Crew vs. KC: It's Playoff Time

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Apoligies for the two day hiatus, been extremely busy with school work.

Here are some worthwhile reading to get you hyped for 8 p.m.:
Schmid's Crew have eyes on the double.

"There's a lot of little things. Today at practice when they were jogging, it's Guillermo, Gino Padula and Robbie Rogers. And they're talking the whole time. He's not demonstrative where you see him pointing and waving and going over and here's how you need to play. He's been very good, especially with Robbie and some of the young guys, dropping a word there and saying, 'Hey, when you do this, this is what you need to do. When you see me have the ball here, just go and I'll find you.' And being able to coordinate those things with them. That has helped our team as well. He certainly is an more important part of our team because the guys seem now pretty thoroughly how to play with him."

Crew not lacking in big game experience.

"Enough of us have played in big games that we know what's at stake," said Hejduk. "We know how to prepare ourselves for these types of games. We're trying to keep that steady keel."
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"Obviously Brian Carroll has added a lot to our team and certainly now Robbie Rogers is a different player than what he was last year," says Moreno. "The important thing for us is that those young guys -- Robbie Rogers, Eddie Gaven, Brad Evans -- perform at a consistent level. We need them game in and game out."

Crew hopeful for the start of a long playoff run.

"(The Wizards are) more of a running team now, and I think they recognize what their field forces them to do," said Moreno, who led the Crew with nine goals this season. "It's going to be a very disputed game. Lots of battling, lots of chippy fouls. Perhaps not a lot of rhythm to the game but a lot of balls into the box."