Who: Colorado Rapids v. Houston Dynamo When: Saturday, July 14 @ 8:00 pm CDT Where: Dick's Sporting Goods Park; Commerce City, CO Records: Colorado Rapids (4-11-3), 11th in West Houston Dynamo (7-6-4), 7th in West TV: KUBE-57 Radio: 610 am, 1010 am (Spanish) This is the 18th regular season game of the year for Houston and the 19th for Colorado. The two teams met earlier in the year on June 9 with Houston winning 2-0 at home. The last time the Dynamo went to Colorado was a 3-1 win for the Rapids on 7/1/17. Houston has not won at Colorado in the last 8 tries going back to 2009. Colorado's most recent game was a road loss, 2-1, at Montreal on July 7. Colorado is 2-2-1 in their last five league games scoring 8 goals and allowing 8. The Rapids are 3-5-2 in home league games so far this year. They next travel to RSL on Saturday, July 21. The Dynamo are now 2-2-1 in the last five league games scoring 9 goals and allowing 6. Houston is 1-4-3 so far in road league games this year. The Dynamo next return home for three straight games: Kansas City in the USOC on Wednesday, July 18; Dallas on Saturday, July 21; and Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 25.
Dynamo @ Colorado, all-time: 04/29/06 COR 0-1 HOU 07/26/06 COR 1-0 HOU 05/05/07 COR 1-3 HOU 08/11/07 COR 1-0 HOU 06/21/08 COR 0-0 HOU 10/04/08 COR 1-3 HOU 08/30/09 COR 1-0 HOU 08/28/10 COR 3-0 HOU 07/03/11 COR 0-0 HOU 10/27/12 COR 2-0 HOU 06/01/14 COR 3-0 HOU 08/26/15 COR 2-1 HOU 10/23/16 COR 1-1 HOU 07/01/17 COR 3-1 HOU That's 3-8-3 overall with 10 goals scored and 19 allowed.
Match preview: https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2018-07-14-colorado-rapids-vs-houston-dynamo/preview COLORADO Suspended: None Suspended after next caution: M - Johan Blomberg International duty: None Injury Report: QUESTIONABLE: D - Marlon Hairston (undisclosed injury) Projected Starting XI (3-4-2-1, right to left) GK: Tim Howard — Kortne Ford, Axel Sjoberg, Tommy Smith — Johan Blomberg, Jack Price, Danny Wilson, Deklan Wynne — Shkelzen Gashi, Sam Nicholson — Dominique Badji HOUSTON Suspended: None Suspended after next caution: M - Tomas Martinez, F - Alberth Elis International duty: None Injury Report: OUT: D - A.J. DeLaGarza (torn left ACL), M - Juan David Cabezas (left quad injury), F - Mac Steeves (left hip injury), M/D - Andrew Wenger (left calf injury), M - Arturo Alvarez (right hip injury) Projected Starting XI (4-3-3, right to left) GK: Joe Willis — Adolfo Machado, Alejandro Fuenmayor, Philippe Senderos, DaMarcus Beasley — Eric Alexander, Darwin Ceren, Tomas Martinez — Alberth Elis, Mauro Manotas, Romell Quioto OFFICIALS Referee: Ted Unkel Assistant Referees: Kyle Atkins, Jose Da Silva 4th Official: Daniel Radford VAR: Edvin Jurisevic
Weather forecast for Commerce City, CO tonight: 7 pm MDT 92F 18% humidity wind 9 mph E Partly Cloudy 0% chance of rain Temps will fall into the 80s during the game. The humidity will increase slightly and it will get more cloudy. Local sunset is at 8:28 pm.
Alexander has been laboring since the 25th minute He is so slow and getting exposed in all this spacious field Opposing players are just running by him into our defensive third He has to be subbed by Ceren Cabrera what are you doing?
Once again the key sub Ceren should have been for Alexander NOT Martinez Gil was not good - he can’t bring the ball forward at all because he just loses possession so he then just starts going to the back pass. Martinez is not a real baller - MEMO is tho By the time Cabrera subs Martinez off and moves Memo into the #10 spot he’s too exhausted to make a penetration on his own. No Bradley Senderos Cabezas Wenger so maybe they will be available for wed against KC in open cup. I thought Lundqvist was very good in place of Beaseley on the left. Willis played a decent game. Memo was our best player today!
Just curious what they're thinking when they look at the schedule and say, hmmmm, I am going to blow off points against a flailing Colorado team coming off two losses including one at home, send out reserves in a 451, play for a tie, and instead set myself up for USOC, where we have never won, where we immediately play a team 7 points ahead of us in the table, and where if we win we face the winner of 2 more teams above us in the table where we have a tie and a loss so far. I realize that sounds defeatist, but we have game(s) in hand and can probably get up to 6th with some results. We are not winning USOC. Teams that play to win USOC are usually so far above or below the red line they have nothing to lose. I think we need to be a steady playoff entrant for the good of the franchise. Looking at our schedule I'd run out the starters on weekends and the kids midweeks over this stretch. To me USOC, unless you are pinned to table bottom, is you send out the kids and whatever happens, happens, til perhaps the semis. The tepid nature of our first half effort yesterday is a Jordan thing, "this is what our reserves look like." Once the subs came in we were more interesting but isn't that the point to sitting the starters and what's likely to happen.