For only the fourth time in 26 regular season games, Colorado Rapids need to come back from a defeat.
On each of the three similar scenarios so far, Pablo Mastroeni’s men have responded with victory. But the trip to New England Revolution is different.
A spate of absences due to international commitments, plus a couple of key injuries, mean Rapids must employ the extremities of their squad at Gillette Stadium and probably call back some loaned players.
If Marlon Hairston succumbs to his adductor problem then Mastroeni will be missing seven players, two-thirds of a team.