CF Montreal (4-10-5, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Columbus Crew (5-9-5, 10th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Columbus -170, Montreal +393, Draw +317; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: CF Montreal visits the Columbus Crew in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n
The Crew are 4-6-4 in conference games. The Crew are 27-5-7 when they record a pair of goals.<\/p>\n
Montreal is 4-8-4 against Eastern Conference opponents. Montreal is 26-44 in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Wessam Abou Ali<\/a> has five goals and one assist for the Crew. Hugo Picard<\/a> has two goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Prince-Osei Owusu<\/a> has 11 goals and six assists for Montreal. Daniel Rios<\/a> has two goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Crew: 13-9-8, averaging 4.5 goals, 9.9 shots on goal and 12.9 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n Montreal: 9-9-12, averaging 3.6 goals, 16.5 shots on goal and 19.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 4.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Crew: Sekou Tidiany Bangoura (injured), Jamal Thiare<\/a> (injured), Wessam Abou Ali (injured).<\/p>\n Montreal: Josh Nteziryayo<\/a> (injured), Bode Davis (injured), Efrain Morales<\/a> (injured), Frankie Amaya<\/a> (injured), Wikelman Carmona<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CF Montreal (4-10-5, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Columbus Crew (5-9-5, 10th in the Eastern Conference) Columbus,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45985,54963,321,54965,54968,54969,54964,359,50,54962,54967,54966],"class_list":["post-172211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-columbus","tag-daniel-rios","tag-efrain-morales","tag-frankie-amaya","tag-hugo-picard","tag-jamal-thiare","tag-josh-nteziryayo","tag-mls","tag-montreal","tag-prince-osei-owusu","tag-wessam-abou-ali","tag-wikelman-carmona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}