{"id":480172,"date":"2026-10-29T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480172\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:08:40","slug":"crew-blank-dallas-2-0-to-move-into-final-eastern-conference-playoff-spot-with-2-matches-remaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480172\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew blank Dallas 2-0 to move into final Eastern Conference playoff spot with 2 matches remaining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Associated Press<\/p>\n

FRISCO, Texas (AP) \u2014 Santiago Rodriguez<\/a> set up a goal by Gonzalo Tapia<\/a> in the first half before scoring in the second and the Columbus Crew kept their postseason hopes alive by beating FC Dallas<\/a> 2-0 on Wednesday night for their fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n

Patrick Schulte<\/a> finished with seven saves for Columbus (12-15-5) to earn his seventh clean sheet in 32 starts this season and help the club move into the ninth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with two matches remaining.<\/p>\n

Tapia used assists from Anass Zaroury<\/a> and Rodriguez<\/a> to score in a third straight match in his first nine MLS<\/a> appearances and give Columbus a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute. It was the first assist for Zaroury in his sixth league match and the seventh this season for Rodr\u00edguez.<\/p>\n

The Crew took a two-goal lead in the 70th minute on Rodr\u00edguez’s third goal in his 10th appearance of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Daniel De Sousa<\/a> Britto had one save for Dallas (15-8-9), which has already clinched a playoff spot in the Western Conference. <\/p>\n

Columbus improves to 4-9-3 on the road, while Dallas falls to 8-3-5 at home.<\/p>\n

It was only the second loss for Dallas in the last 11 matches.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Columbus: Hosts D.C. United on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Dallas: At Sporting Kansas City<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full MLS coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press FRISCO, Texas (AP) \u2014 Santiago Rodriguez set up a goal by Gonzalo Tapia in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[161931,35732,102,104,103,68046,161933,136,161930,161932],"class_list":["post-480172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-anass-zaroury","tag-columbus","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-event_recap","tag-gonzalo-tapia","tag-mls","tag-patrick-schulte","tag-santiago-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}