New York City vs Columbus player ratings

Things started perfectly for New York City FC in Columbus but ended in disappointment, a shootout loss following a 1-1 draw ending the Leagues Cup run at the Quarterfinals.

Early Goal, Late Misses: NYCFC fall to Columbus in penalties

NYCFC didn’t hold the lead, allowing an always-dangerous Columbus Crew to draw the match and win the shootout after. What are the lessons learned from New York City’s Leagues Cup Quarterfinals loss?

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For a moment, when Alonso Martínez pressed the Crew into a mistake and scored inside 15 seconds for the fastest goal in both NYCFC and Leagues Cup history (albeit a "history" of one tournament for Leagues Cup), it looked as though New York City might be turning into upset specialists ready to play a Semifinal for a chance to, at minimum, guarantee a spot in the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup.

Instead, Columbus took control and the New York City attack disappeared, with a Cucho Hernández equalizer preceding a Crew win in the shootout.

Elimination is never fun, though your ratings from the loss at Lower.com Field don't reflect the extreme level of disappointment that was evident after, say, the meltdown in Cincinnati to close out the group stage.

Your latest ratings reflect an acknowledgment of the valuable defensive work done by a few members of the spine of New York City's lineup to get this match to penalties, while they also ding the ineffective non-Alonso Martínez members of the team's attacking front, who didn't threaten Columbus much outside of that opening goal.

Read on for the ratings in full, some discussion of the goal-scoring Player of the Match, and a rundown of how the whole New York City FC squad was rated by you over the course of this five-match march to the Leagues Cup Quarterfinals.

Note: FotMob ratings are in parentheses.