Dynamo vs. Rapids : Preview

First and foremost I’d like to say that the D.C. United game has been rescheduled to be played on July 22 at RFK.

We go into this game coming off a nice long break from a crappy loss to the New England Revo’s for the 2nd time in a row this year. The Orange army travels to Dick’s Sporting Good’s park to face a Rapids team that failed to win in their last 2 road matches, but have won 3 of their last 4 games at Dick’s.

We have good news and bad news with word that Brian Ching will be back in the starting line up coming off a hat-trick in the Barbados 8-0 thumping, but our reliable Canadians De-Ro and Onstad are still serving international duty for their game against St. Vincent & Grenadines. Wade Barett is listed as probable assuming he is still struggling with that pesky adductor strain he’s been dealing with, if anything we need our captain fit and back in the line up we dearly miss him.

Look for both teams to come out the gate screaming as Ching is going to have all the confidence in the world to finish his chances and the Rapids will be looking to use that home field advantage to snatch a win, the Rapids on the other hand are dealing with Mike Petke, Justin Hughes, Jose Burciaga, Nico Colaluca, and Pablo Mastroeni all listed as out or questionable for tonight’s match, and of course Bouna Coundoul (ITS BOODA TIME!!!) is with Senegal preparing for their WCQ against Liberia.

Last year the Dynamo took the season series winning both the home and away matches before the Rapids took the season finale victory, and all I have to do is look at our very first game as the Dynamo to make me smile, recording a 5-2 victory with 4 goals coming from Brian Ching (Aww the good ol days!).

Prediction : Dynamo 2 - 1 Rapids

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