When Columbus Crew signed Lucas Zelarayan and Darlington Nagbe ahead of the 2020 Major League Soccer season, it became clear that the midfield trio formed by these two and Artur would be one of the team’s main assets in the upcoming season.
Several pundits and experts went beyond to indicate that the team’s success in 2020 would strongly depend on how well these three could play together. That theory proved true during the season with the Crew playing some of the best soccer in the league when Zelarayan, Nagbe and Artur were together on the field and seeing a significant drop of performance when the first two missed time due to injuries.