Nothing goes right, Colorado loses 3-1

Smith blamed the lack of creativity and the referees for the loss in his postgame comments, but his line-up was just not what Rapids fans expected to see when they filled up DSGP today.

For the next 20 minutes or so – basically the entire rest of the half – Colorado looked terrible and lackadaisical to say the very least. This culminated in the second goal, a brilliant shot off of Juninho's foot from 25 yards out that no keeper in the world would have stopped. The ball came from Burchell as he was once again unmarked by Danny Earls, who also failed to press back and keep Juninho from having the wide open shot. Thankfully for the Rapids, there was very little stoppage time and the half came to a quick and painful end for them.

Caleb Folan made a tackle on Juninho in the 74th minute, getting the ball but also nicking Juninho's ankle. He went down fast and hard, immediately grabbing various parts of his leg and screaming for the medical staff as a gang of Galaxy players surrounded him and did the same. The referee amidst all of the chaos gave a completely undeserved red card to Folan, leaving them down to 10 men for the rest of the game and killing any real chance that Colorado had at a comeback. Juninho, disgracefully, came back into the game minutes later. LA scored the dagger a little while after that, putting the rotted cherry on top of a night where pretty much nothing went right. That Murphy guy from Murphy's law must be an LA fan!

MAN OF THE MATCH: Omar Cummings. The Rapids against a fast defense for LA needed speed and finesse, and Cummings provided both of those before getting the initial chance on the only goal for them. He needs to start early and often from now on.

GOAT OF THE MATCH: Danny Earls. There is no reason that this man should be starting or even sitting on the bench for a half-decent MLS team.