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Rapids Draw Third Straight in Scoreless 0-0 Match Against Portland Timbers · Altitude Sports Radio Game Replays and Highlights

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Rob Holding gets a yellow card. A 13th minute yellow
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: for Rob.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: That's not what we wanted.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Wayne Frederick pushing it forward on the left wing for Yappie,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: top of the 18. Darren Yappie cuts left, chops it
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: back to his right, knocks it back to Frederick. Frederick
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: dancing on the ball, cutting left, cutting right. His cross
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: is knocked down. Georgie has it. Georgie into the box,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: hands it off to Frederick. Frederick dribbling across the top
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: of the box, rolls it back to Atencio, back out
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: to the left wing. Navarro rolled backwards 10 yards, 15th
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: minute in the Rapids. Don't even get a look at
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: goal after getting the ball into the box. Aaron Yapi,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: a seeing eyeball to the top of the box for
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Donovan Philip. Donovan Philip to his left, shoots. Panemis, kick save.
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: It's a good save by Panemis because I don't think
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: he saw it.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: Yapi gets knocked down and is holding his face.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: If it's a head injury, you have to stop play.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: If it's a head injury, you have to stop play.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Good grief, finally. That is ridiculous. He's holding his face.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: He's got an arm up in the air asking for help.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: He got an elbow up high in the face from
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: Diego Chara.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: Why did that take so long? My goodness.
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Izoita takes it. Now Atencio takes it from Izoita. Then
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: Darren Yaffe is fouled. When are we going to get
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: the call, huh? Is Janssen going to get a yellow
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: card here? How many fouls on 77 before.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: A card is shown? It only took one for Velda.
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: Come on. I guess if you're not a designated player,
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: you don't get the calls, huh? Timbers running forward. David DaCosta.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: And a Loic Williams. Pauses. Stops. Knocks it across. Big
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: save by Nico Hansen.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Shot went right at him and he punched it away.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: Stays nil-nil.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Long ball overhead. Omir Fernandez and Navarro going after it.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Fernandez nods it down, bounces off Navarro, and then Navarro
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: and Fernandez collide. It's going to be a goal kick here.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Omer Fernandez went clattering into the ad boards head first.
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: And they're going to immediately bring the trainers out for him.
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: That looked pretty nasty.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: First up, Velda around Rob Holding to his right, top
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: of the 18.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: Velda looking. He gets knocked.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Down by Morgan Whitaker, and then it's a yellow card,
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: and now there's a big old scrum down there, and
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: this is going to take a little bit to sort out.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: This is not going to be nice. This is not
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: going to be good. They are full-on brawling down there.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: That is, this is not good at all. Direct ball
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: here intended for Velda. Loic Williams gets caught up as
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: the cross comes in. It's off the underside of the
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: bar and cleared by Portland, and Loic Williams is down.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: He got stepped on to the point where his shoe
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: came off. Rapids wanted a foul call. Loic Williams wanted
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: a foul call. He got stepped on when the ball
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: came down. Jorge Mungu is in to the box, onto
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: his left foot.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: Jorge looking for a cross. There it is! It's knocked wide!
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: How?
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: A goal kicked out of it. Phillip was right there.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: I thought he could have walked the ball in. I
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: need a replay. Oh, my goodness.
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: Jackson Aronson has switched to Josh Atencio over there on
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: the far side now. Josh Atencio knocks it forward for Georgie.
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: Georgie looking for the breakthrough. Cuts to the inline. Got
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: some space. Fizzes it in.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: Over the par. Colorado gets it back.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Wayne Frederick. Navarro picks out Aronson. Aronson is going to
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: have space to sprint into. Knocks it to the left
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: to Yappie. Yappie just outside the box. Cuts to his right.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Lining up an effort. Lining up a cross for Sadiq.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: Knocks it down.
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: It's blocked.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: Being chased and hemmed in. But he's just shrugging off defenders.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Loic Williams going on a journey.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: Through the midfield.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: Atencio takes the ball. Knocks it out to Sadiq. Sadiq
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: at the corner of the box to his right.
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: And it sends it wide.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: Just get it on frame. Or just get a cross in.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Miguel Navarro is going to be the one who serves
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: up the cross. Timbers Army, the loudest it's.
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: Been all night.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: They're urging on their defenders. And the Rapids looking for
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: the breakthrough.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: 0-0.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Late in the second half. Late in the 2026 MLS season.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: The Rapids chasing all three points. Chasing playoff security. Miguel Navarro,
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: left foot, going back post. Wayne Frederick heads it across.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Second header's won. Paxton Aronson can't get a clean look.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: Yapi can't get a shot. It's deflected off Colorado. No
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: shot taken. It had so much backspin on it, it
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: hopped up on Yapi.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: Navarro for Hamzat. Hamzat with space. Hamzat pulls it wide.
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: Bobbed into the top of the 18. Plains Frederick trying
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: to get to it. Yappy trying to get to it.
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: Yappy gets headed off the ball.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: Yappy's been beat up tonight. Boy, he has put in
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: a shift. Paxton Aronson now on it for Colorado. Aronson
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: looking to pick out a pass.
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: He's got Siddiq. Top of the 18. Looking for Yappy.
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: Doesn't get it. That's going to be it.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: Although we're going to play on here. That was three minutes.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: Here come the Timbers the other direction. Still going Velda.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: Blocked by Thompson. Hamzat heads down the next ball. Out
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: to Navarro. Blow the whistle. That is it. That's the
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: final whistle. The Rapids pick up a point in Providence Park.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: This could prove to be a valuable, valuable point in
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: the race for the Western Conference playoffs. The Rapids will
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: now get a full week of rest before being back
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: home to take on Vancouver Whitecaps FC at Dick's Sporting
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: Goods Park next Saturday.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: And it's a midweek match at.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: San Jose back home against Chicago and then decision day
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: from North Texas in Frisco.
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: That is where we're at in 2026 and the Rapids
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: still looking for that playoff security.