Deep In The Heart Of Texas

Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas

The Rapids are escaping the winter storm and heading to Houston for tomorrow night's match.  The Dynamo are off to a rough start this season with only one win in the first 8 games and a -6 goal differential.  They are also having a bit of an injury crisis so this is about as good of a time to head to Space City as we could get.  Kickoff tomorrow is at 6:30pm on MLS Season Pass.

Availability Report:

OUT: Adam Beaudry (anhle0, M Ali Fadal (knee)

That's about as clean a report as we can get.  Barring a injury or red card to Steffen Beaudry was never going to play in this game and Fadal is too far down the depth chart to factor into this one anyway.  Obviously this afternoon's trade of Fernandez changes our winger depth a bit though.

Given the success against San Diego I expect Armas to stick with the same formation and largely the same lineup.  Also with Ted KDP just coming back this would give him another week to get to 90 minute (or close) readiness.  I'm not sure which of the three outside backs won't start, I just picked Vines as the one with less preseason time.

Prediction: 2-1 win, goals by Mihailovic and Cannon.  Houston's attack has been a struggle but bot team's defenses have been fairly similar.  I don't think either side gets a shutout but Colorado is the better team and will get the three points.