October 1, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (14-7-10, 52 points, 3rd West MLS) winds down its 2024 Major League Soccer regular-season slate Wednesday night at home against Minnesota United FC (13-12-6, 45 points, 8th West), the second match of yet another three-game week ending on Sat., Oct. 5. Wednesday’s 7:30p MT kickoff is available via Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, as Tyler Terens & Kyndra de St Aubin (ENG) provide the call, as will Diego Pessolano and Daniel Chapela (SPN).
Saturday, RSL earned a valuable road point at Austin FC, drawing 2-2, as early second-half goals by MF Matt Crooks and MF Diogo Gonçalves gave RSL a 2-0 lead at Q2 Stadium. Concessions to the home side in the 81st and 89th minute doomed RSL to settle for just the lone point in a very tight West race for home-field advantage in the postseason, improving its 2024 road record to 4-4-8 / 20 points, and extending the current unbeaten streak to three matches.
RSL has already clinched an MLS Cup Playoff spot for the 14th time in the last 17 seasons, and for the fourth consecutive year under the guidance of Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni. The ongoing campaign represents RSL’s eighth 50-point season in Club history – and its first since 2019 – while the 2024 edition of the Claret-and-Cobalt need just six points in its final three matches to establish a new all-time Club record for points in a season, surpassing the 57 accrued in 2012.
This is already the highest-scoring season in Real Salt Lake’s 20 MLS years, with 62 goals through 31 matches, eclipsing the 57 scored in 2013. RSL needs three goals in its final two home games beginning Wednesday to set a new all-time Club home mark and break the 2018 mark of 38 goals on home soil.
Real Salt Lake v Minnesota United FC – MLS Matchday 36
America First Field – Sandy, UT
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 – 7:30p MT
Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass / KSL Sports Zone Radio
CONGESTED WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYOFF RACE PICKING UP STEAM ::
RSL is one of eight Western Conference teams separated by just seven points currently occupying seeds 2 through 9 in the West playoff race, chasing first-place LA Galaxy (17-7-7, 58 points / 31 games played). In pursuit of a top-four seed and home-field advantage in the first-round, best-of-three opening series of the MLS Cup Playoffs, as well as a potential Conference title and/or a berth in the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup, the Utah side plays two of its final three contests of the…
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