Donavan Phillip

know.

Donovan Phillip, though, maybe a Haji Wright-like ceiling.

Donovan Phillip is sick.

I love him.

Yeah, he's sick, man.

And Porig is just shyly like, mm-hmm.

God.

Donovan Phillip, what a great draft pick.

Yeah, dude, it did.

And you know, something that we talked about last week were certain players, uh, most notably I think your shout was for Donovan Phillip, right? To just say maybe he can, uh, take one of his opportunities or step up, contribute a little bit more in, in different aspects of the game.

And not to jump too far ahead, but the homie contributed some good amount, you know what I mean? With a, with a, with a, a blast from like two feet out, bro, but still made sure-

Yep

... as well, we s- we had Giorgi on the bench, um, and Josh Atencio on the bench, who are kind of, you know, players that we had consistently been seeing, um, out there.

So, uh, interesting dynamic there.

We still had H- um, Hamzat at the, you know, our, our defensive midfielder, and then between Filip and Frederick kind of, you know, filling in those, uh, the other attacking midfielders, which I thought was an interesting role for Donovan Phillip.

Um, which I kinda think, if I'm not mistaken, Morgan Whittaker really played that more midfield than Donovan did, and I think Donovan was-

the Seattle goalkeeper, and then Johnny on the spot.

It is Donovan Phillip to score, roofs it into the net, and then does this shoulder shimmy, and then like a horse trot almost, Brayden, that Rapids fans were having fun with.

It was not a horse, according to him.

He comes from a family of a lot of dancers in St. Lucia, and apparently that was a dance celebration that he and his uncle do playing when he scores goals, and Uncle Phillip was in...

We will find out from Donovan what his uncle's first name is.

But so does that celebration honor him with Uncle Phil in the stadium and has been with Donovan checking out his nephew for the last couple of weeks.

So that was fantastic to see and caps off just a really nice month that Donovan Phillip has had when the Rapids have needed something from their attacking depth.

Unfortunately for the Rapids, who at that point were dominating the game and up through one, excuse me, 76 minute Morgan Whitaker scores with a nice little self flick and then a half volley set up again by Paxson Aronson.

You got Whitaker that ends up putting up a brace.

And then Donovan Phillip ends up getting a goal for Colorado.

And then you got three people that ended up putting in some goals for Seattle and won late in the game.

Yeah, they salvaged a point Seattle did

And for the second time tonight, the Colorado Rapids has had his first goal in MLS this time.

It's Donovan Phillip on the rebound.

The Rapids once again out in front, 2-1.

Wayne Frederick receives a good pass from Aronson.

There was nothing about Yappy in these past couple games that has given me any hope he's going to be beneficial.

At this point, I'm saying, let's put Donovan Phillip in.

Put him at center forward.

I've seen some positive play out of that guy that makes me a little more excited.

And for me, I'm just like, where is it coming from? Where is the attack coming from? I just don't know.

And for me, I'm very, very concerned with the way that this team has it played in this game is none of our attacking threats at remotely showed up.

And yeah, And it's going to have to come from somebody who's like Donovan Phillip.

It's going to have to come from Ibrahim Sadiq whenever he joins the team.

So we don't have much.

We pulled up Donovan Phillip.

He started this game, which I think was a notable piece.

And I think he did a serviceable job in the role.

once we had to make that early sub and then like the first 30 minutes of the game, um, you know, it, it kind of threw everything for a loop.

So I think going into the second, after that first half, I was a little concerned because like, who, who are we bringing on the field at this point? And, And so that was kind of my immediate takeaway from that first half is great to see Paxton get a goal, great to see us on the front foot playing, but once we started seeing that injury, some changes happening, and then I was like, okay, this could spell some trouble for us.

Two talking points you just mentioned, Donovan Phillip getting the start, first MLS start, was it? I know it's not, yeah, I know he's had some minutes coming in as a sub-letter start.

Yeah.

You see him here making the right runs, the right timing, an awesome defensive play by a Colorado defender, and a really good save by Nico Hansen keeps him off the board.

69th minute, Georgie Manungu comes in for Donovan Phillip, and then we jump ahead to the 77th minute where the Rapids get out on a counterattack here.

They've got Manungu charging down the right on the ball, and he plays an early cross in looking for Darren Yappy.

It's a bit too far, but Yappy ends up running it down and then drops it back to Paxton Aronson, who's now at the top of the Austin 18, and Aronson tries to net his brace, targeting that far top corner with his right foot, and Brad Stuver at full stretch.