Rapids Try Again In LA

As expected last Sunday's game against LAFC was shifted to tomorrow night due to the hurricane.  Before we get to that though, there was some unfortunate news out of Commerce City today.  Yet another injury has felled a top player, with William Yarbrough undergoing knee surgery that will him out for 6-8 weeks.  The optimistic side of that would have him coming back for the last 2-3 games of the season, the pessimistic means he's pretty much done for the year (even at 8 weeks he could theoretically play the season finale, but I don't know that you put him back in for one game at that point).  The Rapids have ha team option on Yarbrough for 2024, but with the recent signing of Ilic the general belief is that they were already planning on moving on in the offseason.  There's a decent chance we've seen Yarbrough play his final game in burgundy.

Also, we're going to have to have a significant talk about the Rapids training methods in the offseason, because all we're getting out of them is a bad team with too many injuries.

On to tomorrow night then, and a well rested LAFC team.  They've only had 10 days off, while Colorado hasn't kicked a ball in anger in 23 days.  Kickoff in LA tomorrow is at 8:30pm.  Good news is that Marcelo Balboa will be on the call in Spanish.

Availability Report:

OUT: GK William Yarbrough (knee surgery), D Alex Gersbach (tendon surgery), MAx (removed from team activities)

QUESTIONABLE: D Michael Edwards (lower body injury), M Cole Bassett (lower body injury), M Jonathan Lewis (lower body injury)

Bassett was listed as out yesterday, so that's an improvement, but I don't know how e keep getting people injured in training.  Its ridiculous at this point.

I really don't know what to expect.  Between the injuries and the changes at the close of the window we could see any number of lineups.  I'll be very disappointed if Navarro and Tavares don't start though.  With 3 weeks since the window closed there's really no excuse for them not to be ready.

Prediction: 2-1 loss, goal by Navarro.  The date may have changed, but not my expectation.  LAFC is going to be at home and hungry to put their meltdown in the Leagues Cup behind them.  We just want to put this whole season behind us.