Glass Half Full or Glass Half Empty?

This is a game where you can take positives or negatives away, depending on your point of view.

Positive: Rapids battle back from a deficit against the best team in the league to get a draw

Negative: Rapids allowed a goal on the only on target shot they faced

Positive: Rapids outplayed the best team in the league

Negative: Despite outplaying them, they couldn't finish and only got a draw

Positive: No Price and still got a point

Negative: There's a lot of money on this roster (Namli, Price, Benezet) that wasn't starting last night

etc., etc., etc.

In the end I take more positives out of this match than negatives.  After a mess in SKC the Rapids looked like they belonged in a match against a top team.  Fraser learned that his experiment with the 5-3-2 wasn't working and put our best possible lineup out there in a formation that worked for them.  A 1-1 draw is what I predicted if that happened, and its what we earned.

Last night's game does show the need for a #9.  A better striker and we could have won that game with the number of opportunities we got.  None of them were clear cut chances (and Seattle never got one either) which is why you need a top-tier striker to finish those half chances.  We don't have somebody we can rely on to do that.

I have to admit that watching this on delay, after accidentally seeing the score, meant I didn't pay as much attention as I usually do.  So take my opinions in this write-up with a grain of salt.

Man of  the Match: Pablo Mastroeni.  One last MotM in honor of his jersey retirement.