Somehow Colorado came away from Saturday's game thinking they showed great resilience by battling back for a point while also thinking they collapsed and threw two points away. In honor of that dichotomy we're going to do a Good/Bad game review:
The Good
- Colorado scored two goals for the first time this season
The Bad
- Colorado gave up two goals in 3 minutes in the second half
The Good
- Bassett returned to the starting XI after his hamstring injury
The Bad
- Bassett had to be subbed out after 30 minutes when he ran after a ball behind the charlotte defense and then immediately grabbed his hamstring and dropped to the ground
The Good
- Colorado's defense without their DP kept Charlotte from a dangerous shot in the first half
The Bad
- Colorado didn't have a dangerous shot of their own in the first half, again
The Good
- The Rapids took the lead, on the road!
The Bad
- They only did that for 11 minutes
The Good
- Nicholson did a great job of setting up the goal
The Bad
- Nicholson completely lost his man on defense, allowing him an almost free header for the 2nd Charlotte goal
The Good
- Max scored!
The Bad
- Max kept giving the ball away otherwise (but to be fair, Rubio, Yapi, and Nicholson had worse passing percentages)
The Good
- Abubakar made a good play to snuff out a Charlotte attack
The Bad
- The ball fell right to an unmarked attacker as half the team ball-watched and the other half played U10 "all run to the ball" soccer, making it easy for Charlotte to get their first goal
Ok, I'm tortured that format about as much I can at this point. In the end the Rapids went into a two game road trip feeling pretty bad and they're coming out with 4 points and being unbeaten in a month. There's still a long way to go before we can feel comfortable about the level of the club, but the second month of the season looks a lot better than the first month did (6 points in the last 4 games).
Man of the Match: Diego Rubio. Rewatching the goals I saw how good Rubio's pass was to free Nicholson on the first goal was. Yapi wins the ball in midfield, immediately gets pressure. Nicholson sees Yapi win the ball and starts sprinting right past him. Yapi feels the pressure and makes a short pass to Rubio on the sideline who smoothly one-times it through the last line of the defense and right into Nicholson's path, which set up the easy cross to Max for the goal. Then on the second goal its Rubio who hits the cross into Barrios' path that the Charlotte keeper completely bungled and left Barrios with an open net.
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