Pride Night for the Colorado Rapids was celebrated with the CCL Champion Seattle Sounders in town at DSGP. Some new faces in burgundy were a nice surprise as Auston Trusty and Lucas Estevez were serving red-card suspensions and Gyasi Zardes was out injured. Rookie Anthony Markanich saw his first start, as well as Michael Barrios and Steven Beitashour returning to the starting eleven after Wednesday’s trip to Kansas City.
Colorado gave Seattle grief early as Lalas Abubakar chipped a beauty to Diego Rubio at the edge of the six-yard box. After a couple of touches to try and get into shooting position, the ball was eventually poked away for a throw-in.