The game started out hot and heavy and in Colorado’s favor. Thank my lucky stars they were gifted a PK in the early minutes by a flailing Houston defender, who batted the ball down off an early corner. Kirovsky rewarded for applying the pressure in the box.

Two players got starts that I hadn’t seen play this year: Clint Mathis and Johan Kirovsky—Clint, ex-World Cupper and Johan ex-Budesliga recognition. Clint Mathis now physically looks terrible. He reminds me of a blotted Swedish Brolin after World Cup 1994 when he went to Crystal Palace and asked for all his earnings in the form of Mickey D’s dollar menu items.

I think Clint commemorates every game in the MLS with 10 of the same and a bottle of Wild Turkey. After Johan Kirovsky scored the opener he must have immediately ran to a corner and hid. I needed a gps tracker to confirm he was still on the field throughout the game.

Unfortunately for Colorado, my favorite player as the game went on was the finisher of the two Houston goals, Dogleash. His name is spelt different, but that is how this strikers name is pronounced, so Dogleash it is. I don’t know his past, but I could guess that he has spent some time playing in the Houston Inter-Correctional league—where he was known as the Shiv.

Colorado’s backline looked a little more sound since I saw them last, but it seems that Karanka has been living off having Real Madrid on his resume for at least 3 years. His form had to have dropped so many levels to be displaying the errors that he was committing, aka the goals by the Shiv (Dogleash).

For some reason, Niko Hernandez started in the Colorado midfield. This is the guy who scored two goals last game, but slowly moved forward in this one. I think he needed to give his hair the chance to dry by doing a bit of running. Offense this time was out of the question. He couldn’t get anything going because he needed his Brazilian provider Martins to have someone on the same wave length. Alas, it never came even when the Brazilian Mountain Man got the nod in the 65th minute.

The two starters, who I mentioned earlier, were no where to be found.  Johan Kirovsky ended his day after the PK in the 3rd minute, and I think Clint Mathis hit the bottle at half time.

Houston though, looked sober and ready to work. Most embarrassing for Colorado was when Ganggreen, or whatever the right backs name was, who got in as a sub, was butchered in the corner by some fresh skill by the Venezuelan Moreno, who served a cash money right footed bending cross to a low volley finish, to show Colorado that they were out of their league.  And apparently now out of their season. Good bye and thanks for the Good times Class 2 Rapids (at least that’s better than class 4!).

Meditations from Mongoose

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