The Columbus Crew went with a heavily rotated lineup in the midweek U.S. Open Cup match against Detroit City FC. With a focus on the Major League Soccer regular season, the Crew only brought Derrick Etienne Jr., Gyasi Zardes, Miguel Berry, and Yaw Yeboah as the only players who have started a match this season to Keyworth Stadium. Etienne, Berry and Yeboah all came off the bench as second half substitutions. This did not work, however, as the Black & Gold fell 2-1.
In MLS play, Columbus has failed to score a goal this month and head coach Caleb Porter made the decision to rest many of his regular starters on Tuesday in an attempt to keep them focused on the weekend match against Sporting Kansas City.