Rapids Play For 45 Minutes, Win 3-2

Colorado started the game apparently thinking this was a scrimmage.  Despite the Rapids dominating possession it was Oklahoma City that had the dangerous chances in the first half and the Energy took advantage, going into the locker rooms with a 2-0 lead after shoddy defending.

I'm not sure what Pablo said to the team at half but in the second the Rapids looked like a MLS team playing a USL team.  Goals from Badji, Miller, and Castillo, the last just two minutes from full time, got Colorado through to the 5th Round.

• This was the first time the Rapids scored 3 second half goals since 2012!
• Good to see Serna playing,, but I don't think left back is his spot.  We need to be using him as a super sub in the midfield.
• Powers.  *sigh*
• Badji apparently forgot the offside rule last night,
• Or maybe he just figured that since the AR on the near side was getting it wrong often he'd take his chances.
• 2 female refs on the game, I think that's the first time we've seen that at DSG for a Rapids game.
• The Rapids will learn their 5th round opponent tomorrow.  The 16 remaining teams will be separated into regional pods of 4 teams and draw against another team in their pod, winner of that game will play against the winner of the other game in the pod in the quarter-finals..  Tomorrow the pods will be drawn against each other for the semifinal round as well so we'll know our exact bracket to the final.
• My guess is that there will be a West Coast pod of Seattle, the Sacramento/FSL winner, the San Jose.San Francisco winner and the LA/Orange County winner.  That will leave us in a group with teams like Dallas, KC, and either the Chicago/St. Louis winner or Houston if they beat North Carolina.  Maybe Cincinnati depending if they try to make the break East-West or North-South.

Man of the Match: Dennis Castillo, easy.  An assist and the game winning goal (his first as a Rapid).