{"id":17092,"date":"2018-07-03T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=17092"},"modified":"2018-07-04T03:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T07:00:56","slug":"crew-sc-defeats-deportivo-saprissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2018\/07\/03\/crew-sc-defeats-deportivo-saprissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Crew SC Defeats Deportivo Saprissa After Lengthy Rain Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Columbus, Ohio (July 3, 2018)<\/strong> — After two and a half hours of a somewhat odd rain delay, the international friendly between Columbus Crew SC<\/a> and Deportivo Saprissa finally got the green light, with kickoff happening around 9:50 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n

Both teams agreed to play two 30-minute halves, with a 10-minute halftime interval.<\/p>\n

Columbus midfielder Eddie Opoku came close to opening the scoring in the eighth minute, but Saprissa keeper Aar\u00f3n Cruz came up with a big save.<\/p>\n

Connor Maloney also got close, with his shot beating Cruz but not the left post.<\/p>\n

Columbus Crew SC Defeats Deportivo Saprissa in Rain-Shortened Match<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Columbus Get Their First<\/h2>\n

Eduardo Sosa made vital key passes to forward Gyasi Zardes. The first saw the forward’s header just sail high over the crossbar.<\/p>\n

On the second one, Zardes converted as he collected the ball and was able to dribble around Aar\u00f3n Cruz and slot the ball home to give Crew SC the lead.<\/p>\n

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Keep Calm and Gyasi On, @gyasinho<\/a>! ?#Crew<\/a> SC | #CLBvSAP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ZiMAWLGY76<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Columbus Crew SC (@ColumbusCrewSC) July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Williams Scores Second<\/h2>\n

After a handful of substitutes for Columbus, they got right back to work.<\/p>\n

Columbus was awarded a corner in the 34th minute, and Pedro Santos serviced a perfect cross into the box that found the head of Josh Williams.<\/p>\n

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Set-piece maestro @josh3williams<\/a> makes it a 2-0 #CrewSC<\/a> lead in the 34th minute! ?#CrewSC<\/a> | #CLBvSAP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/HEuWz3fpqA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Columbus Crew SC (@ColumbusCrewSC) July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deportivo Saprissa thought they had scored a goal to pull one back but was whistled for an offside.<\/p>\n

What’s Next?<\/h2>\n

Saprissa will continue their pre-season with the\u00a0Colorado Rapids<\/a>. Meanwhile, Columbus will resume league action as they head back to Southern California to take on Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the\u00a0Los Angeles Galaxy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kickoff for that match is scheduled for 10:30 p.m. EST. This will be the first and only meeting between the two clubs this season and the first of a two-match road trip for Crew SC.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Daniel Herlensky, Columbus Crew SC Communications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Columbus Crew SC hosted Costa Rican club Deportivo Saprissa for an international friendly that saw Columbus triumph by a 2-0 scoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1693,"featured_media":17106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[35,245,2030,1611,1631,129,88,1218,57],"class_list":["post-17092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew","tag-colorado-rapids","tag-columbus-crew-sc","tag-deportivo-saprissa","tag-eduardo-sosa","tag-edward-opoku","tag-fifa","tag-gyasi-zardes","tag-los-angeles-galaxy","tag-mls"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}