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Mark-Anthony Kaye was the antheral who played leader Saturday nighttime astatine Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.
Added to the roster little than a period agone successful a commercialized with Los Angeles FC, the newcomer headed location the game-winner to headdress a Rapids comeback from 1 extremity down and defeat Rocky Mountain rival Real Salt Lake, 2-1.
“The guys person embraced him and he’s 1 of us,” Rapids caput manager Robin Fraser said of Kaye. “What a large mode to assistance your caller household by scoring the crippled winner.”
The Rapids got disconnected to a dilatory commencement successful the archetypal half, which carried implicit into the 2nd fractional with Salt Lake scoring successful the 51st minute.
“I can’t accidental successful nationalist the things I was saying connected the sideline (after the goal),” Fraser said. “It’s 1 of these things wherever the effort wasn’t poor, the effort is ne'er poor. This radical ne'er gives a mediocre effort, we conscionable weren’t truly bully aboriginal on.”
Colorado got the equalizer successful acquainted manner successful the 66th minute, with Diego Rubio putting a Jack Price country footwear wrong the adjacent post. Then came Kaye’s heroics 5 minutes later.
Braian Galván made the play happen, utilizing immoderate fancy footwork to find unfastened abstraction and occurrence a shot acold station that recovered Kaye’s caput moving into the spot.
The extremity not lone gave the Rapids a triumph implicit a rival and kept them live for the Rocky Mountain Cup, it besides granted the Burgundy Boys a important 3 points successful the MLS Western Conference standings.
“The things that (Kaye) has done connected the attacking extremity of the tract person been truly nice,” Fraser said. “His quality to find and value a last walk has been fantabulous for us. And he’s truly enactment america successful immoderate bully positions with immoderate of his passing, and it’s conscionable truthful fitting that helium scores a extremity that turns retired to beryllium the game-winner tonight, due to the fact that helium has acceptable close in.”
The Rapids traded for Kaye from LAFC connected July 27, portion helium was connected planetary work with the Canadian National Team. Since joining, helium has started successful each 4 games, a play that included back-to-back roadworthy wins for Colorado followed by Saturday night’s theatrics.
“Everyone was precise welcoming erstwhile I came in,” Kaye said. “Great radical of guys, large locker room. I had a bully speech with Robin and (Rapids wide manager) Padraig (Smith) astir the absorption the nine wants to spell successful and I was excited to beryllium brought. And truthful acold everything’s been good.”
There has been a spot of a learning curve for the midfielder, peculiarly getting a consciousness for his teammates, but the modulation has gone arsenic creaseless arsenic possible.
“I’m inactive trying to larn the tactics and the mode that the squad sets up,” Kaye said. “But the guys person been a bully assistance and the coaching unit person been bully and we’re getting bully results.”
The 26-year-old was named antheral of the lucifer Saturday night, and appears to beryllium getting comfy astatine the close time. That’s a large improvement for the Rapids, who are attempting to pursuit down first-place Seattle Sounders FC and second-place Sporting Kansas City successful the West.
The Rapids are 5 points down the Sounders with 2 games successful manus and 2 points down their adjacent opponent, Sporting Kansas City, besides with 2 games successful hand. A triumph against Sporting KC would jolt them into 2nd spot successful the West.
“I americium truthful arrogant of the team,” Fraser said. “On a nighttime wherever we didn’t play peculiarly good to find a mode to triumph was truly a tremendous accomplishment.”
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