A Real Salt Lake blog, 2011–2013
429 posts, June 2011 to March 2013
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…
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:…
We’re sitting on five consecutive wins and threatening to make it six: While I haven’t been surprised to see that we’re good enough — we all knew that was the case — to near the top of the league, I’d imagine the rest of the league is…
If, by this point, you've not seen Rafa Marquez's quotes regarding his teammates, I'd implore you to do so: http://www.empireofsoccer.com/?p=3618. Marquez quite effectively illustrates a few things about the state of the MLS and about the…
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…
With a win tonight, we would make it five matches won in a row and continue our very loud shout for the Supporters’ Shield. In the way is that team with the vaguely European flair from New Jersey, the New York Red Bulls — but do we have…
Two distinct things for you today: a match preview (that went quickly, didn’t it?) and a bit of a belated analysis of some trends I noticed during the Sporting KC match. Of course, you would be right to assume that I’ll veer around and…
On the back of news that we have only the third four-game winning streak this season (we also have one of the other three, too,) it’s a little distressing that people are stilling writing us off. I don’t mean to refer to anyone in…
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,…