The wit and wisdom of Jayne Cobb, paraphrased. Last night the Rapids looked exactly like they did at the end of last season, toothless in attack. 90 minutes, 0 shots on goal. The rest of the team was adequate enough, only getting beat 1-0 on a late free kick that got past Yarbrough because of a deflection off Bryan Acosta's back. There were 1-2 other good looks for Comunicaciones, but only one that was really dangerous, an early corner kick that Yarbrough made a blind save on. Hard to complain about a loss when you don't have any sort of attack though. The lack of a striker signing this offseason is looking like a bigger failure by the day.
This means the Rapids need to win by 2 next week, or keep it to 1-0 and go to Kicks From The Mark. A 1 goal win where Comunicaciones scores means they'll go through on away goals. Important note, there is no extra time next week. If the game is 1-0 Colorado after 90 minutes we go straight to kicks, there is no extra 30 minutes played.
Random Thoughts:
- Colorado really struggled to adjust to the heavy field. Passes were dying about 75% of their way to the target all night
- Starting Warner over Barrios left us with 7 defenders and 3 attackers, and that gulf between midfield and the attacking third was huge. We could not cross that divide without going outside, which made defending us far too easy
- We looked like we still had a lot of rust on us. Any chance we could arrange a scrimmage this weekend against the Switchbacks to knock some of it off before Wednesday?
- The bad part about this result (well, besides the loss itself) is that Comunicaciones can now just park the bus here in Colorado on Wednesday. As we saw last year that's the best way to control the Rapids at home
- Jack Price struggled with his (limited) free kicks last night. Hopefully that's just some of that rust
- The guys didn't seem to have stamina issues at least, they just couldn't generate offense
- Lewis had a rough game. For a guy Fraser talked about last week as a good option at 9 he sure wasn't showing that in this game
Man of the Match: Max. He only played 10 minutes but had our best chance of the night. A flash of what we're hoping to see long-term.
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Are you sure about the overtime? In the game recap, on the MLS website, they mention "extra time and possibly penalties".
https://www.concacaf.com/champions-league/regulations/
12.7 contains the tiebreaking rules for the round of 16, quarters, and semifinals. It states that if the teams are tied after the second regulation time away goals will be used to break the ties. If there's still a tie the teams proceed to KFTM.
128. contains the tiebreaking rules for the final. It states that if the teams are tied after the second regulation time away goals will not be used and the teams will proceed to two extra 15-minute periods. If the teams are still tied after that they go to KFTM.
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