2023 Crew season preview: Central midfielders

The start of the 2023 Major League Soccer season is just under a week away. As we head to the new year, Massive Report takes a look at the Columbus Crew’s position groups as they currently stand and break down what we expect from those positions in the coming season. Here are the midfielders.

In Wilfried Nacy’s first season as manager, while the names are very much the same, things should look a little different for the Columbus Crew’s central midfielders. If the former CF Montreal manager keeps the same 3-5-2 lineup he employed over the last two years, the Crew will need two competent midfielders to sit behind the main attacking line and connect play through the defenders up to the…