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A Ton of Numbers. Sorry.
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There are games, and then there are big games. Sunday, the Rapids have big game. There are two (maybe three) Western Conference powers this year and they meet Sunday at Dick’s.
Let’s look at the numbers: Dallas is a very average club. Their goal scoring average is 0.05 under the league average [...]
LA Galaxy 0-1 Colorado Rapids
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This might be a bit much to infer from a game followed through a match tracker and audio stream, but here goes: I think the Open Cup game revealed a bit of sophistication that MLS has managed to develop in just 13 years.
Here’s why: how do you build a good soccer club? No [...]
Category: Team NewsOpen Cup Qualifying Starts Today
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The Rapids start their Open Cup season on Tuesday with a game against the Gals at the Home Depot Center. I kind of hope the team fields a semi-serious squad. LA is missing Donovan and Beckham due to the USA vs. England match on Wednesday (on a side note: I’m kind of glad [...]
Colorado Rapids 1-2 Chivas USA
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Colorado Rapids 1-2 Chivas USA
The Bad News: The Rapids played sloppy soccer versus the goats. As Pablo aptly said at halftime, they “couldn’t make a pass to save their life”. They tried their normal attack strategy, but opportunities don’t develop if you can’t make passes. The only shots on goal the Rapids [...]
The Goats are Coming
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Chivas USA is not a bad club. At least they’re not a bad club like Houston and San Jose are bad clubs. They are superbly average. When Chicago’s or even Houston’s midfield is setting up an attack, I get nervous, but not so with Chivas USA. That is, with one exception: Kljestan. That kid [...]
Rapids’ Depth Gets Deeper at Keeper
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The big problem down the road for the Rapids: their keeper is too darn good. Bouna is going to Senegal to help his country qualify for the World Cup. This was bound to happen, as Bouna got his first cap last summer in the African Cup of Nations and Senegal’s manager was impressed [...]
Colorado Rapids 2-0 Real Salt Lake
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Throw all the trash you like, Salt Lakers. The Rocky Mountain Cup is coming back to Colorado.
Let me start by offering a formal apology for predicting yesterday that Salt Lake would score a goal. That was shameful and, in retrospect, I don’t know what I was thinking. I will put forth great [...]
Category: Christian Gomez, Colin Clark, Colorado Rapids, Facundo Erpen, Game Recap, Kosuke Kimura, Losers, Match ResultsRocky Mountain Cup Game 1
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First of all, All-Star voting just started. I just put in my votes which featured a midfield consisting of the Rapids’ midfield and David Beckham. Let’s hope he can keep up with them.
And now, on to the real fun: The Rocky Mountain Cup. This should be another exciting year in Real underperformance. [...]
Houston Dynamo 2-1 Colorado Rapids
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If you had told me before the game that a Rapids player would make a game losing error, literally the last person I would have guessed would have been Ugo Ihemelu.
Other then the Ugo error, the Rapids continued pretty much every trend from their past few games. They played good defense (exceptional in the [...]
Careful Rapids, They Used to be The Houston Dynamo
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”We tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.”
-Neil Armstrong
The San Jose game comes to mind. Let’s just hope that this weekend isn’t a repeat of that game. The Earthquakes the Rapids played are very similar to Houston: poor scoring and [...]
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