Columbus Crew and Los Angeles FC will face off on Saturday the 21st of May at 19:30 in the th week of the Major League Soccer.
Columbus Crew occupies the 8th position in the standings with 13 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against New York City in its last match in the Major League Soccer. So far, it has won 3 times, draw 4 times, and lost 4 times.
Los Angeles FC occupies the 2nd position in the standings with 23 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Austin in its last match in the Major League Soccer. Until now, it has won 7 times, drawn twice, and lost 3 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Columbus Crew
Columbus Crew has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 63.64%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (7 times) and 4-3-3 (4 times).
Caleb Porter is expected to play against Los Angeles FC with the following players: E. Room, P. Martins Santos, J. Mensah, J. Williams, S. Moreira, J. de Lima Junior, A. Morris, D. Nagbe, L. Zelarayán, D. Etienne Jr. and Miguel Berry.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Columbus Crew would be 29.18.
M. Hairston and K. Molino will definitely miss the match.
Los Angeles FC
Los Angeles FC has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (8 times or 66.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times) and 4-1-4-1 (4 times).
Steven Cherundolo is expected to play against Columbus Crew with the following players: M. Crépeau, D. Palacios Espinoza, M. Fall, S. Ibeagha, K. Acosta, I. Sánchez Farrés, F. Ginella Dabezies, J. Cifuentes Charcopa, K. Opoku, C. Vela Garrido and C. Arango Duque.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Los Angeles FC would be 26.18.
Steven Cherundolo will probably not be able to employ I. Tajouri-Shradi because of injury.
J. Gaines, R. Edwards, R. Hollingshead, E. Segura Martínez and L. Blessing will definitely miss the match.
