Seattle v. Colorado Sat. July 7 9pm MT P/I/P

OK, I've seen less pomp and ceremony at the start of the World Cup Final...

 

Man I wish we could draw crowd like that

 

Meh. The trade off is a game that feels further away. I'd much rather watch a game in the 18K Dick than the 60K+ CenturyLink.

 

Very true and I hate turf fields

 

An 18k Dick with 18k there for the kick off would be enough.

 

Damn straight.

 

Early going does not look good for the burgundy boys....

 

Wow, Wynne with a HORRIBLE square ball that Seattle ran onto, turned into a corner.

Corner cleared, Wynne off the hook.

 

What the hell JL, give up ball then just jog back?

Jaime smoked you getting back on D and he's playing forward

 

Pareja couldn't organize a good defense if he were allowed to erect a brick wall in front of goal.

 

Eddie Johnson gets free and is closed down just in time by Moor (Freeman?).

 

This could get real ugly going like this

 

I really hope Brian scores in this one -- stay classy Seattle.

 

15 minutes in, all one way traffic the wrong way. Seattle already has 4 corners and 3 shots on target, Colorado still looking for its first shot or corner.

 

Just love it when no one goes for goal on attack

 

You notice every time we try to attack we only have one or two people forward? What the hell are the other 8 guys doing?

Well...the FO did promise us exciting, attack oriented, play. They just never mentioned which team would actually be doing the attacking.

 

Well the Rapids aren't as penned in as in the start

 

I'm pretty sure the only players who know what they're doing are Pickens, Casey, and, surprisingly, Castrillon.

 

Casey's back and opposing defenders are falling down.

 

Back to the 4-4-2 then.

 

Rivero gets a decent shot off, finally.

 

Fernandez falls over in a stiff breeze and the AR falls for it. On of the assistants (Cabrera?) is not pleased with the call and the ref comes over to tell him to shut it.

 

They are calling it a 4-1-4-1

 

30 minutes in and Seattle is still dominating play but the Rapids are fighting back a bit.

 

The less terrible play since the first 15 minutes is encouraging.