Five things to know when the Sounders host the Rapids

Photo by Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesIt definitely hasn’t been an enjoyable past couple weeks for the Seattle Sounders. They’ve been handed three consecutive defeats, and 3 points from an attainable 15. A home match against a struggling Colorado Rapids team could be a good place to turn their poor run of form around. Here are five things to know:

The Rapids are really bad away from home

The Rapids finished atop the Western Conference standings in 2021. It was a wildly overperforming team, and it definitely hasn’t translated to 2022 league play or their short-lived CCL campaign. Part of what put that 2021 Rapids team in the position they were in was their ability to grind out…