Nicolas Hansen

And I think we have to start with bad things.

I mean, that second goal that Nico Hansen gave up was pretty bad.

It was really bad.

I mean, it was among some of the all-time worst goalkeeper mistakes in the time that I've covered the team.

I don't know.

I mean, it was a disappointing game, and they should have been tighter.

And I think that, really, for me, the Nico Hansen gaffe is the killer, because of the difference between one and three points.

And, you know, you posted on socials about this, but, like, this is a warning klaxon level loss, because...

Wow.

The second goal is an absolute howler from Colorado keeper Nico Hansen.

He passes the ball inexplicably along a six-yard box.

I say inexplicably.

... are, are you s- are, are you surprised, Homie, that, you know, we ended up allowing them to... 'Cause even, you said even the, the third goal wasn't necessarily a banger.

It was just, you know, out, out of Nico's...

Uh, did it take a deflection or something like that with that?

Uh, I don't think so.

Or was it just out of Nico's reads that-

Yeah, it was through traffic.

It was hard, yeah

Yeah

It was totally avoidable.

That's either led to a Rob holding red card or an own goal or effectively an own goal, a goal conceded by the backup goalkeeper, who was only starting because Nico Hansen was committing time wasting against San Jose all those months ago.

So that was disappointing.

And then it was just two defensive breakdowns.

Injuries, international call-ups at interesting positions.

So I'll go first, and we'll go position by position, and you tell me where you disagree since I'm springing this on you.

Nico Hansen and Goal, I don't think there's any question about that.

I think the back four should be Miguel Navarro, Rob Holding, Louie Williams.

So who does a better job of disrupting the other? Who creates more transition opportunities, and who does more with said transition opportunities? In that regard, I'm almost more concerned about what the Rapids are doing when they do have the ball, of the what happens when...

You know, Nico Hansen could've given up a goal one minute into that game against Montreal with that pass that he had.

So can the Rapids break the St. Louis press knowing that this is probably one of, if not the best pressing teams that's gonna come to Dick's Sporting Goods Park and attack them? 'Cause we've already seen them do it against the Rapids back in April or May, whenever that game against St.

Louis was, where Rob Holding got the red card and they lost one-nil.

So, um, I think we should do lineup predictions.

Gents, I will go first since I am the one who brought this up.

Um, I think it's Nico Hansen in goal.

I don't think there's any scenario where it's not him.

Akron equalized just before half and then scored the winner in the 85th.

SLU had a penalty kick with 40 seconds remaining, but Akron's goalkeeper saved it.

They have fallen now to two, three, and one.

Eight goals, four eight goals against.

Still coached by Matt Wells, has taken them to be more of a possession type, circulation type team.

High tempo, has really engineered this team and the attack following the deadline and departure of some of their key players.

But again, look for this team to want possession, but They are going to look to kind of circulate between the goalkeeper, Nico Hansen, and their center backs, Rob Holding and Williams, to bait in the press, bait in some pressure and release to some of their playmakers and O'Hadrian and Josh Atencio, Paxton Aronson as well on this team.

They will get some width.

games in a short amount of time so i think he did what he needed to do and um you know i wouldn't expect to see him start uh in the future unless we really are in a bind yeah

nico hansen back at the lineup uh came through dude i thought he was good on the night got got got beat by a a Dude, the guy that came on for Austin just dropped in a peach of a freaking early cross.

And the dude with the header, yeah, just was like, what a great header, bro.

Like, if you're going to beat Nico Hansen, like, that's what it took on the night, right? It was just a freaking, let's just face it, a great goal from Austin to level it up.

towards the

end of the game there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But

is the play not let the ball run through here to your right and shoot one-on-one with Nico Hansen? It was a bewildering decision there in the moment.

And so I'm with you, man, in terms of being ready to go.

That's a blunder right there.

And it was really dead there, man.

It did allow us to talk a lot of shit and for people to hear what we were saying, which is always pretty nice.

But I'd much rather be drowned out by a raucous crowd of fans that love the same team that I love than being able to tell Nico Hansen that I hate him.

We see four minutes of stoppage given here in the first half.