May 25, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
FC Dallas News Release
FRISCO, Texas – FC Dallas (3-6-4, 13 points) settled for a point after a 3-3 draw with first-place Real Salt Lake (8-2-5, 29 points) Saturday night at Toyota Stadium.
DE MUTRIKU PARA DALLAS
After several injuries at the beginning of the season, midfielder Asier Illarramendi returned to the starting lineup tonight. Illarra scored FC Dallas’ first goal right before the end of the first half and assisted Paul Arriola’s first goal of the season. This was Illarra’s second goal of the season and his first game with a goal and an assist for FC Dallas. The goal was also Dallas’ third set piece goal of the season.
2 GOALS IN 2 GAMES FOR PATRICKSON
Midfielder Patrickson Delgado scored his first regular season goal and his second overall of the season. The Ibarra, Ecuador, native scored his first professional goal in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Round of 16 match against the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
WELCOME BACK CAPI
After being out for the last three matches due to a calf injury, FC Dallas captain Paul Arriola returned to the starting lineup and played 66 minutes. Arriola scored his first goal of the season in the 59th minute of the match to give Dallas a three-goal advantage.
RECORD AGAINST RSL
Dallas is now 23-14-12 all-time against Real Salt Lake and 13-2-7 versus Salt Lake at Toyota Stadium.
UNBEATEN STREAK
FC Dallas is unbeaten in the last five home matches across all competitions, in addition to being unbeaten in the last five games overall.
UP NEXT: A WEEK IN THE SUNSHINE STATE
FC Dallas will play its first MLS midweek game of the season versus the LA Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park on Wednesday, May 29. The match will kick off at 9:30PM CT. Dallas will remain in Los Angeles for its match on Saturday, June 1 versus LAFC at BMO Stadium. The match will kick off at 9:30PM CT.
Both matches will air on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, the FC Dallas app in Spanish and English, and Talk Radio 1190 AM in English.
Lineups
FC Dallas – Maarten Paes; Sam Junqua, Nkosi Tafari, Sebastien Ibeagha; Marco Farfan (Dante Sealy – 66′), Asier Illarramendi, Liam Fraser (Nolan Norris – 80′), Ema Twumasi; Patrickson Delgado (Sebastian Lletget – 88′), Paul Arriola (Bernard Kamungo – 66′), Petar Musa.
Substitutes not used – Jimmy Maurer, Omar González, Carl Sainté, Tsiki Ntsabeleng, Logan Farrington.
Real Salt Lake – Zac MacMath; Diego Luna (Anderson Julio – 62′), Matt Crooks (Maikel Chang – 63′), Andrés Gómez (Fidel Barajas – 63′),…
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