Ahead of this Saturday’s trip to Columbus Crew SC (5:30 p.m MT - Altitude), here are 10 things that you may, or may not, have known.
- Saturday’s match between Columbus Crew SC and the Colorado Rapids will come almost 20 years to the day since the teams first met in MLS, on May 19, 1996 at Ohio Stadium. The Rapids won 4-2 through goals from Shaun Bartlett (2), Marcelo Balboa and Richard Sharpe. Columbus got on the board courtesy of Brian McBride and Bartlett’s fellow-South African Doctor Khumalo.
- This encounter will be a 40th regular season meeting, with the Rapids 18-12-9 in the previous matchups against Columbus.