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Colorado Rapids get Armas-era breakthrough in Rocky Mountain Cup | MLSSoccer.com
Putting their first win behind them was a slow build for the Rapids.
They suffered a lopsided 4-1 loss at the Portland Timbers in their first match of 2024, then a 1-1 draw vs. a depleted Nashville SC in the second. The incremental steps toward improvement are there, but there’s still plenty of work to be done. Armas didn’t shy away from that fact.
“Listen, we’re a work in progress, we have lots of work to do,” he said. “But I’ve said it all along: It’s an attentive group, it’s a hungry group. They’re young, but they’re good… It’s an important win for our team because they just need validation for the work that they’ve done. They come every day and work so hard.”
“Every day I get to work with winners. I see winners and it helps when they win, that it becomes part of your DNA,” Armas expanded. “So we want to keep at it. You know, it’s our first one. We’ll get right back to work, tomorrow actually.”
Armas added: “We’re looking more and more like the team we want to become.”