A Real Salt Lake blog, 2011–2013
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For the first time in what seems like a long time, I'm not unhappy with a draw. Far from unhappy, actually. Perhaps it was the nature of our three-game losing skid, wherein anything that wasn't another loss seems like, well, a win. I mean,…
We watched last night as the walls crumbled around our team; our style, spirit, verve all rather absent as we conceded two goals and, ultimately, the match. Not just that match: Our third consecutive match. Has there been a team so…
If I'm not mistaken, it does seem this Real Salt Lake side has a weakness or two. Have we been this error-prone at home in some time? I'm inclined to say no. But error-prone we are, and our last two home matches have showed that quite…
Well, that was some way for our boys to start off their big home stand, wasn't it? That was, no doubt, one of the most subpar performances from this team in some time. Sure, the first, what, 20 minutes were excellent. Two early goals, and…
That wasn't so bad, now was it? Revenge came swiftly for the boys in Claret and Cobalt, and just like that, the pain of the last three weeks — no matches following an especially lackluster performance produced some existential pain to…
Finally, things are returning to normal. Today's reserves match proves it: There's soccer again — and not just your internationals, but real, genuine, club football. The heavens be praised; it's back! Less important than that — but only…
As fans, we're quite allowed to be overconfident about our team's abilities on the pitch. This is especially true of times in which our team is facing lower league opponents. It is only natural that a side that is among the best in the…
And so it was that our heroes of the day engaged in the most daring of escapes, finding themselves backed against the wall by the irritation of Blas Perez and the flank play of those stripy Texan villains. When it seemed like they simply…
It was only a friendly, I keep telling myself. It was only a friendly. 89 minutes in, it was still only a friendly. 90 minutes gone, it was still only a friendly. But that last-gasp goal from BYU — 89 gone, stoppage to play — hurt. It…
And so it was that Real Salt Lake did fell the mighty Sounders, the plucky underdog quite certainly snatching the points against a rather hapless Seattle side. The match, teetering on a knife point for 50 minutes, was finely poised to…