 matches

16 matches

2011 - 2018

Jon Busch

101 matches

90 matches

2002 - 2015

Dilly Duka

70 matches

41 matches

2010 - 2017

Eric Gehrig

54 matches

36 matches

2011 - 2016

Dominic Oduro

46 matches

73 matches

2011 - 2014

Total : 22 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Ante Razov

7 matches

196 matches

1998 - 2005

Jon Busch

101 matches

90 matches

2002 - 2015

David Accam

16 matches

85 matches

2015 - 2019

Dominic Oduro

46 matches

73 matches

2011 - 2014

Brian McBride

199 matches

72 matches

1996 - 2010

Andy Herron

19 matches

72 matches

2004 - 2008

Total : 22 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
+11	Philadelphia Union	51	29	15	6	8	54	42	+12
+12	New York City FC	50	27	14	8	5	51	34	+17
-23	Atlanta United	48	28	15	3	10	47	33	+14
+14	D.C. United	42	30	11	9	10	39	38	+1
-15	New York Red Bulls	41	29	12	5	12	47	44	+3
6	New England Revolution	39	28	10	9	9	41	47	-6
+17	Toronto FC	38	28	10	8	10	44	45	-1
-18	Impact de Montréal	37	30	11	4	15	42	56	-14
9	Orlando City	34	29	9	7	13	35	39	-4
10	Chicago Fire	34	30	8	10	12	44	43	+1
11	Columbus Crew	31	30	8	7	15	33	44	-11
12	FC Cincinnati	18	28	5	3	20	28	67	-39

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Columbus Crew 1-1 Chicago Fire - August 31, 2019 / MLS 2019

Columbus Crew

1 - 1

Chicago Fire

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Porter vs Chicago Fire

Porter vs Paunovic

Manager

Paunovic vs Columbus Crew

Paunovic vs Porter

Referee

4th official

Video referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Best historical scorers against Columbus Crew

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Players with most games played vs Columbus Crew

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

Post-match general ranking