Defense, restarts, and set pieces. The Rapids did the job, stopping Piatti (with fouls) and Drogba (mmm, sort of.) Backpass has your week eight rewind from MLS' only French speaking enclave. Oui.
I'll be honest. This was not my kind of game. I like well-formed build-up play, sharp tiki-taka passing, long runs, spectacular dribbling, and end-to-end action. This game had none of those things. Also, I watch half of it in under the soul-sucking fluorescent lights of the Tel Aviv airport waiting area before getting crammed into the uncomfortable seats of a fourteen hour trans-atlantic flight, and I had already watched both of the decent movies available to me.