{"id":243141,"date":"2025-09-21T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:07:11","slug":"fc-dallas-unbeaten-in-six-straight-matches-moves-into-playoff-spot-with-win-over-rapids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243141\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Dallas, unbeaten in six straight matches, moves into playoff spot with win over Rapids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">FRISCO \u2014 Petar Musa and Chris Cappis scored first-half goals to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/\">FC Dallas<\/a> to a 3-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas (9-11-10) moved a point in front of Houston for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference with the Dynamo having a match in hand. Colorado (11-14-6) is eighth \u2014 two points in front of Dallas having played an extra match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 14th minute when Musa used assists from Logan Farrington and defender Shaq Moore to score his 15th goal this season after scoring 16 times as a rookie last year. It was the fourth assist for Farrington, who had eight as a rookie last season. Moore\u2019s helper was his third of the campaign and 10th of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Throwback threads and a win: Photos from FC Dallas&#8217; game against Colorado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3000 \/ 2401\"   class=\"dmnc_generic-gallery-swiper-module__Kyr7i w-full h-full object-cover absolute left-1\/2 dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DOPMBDNY2VF4VLLKKGWM3ADLOI.jpg\" alt=\"FC Dallas midfielder Christian Cappis (12) is congratulated by FC Dallas forward Logan...\"\/>View Gallery<\/p>\n<p>Rangers<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Rangers fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Colorado answered with the equalizer in the 21st minute on an unassisted goal by Calvin Harris \u2014 his career-best fifth of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Cappis scored his first career goal in his seventh appearance for what proved to be the winner in the 36th minute with assists from Patrickson Delgado \u2014 his career-high fifth \u2014 and defender Sebastien Ibeagha \u2014 his first this season and second in 185 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">An own goal by Rapids defender Andreas Maxs\u00f8 in the 80th minute provided the final margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jacob Jackson saved two shots in his second start for Dallas. He had a clean sheet in a 2-0 win over Austin in his first start on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Zack Steffen totaled four saves for the Rapids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas travels to play the Portland Timbers on Saturday. The Rapids return home to play Minnesota United on Saturday.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/2025\/09\/13\/fc-dallas-beats-austin-behind-clean-sheet-from-goalkeeper-jacob-jackson-in-his-home-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FC Dallas beats Austin behind clean sheet from goalkeeper Jacob Jackson in his home debut<\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/2025\/09\/13\/dallas-trinity-fc-loses-for-first-time-on-season-blown-away-by-fort-lauderdale-united-fc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Trinity FC loses for first time on season, blown away by Fort Lauderdale United FC<\/a><\/ul>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more FC Dallas coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO \u2014 Petar Musa and Chris Cappis scored first-half goals to lead FC Dallas to a 3-1 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,15519,13448,358,21371,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-243141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-fc-dallas","11":"tag-frisco","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-toyota-stadium","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115240556786856815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}