The Houston Dynamo lost at home for the first time of the year against Colorado Rapids 3-1 on Saturday night.
Colorado dominated the match from the starting whistle. They controlled the midfield and with that the tempo of the game. Mark-Anthony Kaye that went from LAFC to Colorado recently and it certainly gave a big boost to the Rapids’ offense. He had a great game among Michael Barrios, Andre Shinyashiki, and Diego Rubio who made Houston defense looked bad.
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Dynamo’s coach Tab Ramos made some moves in the starting eleven, but that did not help change the situation for the Texan team. The Orange created chances in offense. As a matter of fact, they had more chances than the visitor side, but they are struggling with their last touch.
The Rapids went up on the score fast in the match. Lalas Abubakar scored off a corner kick at the 5’. The Dynamo found the equalizer via a PK after right before the half time ended Maynor Figueroa was brought down inside the box. Fafa Picault was in charge of shooting the penalty kick and he scored the partial 1-1 at the half.
The second half, the home team looked better at midfield, and they created some chance to get the lead. However, the visitors were the ones who found the lead at the 60’ when Michael Barrios beat goalkeeper Marko Maric for the 2-1. Braian Galvan scored a great goal at the 80’ to seal the victory for Colorado that remains in the top 4 of the conference standings.
Houston keeps falling in the standings and have been winless in the last 12 matches. Their last win was three months ago, and Tab Ramos and the squad are not finding answers to switch the momentum. They will certainly try to do so on Wednesday 18th as the will visit Real Salt Lake when they need to fight with everything they have to get those three points.
