Every professional sports team goes through injuries and this year, the Columbus Crew has had its fair share. Although those injuries don’t normally have an impact on a team’s top players at the same time.
After a tough stretch of matches, where Columbus was without central midfielder Darlington Nagbe and playmaker Lucas Zelarayan, their return was expected to give the team momentum going into the MLS Cup playoffs. Until the club released the team’s lineup against the Houston Dynamo and Gyasi Zardes’ name wasn’t listed.
A day before their trip to Texas, Zardes suffered an injury at the end of practice.