DC United 3-0 Colorado Rapids

When you talk about the Rapids’ defense, you don’t always call them great, but you usually don’t call them sloppy. The goals themselves, particularly the first two, were pretty incredible, and it’s hard to fault them for not stopping those, but they just allowed way too many chances for DC. DC had 15 shots. There’s no way that will turn out well. Your opponent is probably going to make one in five of their shots. In fact, Preston was really the only reason the score wasn’t higher against Colorado, making four pretty remarkable saves.

The fact that this slump (I guess it’s a slump, although we are 2-3 in our last five games) isn’t killing our playoff chances is really just a testament to Western inadequacy this year, but we’ll take what we can get. It’s almost certain, though, that the west will only send three teams to the playoffs this year, so we really need to break into the top three, for which we would only need to gain two points. This brings us to this Friday’s match.

Next Friday, the Rapids play Salt Lake at Rice-Eccles. In my experience there’s nothing better for Rapids frustration than beating Salt Lake on the road. A win would accomplish three things.

1) It would almost certainly put the Rapids back in a playoff spot.
2) The Rapids would take back the Rocky Mountain Cup and we can pretend last year never happened.
3) Since Salt Lake is on its way out of Rice Eccles pretty soon there, a win would be a large contributor to Rice Eccles stadium’s status as a monument to Real Salt Lake failure. It would not affect Rice Eccles’s status as a monument to Mountain West Football failure, but that’s pretty much shored up anyway (as we reach the fall, you can start to expect several football jokes here and there. Sorry to any non-Americans).

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