A Real Salt Lake blog, 2011–2013
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How many times, I wonder, are we going to go through this nonsense? Last night, we looked a side good for a win or perhaps a draw — anything, really, to stop the slide — until a player was sent off and we simply collapsed. It's hard to…
A third consecutive loss is never a positive thing, and it’s only the second instance in Kreis’s managerial career of such a streak — but for all the problems that come with it, we needn’t hang our heads just yet. Remember that Javier…
Back-to-back losses by three goals, two games in which we allowed a player to score a hattrick, another bump in the season road: Call it what you will, but last night’s 3-0 loss against the Chicago Fire came on the back of an abject…
Well, that backfired, didn’t it? Of course, I’m talking about Jason Kreis’s opting to experiment with the lineup against a D.C. side we would have been able to beat easily with a full-strength lineup. I understand the reasoning, though:…
It was a match of fiscal efficiency against fiscal irresponsibility: New York with their well-paid designated players, Real Salt Lake with their modest salary statement well below cap as a small market team. In the end, there was only one…
Sometimes, you have to shake your head at the things that inexplicably go wrong. When you’re in on goal and the goalkeeper makes a brilliant save, when the goalkeeper’s well out of goal but a defender heads it out of the way, when... Oh,…
Going into yesterday's match against the league's hottest (or perhaps second-hottest, or even more perhaps tied-for-hottest) club — the Seattle Sounders — things looked a bit dreary and doomtastic. Once we scored, things were looking up a…
Much thanks again to Taylor Fugate (whom I met today!) and the RSL Show, who allowed me the use of the photograph you see above. Classy lads! What a match! That one had it all, didn’t it? Goals, assists, new players, injury returns,…
A single rush of blood to the head is all it takes to shift a match, to turn its on its head, to unsettle a squad of players: One red card can change everything. One moment of slight madness from Nat Borchers and an entire match was blown…
Losses are never particularly easy to take as an RSL fan, and losses on the road are nothing particularly new. But something seemed more than just amiss against Houston, and while you can chalk some of it up to confidence and form, there…