September 27, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (14-7-9, 51 points, 2nd West MLS) continues its 2024 Major League Soccer regular-season slate Saturday night away at Austin FC (9-13-8, 35 points, 11th West), the first match of yet another three-game week ending on Sat., Oct. 5. Saturday’s 6:30p MT kickoff is available via Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, as Max Bretos & Brian Dunseth (ENG) provide the call, as will Pablo Ramirez and Jesus Bracamontes (SPN).
The point captured in last Saturday’s 3-3 home draw for RSL 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. Last Wednesday’s 3-2 home win over FC Dallas secured 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 seven points in its final four matches to establish a new all-time Club record for points in a season, surpassing the 57 accrued in 2012.
In its last visit to Austin, RSL won 2-1 in June of 2023, paced by a Rubio Rubin double, the currently on-loan Guatemalan international exacting a modicum of revenge for his 53rd-minute red card received in RSL’s single-elimination postseason loss at Austin in the 2022 MLS Cup Playoffs. RSL ran out to a 2-0 lead in that match, paced by a Sergio Cordova brace, but dropped the penalty-kick tiebreaker decision after 120 minutes, Austin forcing the 2-2 after regulation with a PK conversion in second-half stoppage time.
RSL defeated Austin, 5-1, in the teams’ previous meeting this season, back on June 1 at America First Field in Sandy. Led by Captain Chicho Arango’s second hat trick of the season and the first of two Anderson Julio braces in 2024, RSL held a 4-0 lead at halftime. An RSL attacker has scored two or more goals in three of the last four meetings with Austin dating back to that playoff battle in late 2022.
Real Salt Lake @ Austin FC – MLS Matchday 35
Q2 Stadium – Austin, TX
Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 – 6:30p 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 nine 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…
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