TQL Stadium hosts the Ohio Derby with Cincinnati battered and bleeding, three key men - Robinson, Evander and Nwobodo - all sidelined. The Crew arrive in the kind of form that makes a scout's eyes light up: four wins from five, scoring in every single game.
The numbers do the talking. Cincinnati has zero clean sheets in their last five, conceding in all five. Columbus kept a clean sheet in their last five and conceded in only four. In the head-to-head, Cincinnati won just two of four meetings and leaked seven goals against Columbus in that stretch.
The Crew at 2.62 is the bigger price for the form team in a rivalry where absences swing everything. Columbus are sharper, healthier and hungrier. I'm taking them.
The numbers behind the tip
Form · last five
Goals per game · last five
Head-to-head · last five
| 26.07.26 | MLS | 2–1 | O2.5 |
| 09.11.25 | MLS | 2–1 | O2.5 |
| 03.11.25 | MLS | 4–0 | O2.5 |
| 27.10.25 | MLS | 1–0 | U2.5 |
| 13.07.25 | MLS | 2–4 | O2.5 |
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