Rapids Trust(y) Lineup Changes to Galvan-ize Team To Victory

Ok, so I'm a bit late with this.  Lots going on this week.  Still, its nice to be late with a good writeup instead of a bad one.  Despite the losses of Vines and Lewis to the National team and the second game in 4 days, the Rapids easily handled Minnesota United on Wednesday night.  While Colorado conceded possession most of the night they never allowed Minnesota to get into a dangerous position, allowing only 2 shots on goal, both between the 40th minute and halftime.  The depleted Rapids lineup took its time but finally struck just before half and then doubled it near the end of the game.

Random Thoughts:

• Great seeing Galvan get the start and a goal.  He's going to push hard for playing time during the Gold Cup and given the lack of an obvious starter opposite Barrios he should get it.
• Shinyashiki's goal was comical in the setup.  Its not often you see a guy set up himself with an assist, but the attempted pass to Benezet was just a bit too far from him, but nobody from Minnesota followed the ball, so Andrew ran onto his own pass and finished it.  Really poor defensive work by United.
• It was an interesting 4-4-2/4-5-1 we played in.  Galvan played wing all night but on the other side Barrios spent a lot of time at second striker and not just wing.  That's a better adjustment than the 5-3-2 attempt.
• Acosta locked down midfield, especially in the absence of Captain Jack.  I'm not sure a midfield of Price and Bassett along with Mezquida or Warner will be able to compensate for his absence.  We need other positions to step up.
• Rubio drew a legitimate red card with his typical flopping.  I don't love it when a player dives, but in this case there was clearly a rabbit punch to the solar plexus in the scrum and Rubio was clearly not hurt by it, but also clearly realized he could draw a card and dropped like a sack of potatoes.  But a punch is a red, regardless of how much force is behind it.
• Best game this season from Abubakar.
• Meanwhile Benezet is not showing anything to make me believe he should get more playing time, or a new contract after the season.
• We go into this small international break at 4th place in the West, 5th place over all, and a PPG of 1.82.  In comparison our best ever season in 2016 finished at 1.71 PPG.
• The Bodmer Line is down to 1.04 PPG.  So essentially 1 win and drawing the rest of the games should get us into the playoffs.
• After the 10 day break we get San Jose and Dallas at home on Saturday and Wednesday, before heading to Sandy for our first Rocky Mountain Cup match of the season 3 days later.  7 points is a reasonable goal for that week, which would put us in great shape.

Man of the Match: Auston Trusty.  Asked to move to LB in Vines' absence he locked down the position and got into the attack.  I think he should play out there as long as the Gold Cup is going on.  That also allows us to get all 3 of our starting CB's on the field at the same time without having to use the 5-3-2 formation.