And So It Begins

Well with CCL sadly out of the way its on to the regular season.  First up, a trip out to LAFC in LA-LA land.  If you remember we ended the season by beating them 5-2 at home, but they seem to be everybody's trendy pick for this season, getting the best odds to win MLS Cup.  And of course, they now have Kellyn Acosta who seems to have a (ridiculous) chip on his shoulder about the Rapids.  Needles to say people aren't giving us much of a chance in this one.  Kickoff tomorrow is at 1:30pm because the match us in Univision and TDUN (and in English on Twitter).  So we can all watch it!  That's the good news, as Altitude announced this week that they'll be carrying 31 of the 34 regular season matches.  thier dispute with Comcast is still not resolved.

Injury Report:

OUT: D Aboubacar Keita, M Briain Galvan*

* - I'm listing Galvan for this first game, but as we known he's gone for the season so I'm not going ton list him again unless/until his status changes

So other than Keita we have everyone we expected for this one.  That includes first round draft pick defender Anthony Markanich, who's agent announced today that he had signed with the Rapids.  Still waiting for the official word from the team.

Its a tight turnaround after the CCL match on Wednesday, a match that probably took a bit out of the team in cold weather.  Despite that I think Fraser asked the back line to go another 90 as its early in the season and we have a week off after this.  Plus its not like they had to do much defending on Wednesday.  I expect we'll see rotation in the attack, with none of the starters from Wednesday starting this one.

Prediction: 1-0 loss.  Sadly, despite having a couple games under our belt unlike LAFC, I don't think this is going to go well.  We're going to be tired after our CCL match and lets face it, there are questions about our offense.  I think we keep the game close but never look like we're going to take a result home with us.