It was hard to watch Colorado play decent soccer at home on Saturday night, only to fumble around and ultimately blow it. There were several encouraging signs from the Rapids, like:
- Badji got into dangerous scoring spots on several occasions.
- The back line made no significant errors and contained Luciano Acosta and crew well.
- Nana Boateng made a couple of nice plays on the ball.
- Steve Cooke, in his head coaching debut, rolled out a 4-3-3 and generally pushed between 5 and 7 players into the attack, generally leaving behind only Azira and two or three defenders.