Colorado Rapids vs Vancouver
MLS
Dick’s Sporting Goods Park
Colorado and Vancouver who were separated by just a point leading into this fixture locked horns on Sunday. The visitors’ struck first through Brian White’s 9th minute attempt.
The Rapids equalised minutes later through Zardes in the 21st minute. Diego Rubio secured the lead in the 33rd minute.
Despite attempts by the visitors to equalise, their opponents extended their lead. As Jonathan Lewis scored the 4th and final goal of the fixture.
Colorado Rapids vs Vancouver: Match report
Full time score: Colorado Rapids 3-1 Vancouver
Goals: 9’ – VAN – Brian White (Ranko Veselinović), 21’ – COL – Gyasi Zardes (Felipe Gutiérrez, Jonathan Lewis), 33’ – COL – Diego Rubio (penalty kick), 75’ – COL – Jonathan Lewis (Jack Price)
Colorado Rapids
22.William Yarbrough; 2.Keegan Rosenberry, 6.Lalas Abubakar (24.Gustavo Vallecilla 78’), 4.Danny Wilson, 66.Lucas Esteves; 21.Bryan Acosta, 13.Felipe Gutiérrez (19.Jack Price 68’); 15.Sam Nicholson (12.Michael Barrios 67’), 11.Diego Rubio © (77.Darren Yapi 84’),7.Jonathan Lewis (8.Max 78’); 29.Gyasi Zardes
Substitutes not used
1.Clint Irwin, 31.Anthony Markanich, 32.Collen Warner, 97.Ralph Priso
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
55.Cody Cropper; 23.Javain Brown, 4.Ranko Veselinović (87.Tosaint Ricketts 82’), 6.Tristan Blackmon, 2.Marcus Godinho (14.Luís Martins 63’); 18.Alessandro Schöpf (11.Cristian Dájome 64’), 20.Andrés Cubas, 31.Russell Teibert © (17.Leonard Owusu 73’); 19.Julian Gressel (27.Ryan Raposo 82’), 45.Pedro Vite; 24.Brian White
Substitutes not used
1.Thomas Hasal, 26.Florian Jungwirth, 28.Jake Nerwinski, 29.Simon Becher
Cautions
32’ – VAN – Ranko Veselinović, 52’ – VAN – Alessandro Schöpf
Post-match reaction
Robin Fraser: “I thought we played well enough to deserve to win. The engagement from start to finish I thought was excellent. As a result, even when we gave up a soft goal against a run of play, it didn’t change anything. I felt like the guys’ mentality was really good from the beginning. As I look at the result tonight, I think that that’s a big reason as to why we won, is that I thought their mentality was excellent from the beginning and very focused and very engaged. That’s really all we can do at this point is try to take care of what we can control and the only thing we can control are our games.”
