This is the 22nd edition of the Hell is Real derby, with Columbus holding a 9W-6L-6D edge. The rivals have split a pair of MLS Cup Playoffs presented by Audi meetings, with FC Cincinnati winning last year’s Round One Best-of-3 Series.<\/p>\n
Columbus, meanwhile, will look to turn the page on their 2-1 midweek home defeat<\/a> to New York City FC<\/a>. Newly-acquired Designated Player Brais M\u00e9ndez<\/a> was in attendance at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field, but didn’t suit up for the Crew. Will he make his MLS debut in Hell is Real?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the 22nd edition of the Hell is Real derby, with Columbus holding a 9W-6L-6D edge. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[164265,12817,12818,86446,66135,135353,164266,11414,88,1084,90,89,6532,164267],"class_list":["post-410004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-clbvscin-07-25-2026","tag-columbus-crew","tag-fc-cincinnati","tag-la-galaxy","tag-nashville-sc","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlvsnsh-07-25-2026","tag-priority-match","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-sjvsla-07-25-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}