Game: FC Dallas vs Colorado Rapids Date: Wednesday, September 16th Time: 7:30 pm [Local] | 00:30 [Universal] Location: Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas, United States of America Weather Forecast: Partly Cloudy; H 85, L 67 Competition: Major League Soccer Live TV: Fox Sports Southwest Plus [DFW] | KCPN-4.2 [Amarillo] | KMYL-22.2 [Lubbock] | KTPN-48 [Tyler] | Altitude [Colorado] | ESPN+ [USA] | DAZN [Canada] Radio: FCDallas.com/radio [English] | 1270 AM [Spanish]
First 15 minutes looked rough, but Dallas has owned the run of play ever since. Currently the 67th minute, and even having just scored, Colorado doesn't look truly dangerous. I'm going to risk it and go to sleep. There's a hurricane here right now and I've got work in the morning.
Well, that was fun. Crapids looked a little gassed, not a ton of energy, and FCD did exactly what you should do to a team like that. Fun game to watch. Mosquera, wow. I cringed a little when I saw him in the XI. My sneaker tastes GOOD. Still some issues when he had the ball during the run of play, but boy o' boy did he ever light up the frame. Barrios looked dangerous again. Jara seems to look for him exclusively after he holds the ball up top, might be a trust thing. Jara is linking better, but man he is slow. The through ball from Tessman perfect, anyone else gets there. Great header on the goal. His three goals for FCD are all perfect examples of a top class goal scorer. Tessman might have had the best game I've seen him play. Super confident last night and it seems he and Santos have figured out how to balance each other. This center mid trio looked great (Ricaurte/Santos/Tessman). Game time will probably only make them better together. Tough goal against Zobeck, I think he has that one if it doesn't skip off Reto's arse. Servenia looked like a man possessed when he came in and never stopped (~20 mins, i get it). There's a log jam building up here, which is good with schedule congestion. Reynolds dropped a tick, but just a small tick. His first touch didn't seem to have the best concentration. I think we'll all let that slide . Ho-head was great on the opposite side, really added to the attack.
I couldn't find the New Player Acquistions thread so I'll put this here. We acquired a new player and started him last night - Good Santiago Mosquera. Good luck to our new guy and hope he continues his goal scoring, taking on defenders, cleverly dribbling out of trouble, tracking back, ball winning, etc.
Messrs. Followill and Davis were commenting after his first goal that he was playing with so much more confidence than we'd seen from him for most of his time in Frisco. I wonder how much that can be traced to playing with Ricaurte because we're seeing Barrios rounding into form once again as well. On the other hand, Followill and Davis were also suggesting that Fafà Picault's strong play also might be pushing Mosquera as well.