Belated Review Of Rapids Being Shown Their Spot In the League

Sorry for the delay on this recap, rough couple of days here but moving in the right direction.  Much the same can be said about the Rapids this week, a rough game in Cincinnati (and a rough trip home) but overall the team is moving in the right direction.  In my preview I predicted a 1 goal loss (admittedly I said 1-0 and not 2-1) and that FCC would clearly be the better team but the Rapids wouldn't be played off the field, and that's essentially what happened.

On both of Cinci's goals they pulled an our defense apart and made passes that the Rapids are unable to accomplish with any regularity.  On the first Bassett failed to notice that the home side overloaded our right side and there were four attackers being covered by Bombito, Rosenberry, and Larraz.  The imbalance led to Bombito being forced to decide to step up to pressure the ball or stick with his man.  He chose to step up and the attacker released the ball behind him to the now unmarked attacker.

On the second goal Bombito needed to have a bit more trust in his teammates.  Larraz was beat but was close enough to still hassle the man with the ball but Bombito stepped up to help and again the attacker beat him with a pass.  Now a lot of MLS teams wouldn't be able to pull off those passes, but when you have a top 10 (top 5?) player like Acosta pulling the strings you're going to get burned.

I know I called Bombito out a lot there, but he wasn't as bad as he sounded.  On the first goal he was left stranded with no good decision.  On the second he did make a mistake but he owned up to it post-game, and again he got very little help.  He also made up for it by scoring a nice header to get back into the match.

In the end though, what really bit us is that we had 2, just 2, shots on goal.  Once again our inability to turn possession, even good attacking possession, into actual shots is our Achilles heel.