May 24, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (8-2-4 / 28 points / 1st West) travels this holiday weekend to Frisco, Texas to face FC Dallas at Toyota Stadium Saturday night, looking to extend its first-place lead atop the MLS Western Conference and stretch its overall unbeaten run to 11 games, as a win or draw would also give Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni’s team SEVEN consecutive road results. Kickoff Saturday at Dallas is at 6:30p MT, available on Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, with Mark Followill and Warren Barton (ENG) and Raul Guzman and Carlos Ruiz (SPN) on the call.
First-place RSL – led by Captain Chicho Arango and his 13 goals / 8 assists in 14 MLS games thus far – improved to 5-1-1 at home last week with a pair of wins, starting with 2-0 win over visiting Seattle and an amazing comeback in the second of three Rocky Mountain Cup tilts this year against Colorado. For just the fourth time in the Club’s 628-game history, RSL rebounded from an 0-2 deficit to earn the full three points, riding 2-goal/1-assist performances from both Arango and Andrés Gómez to defeat the Rapids 5-3 before a standing-room only crowd of 20,728.
RSL arrives in Texas this weekend riding an active 10-game unbeaten run (seven wins, three draws) dating back to March 9 at home, a stretch that has seen one of Major League Soccer’s staunchest defenses (Cincinnati, Minnesota, Houston, Columbus, Charlotte) notch five clean sheets during this period. During the current MLS run, RSL has outscored opponents 22-9, scoring first in six of the 10 matches and hammering home five game-winning goals in the final 15 minutes of matches.
Off to the best start in Club history with 28 points from 14 matches (exceeding both 2016 and 2014), RSL has ascended to the top of the Western Conference for its latest first-place bragging rights in the calendar since April 30, 2016, and the latest solo No. 1 in the West since August 2013. This week’s back-to-back road contests precede the June 1 match against Austin FC, just the fourth of four America First Field matches for RSL from mid-April to mid-June, the Claret-and-Cobalt playing eight of 12 away from home during that span, including the trip to Dallas and a midweek rematch at Seattle. RSL will then enjoy a much-needed early June 8 international bye weekend prior to again traveling to Montreal and Kansas City on June 15/19 to wrap up the circuitous gauntlet.
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