June 21, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (10-2-7 / 37 points / 1st West) continues its 2024 MLS campaign at home this weekend against the LA Galaxy (9-3-7 / 34 points / 3rd West), looking to extend its first-place lead atop the MLS Western Conference and stretch its Club-record overall single-season unbeaten run to 16 games, as Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni’s team looks to improve upon its 6-1-1 / 19-point home mark thus far in 2024. Kickoff Saturday in Sandy is at 7:30p MT, available on Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, with Max Bretos and Brian Dunseth (ENG) and Pablo Ramirez and Jesus Bracamontes (SPN) on the call from America First Field.
First-place RSL now kicks off a three-game homestand Saturday against LA Galaxy, one of two teams within five points of RSL. Wednesday’s dramatic 4-3 win at Kansas City was the eighth road match for RSL out of 12 games played since mid-April, wrapping up a circuitous gauntlet that saw RSL post a 4-0-0 mark at home and a 3-1-4 record away, including the Open Cup loss in Albuquerque. Saturday’s contest against the Galaxy is 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).
RSL – led by Captain Chicho Arango and his 16 goals / 10 assists in 19 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 15-game unbeaten run (nine wins, six draws) dating back to March 9 at home. During the current MLS run, RSL has outscored opponents 35-17, scoring first in eight of the 15 matches and hammering home six game-winning goals in the final 15 minutes of matches, as well as two extremely late stoppage-time equalizers.
In the Club’s last home 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 history it scored four goals in a half. Arango – who opened the day with a stunning 63-yard goal from beyond midfield – completed his hat trick midway through the second half, the Colombian Captain’s second three-goal performance of the season, making him just the second player in RSL history with multiple hat tricks (two in 36 MLS…
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