Darren Yapi scored in the 41st minute on Saturday night and Colorado Rapids won 1-0 winning 1-0 when he went to St. Louis City SC.
Yapi benefited from a lucky deflection on his third goal of the year. Serving by Ted Ku-Deputyro, Yapi saw his right in the middle of the box and fired a right toe, which did not distance a defender more than two feet from him and wandered inside the left post.
As St. Louis goalkeeper Roman Berki removed his arms in the air in frustration, the Yapi festival slipped to the surface of the wet game. Colorado (6-5-4, 22 digits) created the lead stick on the last 49 minutes as well as a straopage time for his second straight 1-0 win.
Meanwhile, the struggle for St. Louis (2-8–5, 11 points) continued, who are the winners in 11 matches, eight have lost. It has not won since 1-0 on 15 March after emptying the Seattle Soundlers.
St. Louis coach Oloff Melburg has come into fire from fans and media during Skid as his team has often proved impotent and unable to end. This was actually a solid occupation time of about 55 percent and corresponds to 12 shots of rapids, generating more corners and crosses, but simply could not change.
Backup goalkeeper Nicholas Defritas-Henson, who replaced the injured Zack Stephen (diagonally) for Colorado, received a clean sheet with three savings. Burkey saw five savings for St. Louis.
Pregam Storyline described the Rapids switch about 4-2–3-1 alignment that he successfully used last year, when he was cruel in a playoff spot and one of the league’s highest scoring outfits. He tried 4-2-2-2-2-2 for six matches before switching 1-0 to Real Salt Lake last week.
But Mother Nature took the initial spotlight, leading to a storm on the pitch that forced the authorities to suspend in the sixth minute. Finally there was a delay in stability for about 90 minutes before the ending.
The result marked the eighth time in 15 matches that St. Louis has not scored.
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