FC Dallas at Colorado Rapids – game info and lineup prediction

“I love winning, I f***ing love winning! You know what I’m saying? It’s, like, better than losing?” – Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh

FC Dallas notched its first road win of 2025 last weekend, matching the club’s road win total from last season. Needless to say, a good start.

Your 1st place Los Toros (1-0-0, 3 points) travel to Commerce City, Colorado, to face the 9th place Colorado Rapids (0-0-1, 1 point) at DICK’S Sporting Goods Park. Kickoff is at 8:30 pm CT. Dallas hasn’t won there since 2014. This is the Rapids 2025 home opener.

The Rapids lost to LAFC on Tuesday and were eliminated from the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup. There is an investigation underway into the reported use of abusive language in that game.

Broadcast Info

TV: MLS Season Pass on Apple TV
– Apple TV English: Blake Price, Warren Barton
– Apple TV Spanish: Jorge Perez Navarro, Marcelo Balboa
– Local Audio: Ryan Figert and Steve Davis.

MLS Injury/Player Availability Report

FC Dallas

Out: Léo Chú – illness
Out: Paxton Pomykal – knee
Out: Geovane Jesus – knee

Show Cafumana (Illness) is no longer on the injury list but I’m told Cafumana has not rejoined the team full-time in training. So we’ll continue to leave him out of the 18 for now.

Colorado Rapids

Out: Ted Ku-DiPietro – Shoulder
Out: Jackson Travis – Upper Body
Out: Sam Vines – Lower Body
Questionable: Andreas Maxsø – Knee
Questionable: Connor Ronan – Thigh
Questionable: Darren Yapi – Shoulder

FCD Lineup Prediction

FC Dallas played fairly well at Houston with only a couple of subpar performances.

The one notable change, based on play, could be Bernie Kamungo with either Pedrinho or Logan Farrington in. But I think Coach Eric Quill will want to support his winger a bit and give him another game or two.

So basically I’m predicting the same XI as the Houston game and therefore the same bench as that game other than Chú.

Bench Prediction
Michael Collodi
Lalas Abubakar
Enzo Newman
Logan Farrington
Tsiki Ntsabeleng
Nolan Norris
Patrickson Delgado
Tarik Scott
Pedrinho

MLS Kit Assignments

Officials

REF: Lorenzo Hernandez
AR1: Corey Rockwell
AR2: Nick Balcer
4TH: Abdou Ndiaye
VAR: Greg Dopka
AVAR: TJ Zablocki

More Game Info

• FCD vs. COL all-time: 35-30-19 (125 goals scored, 108 goals conceded)
• FCD vs. COL away: 9-21-11 (48 goals scored, 62 goals conceded)

FC Dallas had a record of 1-0-0 when trailing at halftime.

Osaze Urhoghide has the fastest speed recorded for FC Dallas this season at 33.89 KM/21.06 miles per hour. He ranks 16th across MLS.

Dallas looks to get its second consecutive road victory for the first time since 2018.

FC Dallas is unbeaten in its last 21 MLS matches when leading at halftime (W15, D6).

Dallas is currently on a five-game winless streak versus the Rapids. Dallas’ last win in Colorado was on Oct. 18, 2014.

Lalas Abubakar (FCD) and Reggie Cannon (COL) each used to play for the other club.

The series goes back to the beginning of MLS. The Dallas Burn were the opponents for the first-ever Colorado Rapids home game back in 1996. A 3-1 win for the Rapids built on a Marcel Balboa brace.