Welcome back to the Anatomy of a Goal, where each week we dissect one goal (or near goal) from Columbus Crew SCs previous match.<\/p>\n
For match 19 of the 2020 MLS Season, we take a look at Victor Cabreras 67th minute own goal that gave the Crew a goal and led to a draw in Saturdays match against Houston Dynamo.<\/p>\n
Here is a look at the own goal by the Dynamo defender. <\/p>\n
Columbus took the field in Houston with Darlington Nagbe in the lineup for the first time since early September. While Nagbe completed nearly all of his passes, the Black & Gold showed the same road match rust that we have come to expect this season. A Memo Rodriguez goal in the first half gave the Dynamo a lead that carried until the 67th minute. <\/p>\n
The game-tying goal begins with a Pedro Santos interception. Santos picks off the ball and sends a pass back toward Milton Valenzuela. <\/p>\n
Valenzuela picks up Santos interception and slides the ball over to Artur to set up the offense. <\/p>\n
Artur spies Harrison Afful, hidden underneath the on-screen advertisement, and hits a field-switching pass to the right back. <\/p>\n
Afful takes a few touches toward the sideline and pays a pass forward to Luis Diaz. <\/p>\n
Diaz crosses midfield and finds himself with four options. He can play a pass forward to Lucas Zelarayan, carry the ball toward the middle of the field, play a long diagonal back to Artur or drop a pass to Aidan Morris. <\/p>\n
Diaz plays a safe pass back to Morris. <\/p>\n
Morris carries forward and looks to make a pass back forward to Diaz, but has to get the ball around Darwin Ceren. <\/p>\n
Ceren sticks a foot out and is able to get in the way of Morris pass to Diaz. <\/p>\n
Luckily, Cerens interception deflects right to Harrison Afful. <\/p>\n
Afful immediately hits a pass right to Morris. <\/p>\n
Morris carries the ball forward and resets back to Artur. <\/p>\n
Artur moves the ball forward and finds himself with three options. He can either play a pass forward to Zelarayan, hit a long diagonal to Santos or play a pass up to Valenzuela. <\/p>\n
Artur makes the safe pass over to Valenzuela. <\/p>\n
And Valenzuela makes a safe pass right back to Artur. <\/p>\n
Artur picks up Valenzuelas pass and sends a long ball over to Jonathan Mensah who is open in the middle of the field. <\/p>\n
Mensah finds Aidan Moors a dozen yards ahead of him. <\/p>\n
Morris lets the ball roll ahead of him and hits a very good first touch pass forward to Afful. <\/p>\n
Afful corrals Morris pass and carries it a few yards forward, where he hits a pass into the path of Diaz. <\/p>\n
Diaz turns toward the goal and hits a low cross into the penalty box toward Krisztian Nemeth. <\/p>\n
Maynor Figureoa is the first obstacle between Diazs cross and Nemeth. <\/p>\n
The ball just edges past Figueroa as Cabrera gets between Nemeth and the ball. <\/p>\n
Cabrera slides toward the ball in an attempt to clear it out of bounds. The Dynamo center back gets a touch on the ball, preventing Nemeth from getting on the end of the cross. <\/p>\n
Fortunately for Columbus, Cabreras attempted clearance rockets toward the Houston goal. <\/p>\n
Marko Maric gets his hand up but isnt able to react quickly enough as the ball soars past him . . . <\/p>\n
. . . into the back of the net!<\/p>\n
Findings: <\/p>\n
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