The Columbus Crew of the last three matches isn’t the same as the Crew team that started the 2022 Major League Soccer season. After the first four Black & Gold matches, midfielder Lucas Zelarayán won MLS Player of the Month and Columbus had two strikers in Miguel Berry and Gyasi Zardes. Everything in the Crew world, outside of set piece defending, looked pretty good. The Black & Gold started undefeated and scored 10 goals in four matches.
Heading into the 11th MLS match of the year, only Berry remains after Zardes was traded to the Colorado Rapids on April 22 and Zelarayán continues to recover from a knee injury sustained on March 20.