June 17, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (7-4-4, 25 pts, 3rd West) returns home to its Rio Tinto Stadium fortress in this weekend’s resumption of Major League Soccer regular-season action, hosting the San Jose Earthquakes (3-6-6, 15 pts, 13th West) for a 7:30p MT kickoff as part of Saturday’s Juneteenth celebration. A standing-room only crowd is expected once again in Sandy, with RSL welcoming 20,000+ fans for a team-record seventh consecutive match to kick off its 2022 campaign.
Saturday’s match will be broadcast locally via KMYU (12 over the air, 22 satellite and 643 HD on cable), with streaming on the KSL Sports App, as well as ESPN700 AM radio. Spanish-speaking fans can tune in on KBMG Latino 106.3 FM, La Gran D 102.3 FM and KTUB 1600 AM for the local radio broadcast
RSL seeks to bounce back from a disappointing loss in the Club’s last match, a stunning 2-1 loss at Vancouver that was decided by a stoppage-time penalty kick, negating winger Justin Meram’s early second-half equalizer, his 50th career MLS goal. During the Pablo Mastroeni era, RSL has lost back-to-back games just once, posting a 7-1-2 (W-L-T) in matches following a loss (last November, RSL suffered back-to-back losses to San Jose and Portland). RSL is 9-2-1 at home under Mastroeni, who became the Club’s sixth manager last August.
In RSL’s last home appearance on May 28, a dominant 3-0 Claret-and-Cobalt win over visiting Houston marked RSL’s third-consecutive victory, one which extended this year’s home record to 5-0-1 (W-L-T) – matching the best-ever home start in the Club’s 18-year history (2010, 2016). That win also marked Real Salt Lake’s quickest-ever accumulation of 25 points (14 games), matching the 2014 standard. Finally, 20,489 witnessed goals from FW Bobby Wood, FW Sergio Cordova and DF Justen Glad in a match which will be remembered as FW Jefferson Savarino’s return to Utah.
However, San Jose enjoyed great success on Utah soil a year ago, becoming just the second team ever to win twice in Utah in the same season (Portland, 2014), the ‘Quakes emerging victorious in both appearances in shocking fashion. On May 7, two late Chris Wondolowski goals in the final 10 minutes erased a 1-0 RSL lead, courtesy Rubio Rubin’s eventual MLS Goal of the Year. Then, on October 30, San Jose ran out to a 4-1 lead in a game RSL needed to win or tie to clinch a playoff berth, only to concede two late goals to Maikel Chang and Albert…
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