Austin and Colorado each have two wins against the other in four all-time MLS meetings, with the road team winning three of those games. The only home victory in the series was a 3-0 Rapids win in Commerce City in September 2021.
Austin FC enters the final match of the season on 55 points, an improvement of 24 from its total of 31 in its 2021 expansion season. Excluding the shortened 2020 season, only one team has had a larger point improvement from its first to second MLS season: Real Salt Lake (+ 25 – 18 to 43) in 2005-06.
Colorado’s 1-0 win over Dallas on Saturday was its eighth straight home match without a defeat (W5 D3). On the road however, the Rapids have just one win in 16 games this season (D4 L11), tied with San Jose for the fewest way points in MLS this season (7).
Sebastian Driussi enters the final match of the season second in MLS with 21 goals, two behind Nashville’s Hany Mukhtar. Driussi has scored just once since the beginning of September, though that goal came in Austin’s last home match. Driussi has scored in six of his last seven home appearances (8 goals).
The Rapids have conceded an MLS-high 21 set piece goals this season, including a league-high six goals from free kicks and nine on penalties. Only one of the last nine goals the Rapids have allowed has been on a set play, however, a San Jose goal off a corner in mid-September.
