2016 – The March Report

I realize that month-old news isn’t exactly “news,” but since this blog only aspires to be timely when it’s the summer and I’m able to bang out the posts on Mondays, you’ll forgive me doing a first-month-of-the-season report.  Below, you’ll find a few statements about each team’s results in March, along with links to the pertinent game reports, as you have in the past, followed by a few words and some stats, if they played.

EVAN BUSH [Montreal Impact]  •  Bush played all 270 minutes in the Impact’s three contests, which resulted in two wins and one loss.  He made a total of 14 saves – eight of them in a 3-2 win over Vancouver – and he authored a 3-0 shut out of the Red Bulls.

CHRIS KORB [DC United]  •  Not a lot to report in March, as Korb continues to recover from the ACL injury he suffered late last season.  DC went 0-2-3 in March, got bumped out of the CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinals by Mexican club Querétaro, and scored two goals while allowing nine.

JUSTIN MORROW & JOSH WILLIAMS [Toronto FC]  •  TFC earned four points in March, after a 1-1-1 string of results.  While Morrow started and played all of that trio of contests, Williams was an unused sub in a 2-0 victory over the Red Bulls, came on for the final minute of a 2-2 draw at NYCFC, and he started and played 86 minutes in a 1-0 loss at Sporting KC.

DARLINGTON NAGBE & BEN ZEMANSKI [Portland Timbers]  •  Like the Reds, Portland went 1-1-1 to start the season.  Nagbe started and played all of those games, while Zemanski was an unused sub in them.  Above and beyond that, Nagbe was named to the US Men’s National Team roster for two World Cup Qualifiers with Guatemala.  On 25 March in a 0-2 loss at Guatemala City, Nagbe subbed on at halftime for an ineffective Mix Diskerud and played the rest of the game.  Four days later in Columbus, he was an unused sub in the 4-0 win.

BRAD STUVER [Columbus Crew SC]  •  Not much to write about from a Stuver perspective here.  As the Crew took two points from its four games despite generally outplaying its opposition, Stuver was Steve Clark’s backup goalkeeper.  Too bad you don’t get points for possession.