Nashville SC vs. Columbus Crew | Bicycle Kick Goal + Mukhtar's Drought Ends! | Full Match Highlights

Single game together in 2024, and rotation of the roster is a lot easier when you have multiple players who can play different spots within your system. You yell so much when you're home. You can be calm again today on the bench for Columbus. Both teams trying to bounce back from a loss from last week. It's Nashville SC hosting the Columbus crew at Geodes Park. His current teammates as well. This is a chance for Nashville. Wonderful ball from Uchtdorf. Positive first touch. Now the first quarter of this match for Mukhtar and Nashville. Floated into a dangerous area. And unable to be turned on goal. That was an opportunity for Jack Mayer. Rossi will serve for Columbus. All the way to the back post. Strong header. And in! Columbus grew up in the scoring. It's Sean Zawadzki. 1-0. And here I am waxing poetic about Nashville. And how good they are defending set pieces last year. To the back post. You've got some man marking. Some zone marking. But Jacob Schaffelberg on the back post. This is all about winning your mark. And Sean Zawadzki doing fantastic. Winning his individual battle. But then a textbook header back post. How about that start from Columbus. It was before that on the counter from Aiden Morris running into the gaps. That was really good team defending. Now Rossi for Columbus. From distance and over. Still looking for his first goal in MLS play this season. It is Jason Russell-Rowe getting a chance to leave the line. With Rossi and Zawadzki behind him. This is Zawadzki. Towards Aiden Morris. Oh, the clearance was fluffed. And then Russell-Rowe to Panico who spilled it. And gets back on it. With Nashville trailing 1-0. What a chance for Mukhtar. It's over the wall. And it's over the wall. But you're coaching players 1-28 up. You're improving every single player. Using the pathways available. Here is Schaffelberg. Isolated with parts. He gets the cross. And Schulte. Patrick Schulte and his ability to come off this line. And he's shown it very well tonight. Except here. But there are 30,000 in this building. That could give a rat's you-know-what. That Patrick Schulte misjudges this. Because the three-time MLS Best XI player. Gets his first in 2024. And a big one it is. Hani Mukhtar. Welcome. It's 1-1. Gary Smith told us he needs just... Here's Mukhtar for Nashville. The final moments of the half. Puts him in an offside position. In my opinion the answer is no. But when this ball is delivered. Sam Serge is off. But because he allows it to play through. You allow play on. And Gary Smith wanted a reaction. He wanted to find out. Does this team have the integrity. To build off. And forget. About the worst result. In club history last week. Adai says. Get on my bicycle. Let's go for a ride. It's 2-1. He's bringing on Marino Henestrosa. For Sean Zawadzki. Zawadzki was Columbus' goal scorer. With how that game unfolded. So I think Wilker Nancy is going to ask this team. To be a little bit more direct going forward. They played those vertical balls over the top. Caused issues. Uh-oh. Rossi is in. He goes down. John Freeman thought about it. Did not give the penalty. I don't think there's any dispute. I think this will take about three seconds. I suppose the only question is. Is that inside or outside of the box. Well it's on top of the white line for sure. In my opinion. John Freeman has seen it. The decision is a penalty. For the Columbus crew. Most likely a yellow card given as well. Versus Panico. Who's a big penalty specialist. In goal for Nashville. Rossi has the ball. Nice. Columbus to tie the game. Panico was off his line. When the ball was struck by Diego Rossi. I don't think he was. I think the right foot was there. We saw this throughout all of League's Cup last year. That all of a sudden started a conversation. Should Panico be the starting goalkeeper? He changed the formations. Said I'm going to play three center backs. You're going to have to go around us. Not through us. Here is Yeboah for Columbus. Darling to Nagby. Nagby curling at Panico. Back naturally. Playing at left center back tonight. This is behind. For Surge. Morris defending. Mukhtar in the middle. Surge goes down. Safe. To keep this 2-1. Big ball. Mukhtar will leave it for Schaffelberg. Schaffelberg towards Mukhtar. It's good. Well he scored maybe the most difficult goal of his career. In first half stoppage time. Farsi. To Morris. To Nagby. Columbus trying to find a way through. For an equalizing goal. Yeboah. Getting around Weil. Flipping it back post. And he drills it. Nashville. Two-time textbook header. The technique. The touch. Wow. What a goal that is. Morris getting it down. But it's right in the back of Mukhtar. Mukhtar from the stepovers. Still on it. Mukhtar. Getting in the shot away. It's deflected. And it's held by Schulte. Nashville SC. And Columbus Crew sharing the points. Two to two. The final. Marno and Estrosa. Scoring the equalizing goal. For the Columbus Crew. His first goal in Columbus. His first in MLS.