Real Salt Lake Returns to Action at Home Wednesday v Houston Dynamo

July 2, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release

SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake (10-3-7 / 37 points / 3rd West) resumes its 2024 MLS campaign at home with two games this week, starting off with Wednesday’s Independence Day Fireworks Celebration Wednesday against the Houston Dynamo (8-6-6 / 30 points / 6th West). RSL will host Atlanta on Saturday, the back-to-back home games critical as RSL seeks to remain in both MLS Supporters Shield and Western Conference top-seed contention. Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni’s team will look to rebound from its June 22 home loss to LA Galaxy, which snapped a Club-record 15-game unbeaten run, and improve upon its 6-2-1 / 19-point home mark thus far in 2024. Kickoff Wednesday in Sandy is at 7:30p MT, available on Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, with Max Bretos and Brian Dunseth (ENG) and Francisco X. Rivera and Martin Zuniga (SPN) on the call from America First Field.

RSL – now three points shy of both LAFC and the LA Galaxy in the race for Western Conference supremacy -follows up this week’s home games on July 3 (Houston) and July 6 (Atlanta) with a three-game road week starting 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), featuring both Captain Chicho Arango and Homegrown Justen Glad.

The 2024 Leagues Cup begins with an August 1 home game vs. Atlas prior to an August 5 trip to Houston. RSL and Houston faced off on a Club-record six occasions last year, with a pair of regular-season matches followed up by the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Semifinal and an intense three-game first-round playoff series, featuring two shootouts. The Dynamo eliminated RSL in both the Open Cup and the 2023 MLS postseason.

Real Salt Lake v Houston Dynamo – MLS Matchday 24

America First Field – Sandy, UT

Wednesday, July 3, 2024 – 7:30p MT

STREAK SNAPPED

Last time out, RSL lost an MLS match for the first time since March 9, falling at home 0-1 to the LA Galaxy in a match marred by Chicho Arango’s head injury just 16 minutes into the game. RSL’s 15-game MLS unbeaten run established a new record for the Club’s longest single-season streak in team history – while also matching the Portland Timbers (2013, 2018) and Colorado Rapids (2016) for the second-longest in MLS regular-season history (FC Dallas’ 19 games unbeaten in 2010). In RSL’s 20-season history, RSL also enjoyed a 16-game run from 2013 into 2014 (including a 12-game…