Wilfried Nancy asks a lot of his team, and is not the type to get ahead of himself or bask in his own glory, particularly just one month into a new season. Yet even he had to pause and acknowledge the comprehensiveness of his Columbus Crew’s victory over a traditionally difficult opponent touted as an ascendant adversary in the MLS Eastern Conference.

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