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Rapids host Austin FC and send them home hurting for points, wash over them 1-0 · Altitude Sports Radio Game Replays and Highlights

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  Speaker 1: Good evening Rapids fans. I'm kind of cape joined by
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  Speaker 1: Drew Moore Jesse Tridio here at Dick Sporting Goods Park,
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  Speaker 1: where tonight you Burgandy boys are back at home and
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  Speaker 1: against Austin FC. This is the first of two matchups
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  Speaker 1: between the two Western Conference sides this season. We've got
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  Speaker 1: all twenty two men plus our four officials walking out
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  Speaker 1: to the center stripe. One hundred and fifty years old.
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  Speaker 1: Colorado turns today in the Colorado Rapids on what is
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  Speaker 1: this state holiday and this milestone, looking to get three
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  Speaker 1: points richer against a team below them in the table.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be something in the fall and
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  Speaker 1: winter in the MLS Cup playoffs, you gotta beat these
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  Speaker 1: kind of teams. You gotta win these kind of games,
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  Speaker 1: especially at home. First corner of the evening in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth minute here for Colorado, Sealy puts it in near post,
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  Speaker 1: bounces across the Vajo, can't turn it towards goal. Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: The follow up his shots blocked another corner, this one
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  Speaker 1: from the opposite side for Colorado. How did George? I
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  Speaker 1: mean he also hit that thing with such gusto for
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  Speaker 1: about five yards out as hard as he could and
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  Speaker 1: it just gets blocked away Sabovich right foot. It's blocked
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  Speaker 1: by the legs of Hanson and then a whistle blows
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  Speaker 1: there's a foul in there by Austin. Great job by
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  Speaker 1: Nico Hansen. Saw I come and it came in with
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  Speaker 1: some venom from Sabovich and he I think it was
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  Speaker 1: smart by him to take it because he's screened by
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  Speaker 1: the wall. Grown man moved there by a rapid center
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  Speaker 1: back against one of the more prolific strikers in MLS.
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  Speaker 1: No Vaja and Aronson combined after a ricochet off their
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  Speaker 1: Austin defender. Now Aaronson into the box. Shot punched up
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  Speaker 1: into the air by Stubor Harrington and the halfway line
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  Speaker 1: pushes it back towards the Austin back line. Got better there,
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  Speaker 1: won by Harris. Now brought down Yappie at the arc,
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  Speaker 1: right footed shot. The rebound gets rushed out to Nevaja,
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  Speaker 1: who's calling it into the penalty. A collectionion up the
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  Speaker 1: corner of the eighteen. He's gonna end up with a
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  Speaker 1: kick from the spot for Colorado. It's been zero zero
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  Speaker 1: for ninety plus minutes tonight. At Dick's borting gets park
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  Speaker 1: in Nevajo the opportunity now to break the deadlock for
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  Speaker 1: Colorado and earn this team three points. Navajo backs away
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  Speaker 1: from the ball, shrugs his shoulders deep breath and deep
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  Speaker 1: breath out, chops his feet right f hammers it into
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  Speaker 1: the packet. Than that.
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  Speaker 2: The Rapids get the one goal they've been looking for,
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  Speaker 2: get the only goal that they need tonight, his ninth
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  Speaker 2: of the season. Halfay On Nevajo goes left and then
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  Speaker 2: nat ripples.
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  Speaker 1: Just ten seconds away from ninety eight minutes, the Rapids
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  Speaker 1: are up one zero. The second half stoppage penalty, Tlahita
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  Speaker 1: has a diagonaball off his chest, rolls it into the
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  Speaker 1: box left footed. Ball want to save by Hanson, preserving
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  Speaker 1: the clean sheet, preserving the three points. Austin pick it
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  Speaker 1: up in the middle third, knocked down by Navajo. Final
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  Speaker 1: whistle blows the Rapids back in the win column, one
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  Speaker 1: zero over Austin FC, A game where the first forty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes was all Colorado, the second forty five was
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  Speaker 1: back and forth. They had to do everything to earn it,
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  Speaker 1: including a penalty in second half stoppage time, converted by
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  Speaker 1: half Anavajo for his ninth goal of twenty twenty six,