Nashville Takes Three on the Road as Cincinnati Goes Scoreless

Nashville SC went into Cincinnati and left with a 2-0 win, and FC Cincinnati has nothing to show for a home afternoon except a shutout loss. That's the headline, and it's a bad one for the home side.

A scoreless night at home should make any club uncomfortable. Cincinnati couldn't find the net in its own building, and in a league where one moment can decide everything, that's not a footnote. It's a question that needs answering before the next home date.

Nashville deserves credit. Two goals on the road is a productive night by any measure, and keeping the home side at zero means the visitors did enough right to walk out with all three points. Away wins are hard to manufacture in MLS, and this one doesn't need an asterisk.

The final score doesn't tell us everything about how the match unfolded, and we won't pretend it does. What it does tell us is simple: Nashville was the side that finished, and Cincinnati was the side that didn't. Sometimes that's all you need to know.