Columbus and Colorado are each notable this year for having a pronounced style of play. But what happens when a key piece of that style - a team's leading scorer - is suddenly subtracted?
If ever there was a game that displayed the possibility of a quick reversal of fortune in Major League Soccer, it was this one. At this point in the 2015 season, the Colorado Rapids were 1-7-2 (W-T-L), having gained 10 points in a series of droll 1-1 ties, en route to a bottom-of-the-conference finish. The team lacked any semblance of a scoring threat, as even leading scorer Kevin Doyle had yet to see his first minutes, and the team was fruitlessly starting either Dominique Badji or Gabriel Torres as the number 9.