{"id":325772,"date":"2026-05-21T05:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T05:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:36:27","slug":"colorado-rapids-knock-off-san-jose-to-reach-us-open-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325772\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Rapids knock off San Jose to reach US Open Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The result sets up a semifinal clash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/st-louis-city-sc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis CITY SC<\/a>, who defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/houston-dynamo-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Dynamo FC<\/a> in penalty kicks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado opened the scoring in the 40th minute, as Yapi finished off a corner-kick routine with a close-range header at the far post, assisted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/dante-sealy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dante Sealy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Rapids doubled the advantage in first-half stoppage time, with Navarro converting from the spot after a handball in the penalty area on San Jose&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/reid-roberts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reid Roberts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Colorado will host St. Louis in the semifinals as they seek their first-ever US Open Cup title, with their lone previous appearance in the tournament final coming in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The result sets up a semifinal clash with St. Louis CITY SC, who defeated Houston Dynamo FC in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[43956,134608,11413,88,1084,90,89,6532,75015],"class_list":["post-325772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-colorado-rapids","tag-colvssj-05-20-2026","tag-match-reaction","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-us-open-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}