Petar Musa and Chris Cappis had goals in the first half while FC Dallas beat the Colorado Rapids 3-1 Saturday evening in a key match of the West Conference in Frisco, Texas.
Dallas (9-11-10, 37 points) went from 11th to ninth place to the west and in a rapid victory (11-14-6, 39 points) with the toros having four games to play in the regular season and in Colorado with three. Dallas and Colorado would meet in the West Wild Card Game if the season ends with now.
Dallas won his second consecutive match and moved his undefeated sequence to six games while Colorado abandoned three of his last four games.
The toros put pressure for a goal at the beginning and almost obtained it, Cappis cutting a shooting of the left post in the eighth minute.
Dallas finally found the net just six minutes later when Musa was in the ideal place in front of the net for a crossing pass from the outside of the left of the box by Logan Farrington.
Musa passed a defender of Colorado to direct the ball in front of the goalkeeper Zach Steffen and in the lower left corner. Shaq Moore also obtained a assist for the pass that started the score game.
The rapids responded to the 21st minute when Calvin Harris took a rebound and simulated a blow before sliding the ball in front of the Dallas Jacob Jackson goalkeeper to attach the match.
CAPPIS took advantage of its second chance for a goal, based on the doorstep in the 36th minute for a deep input pass by Patrickson Delgado and by directing the Steffen ball and in the net to allow Dallas to recover the advance.
The pass of Sébastien Ibeagha in Delgado obtained him a decisive pass on the goal.
Steffen was forced to stop on the low percentage shooting of Bernard Kamungo in the 59th minute. Jackson was then called to the duty to stop a chance by Paxt Aaronson two minutes later to keep Dallas in mind.
The toros received a gift that made a huge difference when Andreas Maxso led a head of Pedro Martins of Dallas in his own 80th minute goal, widening the margin at 3-1 and creating a huge hill to climb for visitors.
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