We're not going to spend much time on this one. The Rapids laid a huge egg in SAn Diego, which seems typical for them this season. They get on a small run at home, things start going the right way, then a road trip and bam, everything falls apart. In this case it WAs Rob Holding who had the worst game from a Rapids defender in many, many years. Directly or partially responsible for all three goals scored against us, including another mishandled backpass. That's becoming a serious concern in a system where Wells encourages playing it around the back.
The offense wasn't any better as the manager reverted to his preferred 4-5-1 formation with Sealy and Minoungou on the wings, with predictably bad results. Sealy was noticeably a hole where attacks went to die. The Rapids spent $3.9 million in GAM on the two wingers and they've been severely disappointing this season. They would have been better off spending $4M on a new scoreboard. There's 9 days left in the transfer window and we need attacking reinforcements.
There's only one thing to do after this, pick ourselves up and win the Rocky Mountain Cup at home on Saturday. The silver lining is that nobody picked up a yellow card that got them suspended for the match. But they need to put this game behind them and move on ASAP.
Man of the Match: Nico Hansen. Not at fault for any of the goals and came up with a couple of saves to keep it from getting worse.
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