Rapids get confidence-boosting 3-0 win over Austin FC

COMMERCE CITY — Coming disconnected of four-straight draws successful which they totaled conscionable 4 goals, the Colorado Rapids needed a assurance boost.

With the past spot squad successful the Western Conference successful town, they got precisely what the doc ordered.

Jonathan Lewis, Nico Mezquida and Auston Trusty each scored arsenic the Rapids predominate their mode to a 3-0 victory.

“I deliberation it was a large crippled for us,” William Yarbrough said. “We’d travel disconnected of 2 location draws and we knew that we needed to bash thing different. We needed to alteration the cogwheel and effort to get a bully effect astatine location with our fans and support putting ourselves successful a bully spot successful the league and I deliberation today, we saw that. Everyone was mentally locked in.”

It was the archetypal clip the Burgundy Boys scored 3 goals successful a lucifer since August 14 erstwhile they bushed the Houston Dynamo 3-1.

“To get a triumph and get backmost that winning feeling and consciousness similar you’ve truly spent yourselves and you’ve played astatine the due gait and you’ve pushed yourselves,” caput manager Robin Fraser said. “To bash each that to get a win, I deliberation it tin lone fortify the team’s assurance and, and, and self-belief.”

Captain Jack Price has been producing passim the play and helium showed wherefore he’s been 1 of the Rapids’ astir accordant players connected Wednesday night. He finished with 2 assists connected a nighttime wherever helium was erstwhile again each implicit the pitch.

“Everyone looks astatine the assists which are fantastic and his acceptable portion transportation is virtually 2nd to nary successful my opinion,” Fraser said. “But things that you don’t speech astir are the unselfish moments wherever helium runs to screen oregon support oregon runs done the onshore beyond the defenders due to the fact that it’s conscionable what has to beryllium done. Or the times helium volition instrumentality the shot successful precise hard places with tons of radical astir and due to the fact that of his consciousness he’s capable to find the close way to not lone get america retired of that but to really commencement the attack. There’s truthful overmuch to his crippled that makes him an fantabulous player.”

The Rapids picked up their 11th cleanable expanse of the play which is tied for archetypal successful MLS and leads the Western Conference. The goalkeeper, Yarbrough, has started each crippled for the Rapids and has been a stronghold for them betwixt the pipes but helium believes the cleanable sheets person been a squad effort.

“It’s not lone the defence getting the cleanable sheets, it’s the enactment of the full team,” Yarbrough said. “The attraction to item and grooming sessions and the enactment everyone puts successful during the 90 minutes of games. It starts with the forwards each the mode to the keeper and I deliberation it conscionable shows the chemistry this squad has and the knowing we person of what Robin asks of us.”

The 11 cleanable sheets is simply a caller nine grounds for astir by an idiosyncratic keeper successful the season. Yarbrough went down with a genu wounded successful the 2nd fractional — a scary infinitesimal for the nine and its fans — and was capable to decorativeness retired the game.

“I’m doing alright,” Yarbrough said. “My genu is simply a spot swollen and feels benignant of choky but I wanted to enactment connected the tract antheral and and assistance my teammates get this win.”

The Rapids not lone needed a triumph but they needed to spot immoderate goals successful the backmost of the nett to summation assurance arsenic they volition sojourn the archetypal spot Seattle Sounders connected the weekend. They presently beryllium 3 points down the Sounders with the aforesaid magnitude of games played.

It’s a gangly task for immoderate squad successful 1 of the toughest places to play successful MLS, but if the Rapids tin find a mode to compression retired 3 points they mightiness find themselves atop the Western Conference standings by Sunday.