Wasatch Soccer Sentinel
Real Salt Lake has had a season of twists and turns to this point, going from a team who couldn't score and couldn't defend, to a team that couldn't score and could defend, to a team that could score and couldn't defend.
And that's all in the course of this 90-minute match!
OK, not quite. But Real Salt Lake's 4-3 victory over Portland Timbers was a really lovely win, and it came with a sense of real spectacularity to it. It featured everything: Danny Musovski scoring in back-to-back U.S. Open Cup matches, Maikel Chang proving himself one of RSL's deadliest attacking forces with a brace, and Andrés Gómez once again scoring an absolutely beautiful goal.
It's a match that featured Gavin Beavers making spectacular saves. It also featured Gavin Beavers trying to play out of the back and Pablo Ruiz making a mess of it. (I know there's a tendency out there to blame Beavers for that play, but that move out of the back we see week-in, week-out across the top leagues — this was executed poorly, but I don't think that's entirely the fault of the goalkeeper. This is a classic "when playing it out of the back goes wrong" clip.)
