Gritty at home. Lazy around halftime. Up and down. For better or for worse, the Colorado Rapids continue to show exactly who they are.
The Seattle Sounders have been one of the more low-key bogey teams for the Rapids in recent years, but the two teams shared the points on Saturday night with a 1-all draw at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
The Rapids are unbeaten in their last three games, but after a late equalizer conceded in Houston a week ago and a winner called back against Seattle, they’ll be left wanting more from the recent stretch. The Sounders are unbeaten in the same run of games.
Djordje Mihailovic got the opening tally for the Rapids in the 54th minute. Oliver Larraz drew a foul inside the D, then Mihailovic snuck a low drive under a jumping Sounders wall to beat longtime Seattle star keeper Stefan Frei. It was Mihailovic’s fifth goal of the regular season (seventh in all competitions) and his third straight match with a goal.
The Sounders got on the board first in the 45th minute. On a free kick around midfield, Seattle went quick and caught the Rapids snoozing on what became a counter. Jesus Ferreira found Kalani Kossa-Rienzi on the right wing, where offside shouts were ignored, and he put in a low cross to Danny Musovski, who almost couldn’t have missed.
Musovski, who was subbed out at halftime, has now scored in each of his last three games with the Sounders.
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They’ve also given up a few in the last five minutes of games.
The Rapids seemed to have a winner in the 86th minute, when substitute Kévin Cabral lofted a cross to Rafael Navarro, who knocked in a header. Navarro was ruled to have fouled a Seattle defender on the way up, but the season-high 16,312 Rapids fans in attendance disagreed vehemently when the replay was shown around the stadium.
Cabral was denied a header of his own by Frei in the 90+4th minute, which was the last action of regulation. The following corner was punched away by Frei.
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