- FC Dallas Homegrown Brandon Servania scored his third career goal, first of the 2022 season, in his 50th MLS appearance.
- FC Dallas Homegrown Jesús Ferreira scored his second MLS brace (fourth and fifth goals of the season).
- Jesús Ferreira is one goal away from surpassing his dad’s total of 24 goals for FC Dallas that he scored in 2009-13.
- FC Dallas players Alan Velasco, Marco Farfan and Brandon Servania all recorded an assist in tonight’s win.
- FC Dallas goalkeeper Maarten Paes made a season-high of five saves.
- FC Dallas defender Marco Farfan started in his 50th MLS match.
- MLS Box Score
FRISCO, Texas (April 9, 2022) – FC Dallas (3-1-2, 11 points) earns a comeback win after defeating the Colorado Rapids (2-2-2, 8 points) 3-1 Saturday night at Toyota Stadium.
Game Summary
First Half:
7’ – CHANCE (COL) – Max’s shot inside the box went high above the crossbar, following a set up from Diego Rubio.
26’ – SAVE (DAL) – Keegan Roseberry sent a through ball to Michael Barrios who fired a right-footed shot to the both left of Paes’ goal, but Maarten Paes made a diving save.
30’ – GOAL (COL) – Diego Rubio slipped a right-footed shot past Paes to give Colorado a 1-0 lead after Michael Barrios connected with a long pass from Lucas Esteves.
45’+2’ – GOAL (DAL) – Brandon Servania’s long-range effort sailed past William Yarbrough to level the match up at 1-1, following the assist from Alan Velasco.
Second Half
51’ – GOAL (DAL) – Jesús Ferreira created space before unleashing a right-footed shot from the edge of the box that ended in Yarbrough’s bottom right corner of the goal, assisted by Marco Farfan.
60’ – CHANCE (COL) – Keegan Rosenberry’s cross fell into Diego Rubio’s path who poked the ball wide left of Paes’ goal.
89’ – GOAL (DAL) – Servania’s perfectly timed through ball connected with Ferreria who dribbled past Yarbrough to score his second goal of the match and make the score 3-1.
FC Dallas Postgame Quotes
Head Coach Nico Estévez
General thoughts on the match…
“The first half Colorado [Rapids] were dominating us in every aspect. Their staff was outcoaching us in the beginning. It was difficult for us to find a response to their play and it did seem like we had no comeback in us and we would have a rough time. We had an opportunity from a set piece. We have been practicing this play for quite a while now. To be honest, we would practice the play from a closer range. I want to thank my staff for helping create this play. In the half time talk, I told the players we had to find a solution because nothing was going our way. My staff made the decision of dropping Edwin [Cerrillo] between our center backs because their wing backs were able to push up and attack those open spaces. I asked Edwin if he was comfortable dropping back and he took on the challenge. At the halftime chat with the team we talked about the changes we were going to implement and the team understood it was something we had not worked on a lot but they would do their best. In the second half we still had other issues but we were adjusting those throughout the match. The importance of this match was that we were facing the Supporters’ Shield champions. They are a good team with good players and coaches. We are a team that still needs to improve and we will work to improve. Also a huge bonus having a team with the mentality that my players have to fight back.”
On the subs success off the bench…
“We had to adjust because we were having issues with our lines and Colorado kept taking advantage of those spaces. We brought on Paul and Franco, Franco helped us hold the ball up at the top so we could go up down the field. In the final play, if Jesús would have squared the ball to Franco he would have had a goal contribution in the match. The team has done and immense job, Paul has done a good job coming off the bench as well and getting out wide. Also Facundo did splendid getting in there and holding possession for us.”
FC Dallas Forward Jesús Ferreira
On what changed from the first half to the second half…
“In the beginning, we knew it was going to be a tough opponent. We knew Colorado was coming in here hungry for points. They were the winners of the Western Conference last year, that was our pre-game speech pretty much. We’ve gotta take it to them, this is our home. The first half didn’t go our way. We had to make some changes and fixed things that weren’t going right. We got back in here (the locker room) and made sure that we took care of it so we could go back outside and get a result.”
On his first goal…
“I think we noticed what we were missing in the first half and that was that connection with our midfield and wingers. You could tell the game changed when we were doing short passes, long passes and just connecting with each other. As a number nine, we always have the goal in the back of our mind so for me it was just ‘touch, turn and hit’ and it went in. I’m just excited and happy with the goals.”
FC Dallas Midfielder Brandon Servania
On his goal…
“It was a very good goal, it has been a while. It was a little rough in the first half but that goal helped shift the momentum. We adjusted and moved things around during the halftime and as you can tell in the second half we did a whole lot better. It was a massive win for us.”
On the family's influence on the goal…
“I saw it (North Carolina FC midfielder and brother Jaden Servania’s goal) on SportsCenter. It was awesome to see my brother score that goal. Obviously on the family group chat he was talking mad about it and I told him it would be my turn eventually. I had to match his goal.”
