A Real Salt Lake blog, 2011–2013
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Somehow, I haven't written anything here about Friday's match yet. We all knew exactly how it went, and to be honest, that might have been the best bet for how it was going to go forward. Nil-nil? I'm not surprised. I'm also not surprised…
Well, that wraps up the regular season. A goalless draw to end it all — it's almost fitting, isn't it? Anyhow, parting is such sweet sorrow and all that, but we're only saying goodbye to the regular season in order to see its evolved form:…
The interminable pain of losing is wrenching, but it doesn't compare to the pain of drawing and dropping out of the group stages. Losing sure would have hurt, but there's something worse about playing well and not winning. And let's be…
It feels good to win. It doesn't feel so good to lose. How, then, does it feel to draw? Confusing. Disrupting. I'm not really sure how I feel anymore. Where am I? What are we doing? Oh, never mind. It's not that bad. Alas, that draw was a…
How good is he? How good are we? Down 1-0 and scrambling, we could've fallen. Hard. In the first 25 minutes, we weren't good enough. LA Galaxy, obviously quite good, were shooting from distance and getting the time and space they needed.…
Some wins are better than others. I don't know that this one is, but it certainly felt right, and if we're talking pure, unadulterated scoreline, this was the best we've had this season. There were too many positives to count. Actually, I…
When did we last score two goals from set pieces in the same match? This is a genuine question. I can't remember the last time we saw two rather brilliant set pieces within a month of each other, let alone in the same match. If we glean…
Few sensations beat that of the late, last-gasp win. It is as unique a feeling as any, incomparable in most sporting efforts. No delays, no time-outs, nothing: Just a slalom to the final whistle, and along the way, a goal. It wasn't the…
That was, in a word, disappointing. But late losses like those are always that way, and this one is no exception. It was a night when our spectacular goalkeeper saved the match over and over again, but when it came to the end of affairs, a…
Well, well! After my weekend absence, I've returned with some match notes and ramblings. Normal service, it seems, has resumed. And after this weekend, it seems perhaps that our form is returning to some sense of normalcy as we ease into…