Tuesday night, the Colorado Rapids won their first road game of the season entertainingly. In a match made to be watched on a vivid 65” screen or heard through your favorite stereophonic earbuds, the teetering Rapids played with an ebullience that has not been witnessed by their fans this season.
They scored five goals in all, four consecutively, all while fending off a raging Red Bull side in America’s one-time Beehive of Industry- Harrison, New Jersey.
A creative writer at The Athletic Soccer efficiently captured the tense bout in this Tweet:
Red Bulls 1-0 Rapids
Red Bulls 2-0 Rapids
Red Bulls 2-1 Rapids
Red Bulls 3-1 Rapids
Red Bulls 3-2 Rapids
Red Bulls 3-3 Rapids
Red Bulls 3-4 Rapids
Red Bulls 3-5 Rapids
Red Bulls 4-5 Rapids
Colorado wins a nine-goal thriller.