July 5, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake (11-3-7 / 40 points / 2nd West) remains at home for the second of two games this week, now hosting Atlanta United Saturday night following Wednesday’s 3-2 win over Houston. These back-to-back home games kick off a five-game July 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 improve upon its 7-2-1 / 22-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 Diego Pessolano and Daniel Chapela (SPN) on the call from America First Field.
RSL – now three points shy of LAFC, but three points ahead of the LA Galaxy in the race for Western Conference supremacy – follows up this week’s home games 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.
Wednesday, RSL saw dynamic young Colombian Andrés Gómez lead the charge, scoring a first-half equalizer and assisting on goals by both Diego Luna and Braian Ojeda. Gómez is now top-10 in MLS with both 11 goals and nine assists, while Luna has added four goals and nine assists on the year. Ojeda’s game-winner marked his first goal in 63 games with RSL since arriving in late summer 2022.
Real Salt Lake v Atlanta United – MLS Matchday 25
America First Field – Sandy, UT
Saturday, July 6, 2024 – 7:30p MT
STREAK SNAPPED
Back on June 22, 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 single-season run in 2014), and a Club-record 18-game unbeaten streak from July 2010 to April 2011 (2010 includes a 14-game single-season run, RSL’s previous best) …
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