GAME 11 – June 1, 2008

FC DALLAS 1, COLORADO RAPIDS 2

Dick’s Sporting Goods Park – Denver, Colorado

Scoring:

COL -- Conor Casey 1 (Christian Gomez 5) 7

DAL -- Dominic Oduro 4 (unassisted) 44

COL -- Tom McManus 3 (Rafael Gomes 1) 72

FC DALLAS (3-4-1-2): Ray Burse, Aaron Pitchkolan, Duilio Davino, Drew Moor, Blake Wagner Brek Shea 77), Marcelo Saragosa, Pablo Ricchetti, Bobby Rhine, Juan Toja (Ricardinho 83), Dominic Oduro (Arturo Alvarez 71), Kenny Cooper.

Subs Not Used: Mike Graczyk (GK), Michael Dello-Russo, Andrew Daniels, Eric Avila.

Shots – 6; Shots on Goal – 2; Total Saves – 6; Fouls – 11; Offsides – 8; Corner Kicks – 6

COLORADO: Preston Burpo, Facundo Erpen, Ugo Ihemelu, Rafael Gomez, Jacob Peterson (Jordan Harvey 78), Nick LaBrocca, Pablo Mastroeni, Colin Clark (Terry Cooke 64), Tom McManus, Conor Casey (Omar Cummings 46)

Subs Not Used: Chris Sharpe (GK), Mehdi Ballouchy, Herculez Gomez, Stephen Keel

Shots – 12; Shots on Goal – 8; Total Saves – 1; Fouls – 11; Offsides – 4; Corner Kicks – 4

Misconduct Summary:

COL -- Pablo Mastroeni (Yellow card) 45

DAL -- Marcelo Saragosa (Yellow card) 91

NOTES:

FC Dallas is now 3-4-4, 13 points on the season, and drop to fifth place in the Western Conference, though only one point out of second place and two point behind Conference-leading Colorado.

Today was the team’s sixth consecutive game versus a Western opponent, and ninth overall within the Conference…FCD is now 2-3-4 versus the West and 1-1 versus Eastern Conference teams.

The loss broke an 11 game undefeated streak versus Colorado. The last time Colorado defeated Dallas in regular season play was on Sept. 4, 2004, also a 2-1 loss in Denver.

FCD is now 1-2-2 on the road this year…

Dominic Oduro scored his career-high fourth goal of the year.

Brek Shea made his second career appearance.

The game was shown nationally on Univision station Telefutura…FCD is now 0-2-2 this season, and 1-7-2 since last year when on Telefutura.

Goalkeeper Dario Sala missed today’s game with a right hip injury. Ray Burse, who is loaned to Portland Timbers of the United Soccer League, was called back and made his first appearance of the year. Burse had played on Friday night in Montreal, and had arrived in Rochester, NY on Saturday morning, where he received the call to fly to Denver that afternoon. Portland was set to play Rochester tonight.

Also missing today’s game was Adrian Serioux, who played for Canada yesterday in a 3-2 loss to Brazil. Andre Rocha served a one game suspension for a red card he picked up last game. Dax McCarty is still out with a sports hernia.

Kenny Cooper and Duilio Davino are now the only two players to start and play in all 11 games.

Today’s attendance was 12,120.

FC Dallas will travel to play the New England Revolution on Friday, June 6 at 5:30 pm CT. The game was originally scheduled for June 8, but was moved up two days.

Marco Ferruzzi on the game: “"Playing three games in a matter of 10 days, and these guys have been putting a lot of effort into it. We're playing at altitude, but I thought we gave a great effort, and this is just one that got away."

On Ray Burse: "He made some spectacular saves. He came from Montreal two days ago, flew out of Rochester, and had a game Friday night. So, you have to give him a lot of respect, he came up big today a couple times."

Notes provided by FC Dallas Communications