Fraser River entering the Salish Sea at Vancouver
Rapids and Whitecaps, two forms of disturbed water. Tomorrow night we'll see which can dry up the other as two teams fighting for their playoff hopes face off in British Columbia. The Rapids go north in a weakened state, missing multiple players and their equipment manager after a late red card on Saturday night. Kickoff is at 8pm tomorrow, and we're down to single-digit games left on the Altitude blackout with only 9 to go.
Injury Report:
OUT: M Ollie Larraz, M Jack Price, F Yaya Toure
Disciplinary Report:
SUSPENDED: D Lucas Esteves, M Bryan Acosta
ONE CAUTION FROM SUSPENSION: D Lalas Abubakar
There's an unconfirmed report that it was the worst case for Toure after his knee buckled on Saturday night, his ACL. We'll see if its confirmed but if so, that would obviously end his season. Jack Price was downgraded from Questionable to Out, so that's not great to see.
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Its always tough to predict the lineup of the second game in a three game week, especially when its on the road. Given the importance of this one though I think Fraser will worry less about rest than he may have earlier in the season. I can't see the backline being much different than last week other than the necessary Beitashour/Esteves swap, and Zardes is almost certain to start up top. Its really the midfield that could go any number of ways. This assumes that Fraser doesn't try to reintroduce the 5-man back line of course.
Prediction: 1-1 draw goal by Rubio. Essentially I have to choose Rubio as a goal-scorer at this point. Barring injury or a real cold streak he's almost certainly going to put up the best offensive season in team history. As far as the overall game, Colorado is a better team than Vancouver. But we're missing some critical pieces and we're on the road. Plus we haven't shown a real ability to stay focused defensively for 90 minutes. Given all that the best I can see us doing is a draw. A loss would put any playoff hopes on life support.
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