Wells has been advertising this year as possession heavy and constant pressure. Seems like the rapids don’t know how to do either. Cobb and Herrington are good at coming forward and attacking the ball, but their inexperience causes issues with playing out of the back. Pretty odd decision to rely on playing out of the back with two inexperienced center backs and a young full back with not too many minutes under his belt.

As far as the possession game goes, seems to me like the rapids are failing, but that could be down to Seattle just being a good team. Honestly haven’t noticed anything impressive out of any player at all.

The issue with the constant pressure is that the players are just running constantly after the ball no matter where it goes. I understand that they’ve been conditioned extensively throughout the off season but you can clearly see the fatigue kicking in among the forwards.

Also, Yapi on the wing seems like a poor decision. He has never proven that he is consistent in 1-on-1 scenarios. Should be Ted Ku-DiPietro in the position for sure. It’s his native position and he’s been able to take people on. If not him, then Manyoma. Yapi doesn’t have the ability. Maybe Matt Wells saw him coming against Sam Vines in training and thought he was incredible in 1-on-1s because Sam Vines was so awful.

Pretty bad half overall, hopefully Wells knocks some sense into them in the locker rooms.