Major League Soccer's three-week break from league play is expected to ultimately yield a completely healthy Crew team when games resume.

In the meantime, however, it's a busy time for a Crew roster now dealing with a season-high number of injuries entering Tuesday's U.S. Open Cup game against Indy Eleven at the University of Akron. Six players will be unavailable due to injury while new acquisition Alvaro Rey is yet to join the team while working to secure his visa.

Major League Soccer�s three-week break from league play is expected to ultimately yield a completely healthy Crew team when games resume.

In the meantime, however, it�s a busy time for a Crew roster now dealing with a season-high number of injuries entering Tuesday�s U.S. Open Cup game against Indy Eleven at the University of Akron. Six players will be unavailable due to injury while new acquisition Alvaro Rey is yet to join the team while working to secure his visa.

Designated player Federico Higuain, midfielders Wil Trapp, Agustin Viana and Fifi Baiden and goalkeepers Matt Lampson and Brad Stuver will all be unavailable – but all six should be healthy in time for the Crew�s June 28 game against FC Dallas.

Higuain suffered a pulled hamstring during the first half of the Crew�s 1-1 home tie against Real Salt Lake and sat out the next game. He is back home in Argentina, but coach Gregg Berhalter said today that he will be recovered in time for the Dallas game.

�He�s progressing well,� Berhalter said. �He�s recovering from his hamstring (injury). He�s doing physical treatment and running and stuff. He�s receiving treatment (in Argentina) and doing rehab there.�

Trapp has missed the last three games with what has been described as a right knee strain. Today, he was seen doing some workouts on the side of the Crew�s training session at its facility in Obetz. Berhalter said Trapp should be back to being fully active by �this week, next week, the end of the week.�

Trapp said he was not sure how he suffered the injury.

�I mean, I�d like to be playing,� he said today. �I�m doing well. It's day by day, (and) every day is a little bit better. (It was) just one of those things in training. I can�t really tell you the exact instance.�

Trapp confirmed that he did not undergo any surgery and that the plan is for him to be back in time for league play.

Lampson and Viana, however, have both undergone surgeries. Berhalter said that Lampson had knee surgery but that he is expected back next week. That means the Crew will likely go with starting goalkeeper Steve Clark against Indy with MLS pool goalkeeper Daniel Withrow available as the backup. Withrow spent last season with the Crew.

Viana, meanwhile, had a procedure done June 9, Berhalter said. He was seen after training with bandages on the left side of his head near his ear, and Berhalter did not share the specifics of the surgery.

�It�s something that�s going to keep him out,� he said. �I don�t know if we want to fully disclose anything.�

Viana said that he would be fine after today�s training session but said it was difficult to explain the procedure.

Stuver is out after undergoing left ankle surgery and Baiden�s ailment is unknown.

In addition, midfielder Alvaro Rey is expected to be in town Tuesday but is unlikely to feature in the game.

In all, the Crew is expected to have 18 players available for Tuesday�s game including Withrow, who is not technically on the roster.

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