Dallas 2-2 Colorado Rapids
By: Kyle | July 21st, 2008Man, what a week: Great league games, SuperLiga, the All-Star game, and the U-23 – Senior Team match on Wednesday. The Rapids in fourth place isn’t quite as nice as I would like it to be going into the unofficial halfway point of the season, but at only three points back, it’s about the comfiest fourth place there can be (three points back from Salt Lake: even more inspiring).
As for the game itself, the first half went to the Rapids, the second to Dallas. I have an inclination to start a “was it / wasn’t it” penalty argument, but I don’t really have the energy. Let’s just say that Oduro was exaggerating, but Facundo should have known better than to use his elbows like that in the box.
On the bright side, it’s always nice to see the Rapids scoring early, and they are still undefeated when they do it first. That’s not to say that I’m worried that they don’t always score quickly. It’s just not their style. They score plenty of goals; they just do it by tiring out their opponent a bit. But I’ll never complain about a fifth minuter either.
Bouna looked even better than usual, too. He had a few stops that single-handedly saved the tie.
All-in-all, we had two road games and two ties, which is average, plenty goad enough to get back into playoff contention in the West. Now, the Rapids have a three game home stand (vs. Columbus, Toronto, and Kansas City), which means we need wins, lots of ‘em. After the All-Star break, this stretch is the best shot at climbing up the table significantly they have for the rest of the season, so their return to peak form should probably start here.
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“Bouna looked even better than usual, too. He had a few stops that single-handedly saved the tie.”
wow, i think you’re way off here. Bouna was caught way out of position many times instead of showing patience and trust in his defense. the only reason Dallas had a chance of getting a PK was because Bouna was running around outside the edge of the box and Erpen had to cover the goal for him. Bouna had some incredible stops, but you can’t ignore his positioning.
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Yeah, good point there. I really should have mentioned that. The PK was really his fault. That error was very uncharacteristic of him (Although that’s really the only positioning error I can think of).
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