Colorado Rapids April Preview – The Tests Continue

Now that that's out of the way, however, things don't get much easier. Vancouver away is the easiest looking match on the docket for month no. 2 of the season, and that's the same venue where the Caps spanked the Red Bulls 4-1 earlier this year. Besides that you have a resurgent Toronto side, the goddamn Quakes, and Colorado's old foe who still has only ever lost two games against the Rapids in team history.

Perhaps most daunting of all, two of the four games this month will take place in stadiums where the Rapids have never won (except that one time in Toronto, but that doesn't count). It's going to either be a long, long month, or a month where the Rapids take that bit of spark we saw in March and turn it into a solid campaign. It's no longer the three big dogs of the 2013 season they're facing, and this month will likely tell us a lot more about this team's potential for 2014 than those first three games did.

So last month, the Rapids got four points. This time around, I'm predicting they get five from a month. We'll see if I'm being too cautiously pessimistic or the other way around come mid-month.