A Real Salt Lake blog, 2011–2013
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The final season match approaches, and it looks like to fulfill our expectations, we're going to have to show a set of Portland supporters exactly who we are and why we're contending for the MLS Cup. See, Portland, managing only a draw…
As the league expands, we can hear the groans and aches from across the nation as managers are forced into picking players they want to keep — implying, of course, that there's plenty of dead wood all over — and picking which players they…
Fate is a cruel mistress, isn’t it? We’re winless in five, and in the process, we’ve dropped a grand total of 14 relatively easy points because of our inability to play our beautiful game. We’re sitting at 52 points and will need a win to…
The day’s approaching when we’ll play our final home game of the season and we can start looking back at our regular season, shaking our heads, and moving on. First, though, we’ve got an all-important match in Colorado to contend with. I…
Two days and we’ll be up against our Rocky Mountain foes, but the look of our side isn’t entirely clear yet — so, let’s go through who we know we’ll have, who we might have, and what we might see. Starting players that are definitely out…
What is there to say today? The short is answer is something like this: "Not much." I suppose a look at the internationals is in order, and while I haven't watched any of them (yet! — I've got the USMNT match recorded and ready, and had I…
I think we're all still reeling from our fourth loss in four matches (which, incidentally, doesn't sound so bad if you describe it as our fourth loss in nine matches. Yeah.), so I thought I'd issue just a short one today and touch on a…
A day on and it's still a bit hard to take that loss against Chicago Fire, but it's essential to remember that there were some great things that came from that match. I'd like to touch on a few of those briefly, but first, a spot of news…
With the match against the Fire impending (and with it the glorious return of one Javier Morales), I thought it might be apt to discuss a bit what our strongest lineup might look like — particularly as we may be playing something very…
Having had some time to stew over that regrettable 4-1 loss to D.C. United by the hand of De Rosario, it doesn’t seem quite so bad. That is, the loss was bad, but it was hardly world-ending, and it doesn’t necessitate that the entirety of…