Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Colorado Rapids – Three Keys to the Game

Attack Down The Middle – The Rapids have had a strange syndrome since the first few games of the season where they've seemed to eschew playing their game down the middle – the spine of the team being its greatest strength – and instead focused on getting the ball down the wings and hoping for something to happen inside the six yard box as they lob cross after cross towards the net. Unfortunately, as we've seen the past few games it just hasn't worked out. When it comes to open play, they just rarely seem to get the ball toward the net lately in those situations with their goals coming from angling inward into the eighteen yard box and making the plays happen from there; look at their last goal from open play, the one against the

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took the ball around the edge of the box, cut inside and let loose a shot that was rebounded in by

. A prototypical goal for the Rapids offense, and the type of thing that they need to start creating the chances for again.