After months of talking about the difficulty of 2021, preseason signings and preseason matches that don’t count, the Columbus Crew returns to Lower.com Field on Saturday to open the 2022 MLS season. Columbus welcomes the Vancouver Whitecaps to Ohio for the first time since March 31, 2018.
Like in past years, contributors to Massive Report will still give predictions on each match but we’re making this season more competitive. Each week, correct match results earn the predictor a point. A correct scoreline and match result earns three points.
Since this is the first match, there’s no staff table to share, but there are a lot of predictions to get through, so here we go.