The Columbus Crew enters the 2022 Major League Soccer season feeling as though this group has something to prove. Coming off a dominating MLS Cup playoff run in 2020, punctuated by a 3-0 stomping of the Seattle Sounders in the MLS Cup Final, no fan or pundit anticipated the Crew failing to qualify for the playoffs in 2021. However, due to poor play, losing players to international duty and a myriad of injuries, Columbus failed to make the postseason.
That season has come and gone and 2022 is here, the moment all Crew fans have been waiting for.