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08/22 21:50 CDT Reed Baker-Whiting and Andy Njar score stoppage-time goals,
Nashville beats Crew 3-2
Reed Baker-Whiting and Andy Njar score stoppage-time goals, Nashville beats
Crew 3-2
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) --- Reed Baker-Whiting and Andy Njar scored
stoppage-time goals, Hany Mukhtar added a goal and an assist, and Nashville SC
beat the Columbus Crew 3-2 on Saturday night for their third consecutive win.
The Crew (5-11-5) have lost three straight are are winless in their last four.
Nashville (15-2-4), the points leader in all of MLS with 49, has one loss in
its last 13 games.
Baker-Whiting scored his first career goal when headed home a corner kick
played in to the back post by Mukhtar to make it 2-2 in the third minute of
stoppage time and Njar rolled a shot from the right side of the area that
slipped inside the back post about two minutes later to cap the scoring.
Mukhtar scored to give Nashville a 1-0 lead in the 27th minute. Daniel Lovitz
chipped an entry pass to the left side of the area, where Mukhtar patiently
shielded off a defender and then blasted a rising half-volley inside the near
post.
Mohamed Farsi put away a first-touch shot from the right side, his first goal
this season, to make it 1-1 in the 58th.
Andr Gomes, who signed with Columbus in February, scored his first career MLS
goal in the 68th minute to give the Crew a 2-1 lead. The 33-year-old Portugal
international scored on a free kick from 27 yards out.
Nashville beat the Crew 1-0 in Columbus on March 14.
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