June 18, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (9-2-7 / 34 points / 1st West) continues its 2024 MLS campaign on the road this Wednesday at Sporting Kansas City (3-10-5 / 14 points / 13th West), looking to extend its first-place lead atop the MLS Western Conference and stretch its overall unbeaten run to a new single-season Club-record of 15 games, as Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni’s team seeks to improve upon its 3-1-6 / 15-point road record – one which also includes an active nine-game road unbeaten run – thus far in 2024. Kickoff Wednesday in Kansas is at 6:30p MT, available on Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, with Tony Husband and Ross Smith (ENG) and Pablo Ramirez and Jesus Bracamontes (SPN) on the call.
First-place RSL returns home this Saturday against LA Galaxy, one of three teams within five points of RSL. The Kansas City trip is the eighth road match for RSL of 12 games played since mid-April, wrapping up a circuitous gauntlet that will see RSL finally staying home for a month, with Saturday’s America First Field match against the Galaxy followed by home games on July 3 (Houston) and July 6 (Atlanta). RSL next travels away on July 13 to Portland, a week that also sees trips to LAFC (July 17) and Colorado (July 20) prior to the 2024 MLS All-Star Game in Columbus (July 24) and the 2024 Leagues Cup (August 1 v Atlas, August 5 at Houston).
Despite Saturday’s scoreless draw in Montreal, RSL Captain Chicho Arango still leads the MLS Golden Boot race with 16 goals in 18 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 Kansas City midweek needing just one goal to match RSL’s single-season scoring record (Alvaro Saborio, 2012), while 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 18 MLS games thus far, three ahead of D.C. United’s Christian Benteke in MLS Golden Boot pursuit – returns to MLS action with an active 14-game unbeaten run (eight wins, six 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 14 matches and hammering home five game-winning goals in the final 15 minutes of matches, as well as two…
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