Goal Breakdown: Plata scores after Colorado error opens net

Joao Plata scored one of his more interesting goals on Saturday with a tap-in after some incredibly poor defending from Colorado Rapids — but leaving the striker with none of the credit for the goal is probably wrong-headed.

In fact, I'd posit that it was down to some hard work from Plata himself that created the opportunity for error in the first place, and that the root cause was actually RSL-created.

First, take a look at how open Javier Morales is. With Morales missing most of the match as he wasn't 90 minutes fit after suffering a broken rib recently, it was an opportunity to see in stark terms just how important that tendency is to this team.