Nick Lima’s 59th-minute screamer was the difference as the Colorado Rapids Soccer Club dropped a hard-fought 1-0 contest against the San Jose Earthquakes at Avaya Stadium.
After earning their first road point of the season in a 1-1 draw at Toronto FC last weekend, Rapids head coach Pablo Mastroeni would only make one change to the starting lineup, replacing Kortne Ford with Jared Watts in the backline.
The Rapids looked the better of the two sides in the first 45 minutes, with the first chance of the match coming at the 25th-minute mark when defender Axel Sjöberg’s header would be saved off the line by Quakes keeper David Bingham.