Nashville wanted a win; Colorado needed to win. Nashville’s wish came true, while Colorado’s dream of moving closer to winning an October playoff berth remains in limbo.
In their second game of three during a week-long road trip, the Colorado Rapids saw a very winnable game fade away in the second half of the tense and muggy mid-America match.
At the close of the first half, they were all knotted up with the Coyotes, 1-1, and Rapids fans waited with bated breath for the second half to commence.
Before you could spell Tennessee, the Burgundy Boys resorted to their Hara-Kari pattern of self-inflicting stabs to their match-day play, made mistakes that led to easy goals against, then had to watch, in point-blank frustration, as an amateur field judge made call-after-call that favored Nashville, and none of the most egregious on Colorado’s behalf.