As goes the leader, so goes the country.

In the case of New York City FC, that notion is best amended to: As go Alonso Martínez and Hannes Wolf, so goes the club. Martínez and Wolf accounted for 28 of NYCFC’s 56 total goals in the regular season, and the pair will be instrumental to any run the team makes in this year’s MLS Cup playoffs, which kick off Tuesday as City faces Charlotte FC in Game 1 of their best-of-three, first-round series.

That also means that the current offensive drought can’t be overlooked, either, with NYCFC scoring four goals — three coming in a Sept. 27 win over the Red Bulls — over their final four matches of the regular season.

Martínez, who has scored 17 goals this year, has not found the back of the net in his last three appearances, and Wolf has not scored si

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