October 4, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake (14-7-11, 53 points, t-3rd West MLS) winds down its 2024 Major League Soccer regular-season slate Saturday night in the Bay Area at San Jose Earthquakes (6-23-3, 21 points, 14th West), the third and final match of yet another three-game week. Saturday’s 8:30p MT kickoff is available via Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, as Nate Bukaty & Devon Kerr (ENG) provide the call, as will Carlos Mauricio Ramirez and Martin Zuniga (SPN).
RSL arrives in San Jose this weekend looking to exact revenge for a 2-0 Earthquakes win at America First Field in Utah back on August 24, the Claret-and-Cobalt’s first match following an extended hiatus after its Leagues Cup elimination 19 days earlier. The full three points available Saturday at PayPal Park are extremely valuable to RSL in a very tight Western Conference race for a top-four finish and home-field advantage in the MLS Cup Playoffs. RSL’s 2024 road record is currently 4-4-8 / 20 points, and a win Saturday would allow RSL to complete its second-highest road point total in 20 MLS seasons, trailing only last year’s 28-point mark.
Wednesday, RSL drew 0-0 with visiting Minnesota as GK Zac MacMath and the RSL rearguard collectively managed its first clean sheet since August 31. The point earned midweek extended RSL’s active unbeaten run to four games; however, the streak started with a Sept. 18 win and has seen RSL draw in three consecutive contests, failing to win at least once in back-to-back home matches for the first time in 15 months.
Homegrown DF Justen Glad started yet again and played the full 90 minutes, the 27-year-old moving ahead of Tony Beltran and into third-place all-time on the Club’s MLS minutes ranker, his 20,797 minutes played trailing only RSL legends Kyle Beckerman (29,940) and Nick Rimando (33,048). With appearances in the Club’s final two reg. season games – Saturday at San Jose and Decision Day, Sat., Oct. 19 at home against Vancouver, Glad will surpass Javier Morales and move into the Club’s top five in MLS games played all-time. Last week in Austin, the Tucson native moved past Morales, Beltran and Chris Wingert into third all-time in MLS games started (now 232 and counting).
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…
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