Chicago Fire 2 Colorado Rapids 1 – Unfortunate Again

It's late and I'm incredibly tired — I also only paid attention for about half of the game tonight so I don't have the full spectacle of it in my head — so I'm just going to boil this down to a small list of bullet points:

* The referee had a shocker tonight. Neither handball call against the Rapids was particularly stonewall, while Chicago's second goal was pretty clearly offside. His overall game was pretty bad as well, and he topped it with a cherry when he called time before all four minutes of allotted stoppage had even passed despite 30 seconds of Fire time-wasting preceding it. There's no excusing Colorado's defensive errors though, and even a well refereed game likely would have ended in a tie at the best for the Rapids.

* If Deshorn Brown continues to have games like that, he'll be back in the RoY discussion. Great goal and a great effort to almost get a second, but for that handball call. Was involved all evening.