June 14, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (9-2-6 / 33 points / 1st West) resumes its 2024 MLS campaign on the road this weekend at CF Montreal (4-7-5 / 17 points / 12th East) Saturday evening, looking to extend its first-place lead atop the MLS Western Conference and stretch its overall unbeaten run to a Club-record-tying 14 games, as Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni’s team seeks to improve upon its 3-1-5 / 14-point road record – one which also includes an active eight-game road unbeaten run – thus far in 2024. Kickoff Saturday in Quebec is at 5:30p MT, available on Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, with Joe Tolleson and Greg Sutton (ENG), Moises Linares and Pablo Marino (SPN) and Frederic Lord and Vincent Destouches (FRN) on the call.
First-place RSL now enters the second half of its 2024 campaign – RSL’s 20th in Major League Soccer, now celebrating its 29th season – looking to capitalize on its best start in Club history, with 33 points from 17 matches from Feb. 21 until now. With a win Saturday in Montreal, RSL would exceed the point totals but match wins for its 2010 (34 pts) and 2013 (33 pts) iterations, each of whom registered its 10th wins of the season in MLS game No. 18.
RSL Captain Chicho Arango leads the MLS Golden Boot race with 16 goals in 17 games, adding nine assists to keep pace with Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi, as each boasts a League-leading 25 goal contributions this season. Arango arrives in Montreal needing just one goal to match RSL’s single-season scoring record (Alvaro Saborio, 2012), also needing just one assist to become the third RSL player ever to accumulate 10+ goals and 10+ assists in a single season, joining Albert Rusnák (11g/11a in 2021) and Jeff Cunningham (16g / 11a in 2006).
RSL – led by Arango and his 16 goals / 9 assists in 17 MLS games thus far, three ahead of D.C. United’s Christian Benteke in the MLS Golden Boot race – returns to MLS action with an active 13-game unbeaten run (eight wins, five draws) dating back to March 9 at home. During the current MLS run, RSL has outscored opponents 31-14, scoring first in seven of the 13 matches and hammering home five game-winning goals in the final 15 minutes of matches as well as two extremely late stoppage-time equalizers.
In the Club’s last match back on June 1, RSL thrashed Austin FC, 5-1, as both Arango and FW Anderson Julio each scored twice in the first half for a 4-0 halftime lead, just the third time in RSL…
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