Colorado Rapids appear to get out of a bad odor when they fight Real Salt Lake at Rocky Mountain Cup in Commerce City, Kolo’s Commerce City on Saturday night.
The Rapids has dropped their last three matches and the winner (0-3-2) in their last five outings entering the rivalry competition.
Colorado (4-5-4, 16 points) is coming in large-scale unilateral relationship with a 2–0 road loss for San Diego FC on Wednesday.
“Yes, it was a difficult game for us,” said Rapids coach Chris Armas. “In this game, margins are thin in our league and western conference.
“There is not much space for error, and we did not do enough. … Saturday’s focus is now, all our energy is spent on recovery and is a big match for our players, our clubs and our fans.”
Colorado has been vacated in each of its last two matches. Rapids was out of 28–9 by San Diego FC.
Now Rapids appear to end their slide against Real Salt Lake (4-7-2, 14 points).
Salt Lake is 0–1-2 in his last three matches and visited Portland Timbers for a scorer tie on Wednesday.
Salt Lake has only 13 goals and more than half of them have come from Diego Luna.
Salt Lake coach Pablo Mastroni’s brain has an inability to score her club on a corner kick and free kick, which usually rates things as a top-up scoring opportunity.
“This year we have not scored an aggressive set-piece goal,” said Mastroni. “This is an area, even if we are in front, we should be able to find the mechanism to unlock that figure.”
Colorado is also not cruel over crime with just 15 goals. Rapids have two players with five goals – Rafael Navarro and Jordeze Mihleovic – a total of five with the rest of the roster.
In the last season, Colorado won two out of three matches against Salt Lake. Rapids won his home match 3–2 and won 2–1 in Sandy, Utah. RSL’s victory was a high-octane 5-3 domestic win.
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