Anything can happen in a cup match. A winner-goes-on, loser-goes-home game is potentially fraught for the favorites like the Colorado Rapids. Wednesday, they faced a hungry bunch of underdogs in USL expansion club New Mexico United. In this match, the Rapids were playing just another match in between more prestigious MLS fixtures, with a mixed roster of tired veterans and inexperienced youngsters. New Mexico, on the other hand, was playing the most important match in the clubs history — its first meaningful game against a first division opponent.
In these players heads, this was every underdog comeback movie come to life, and at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.