Wasatch Soccer Sentinel
Real Salt Lake are coming of an embarrassing loss to bottom of the table San Jose Earthquakes. With another home game, RSL need to pick up points, but the New England Revolution just dismantled Montreal 5-0 on the road, so this could be a tough test for Real.
The whole attack
Selling Andres Gomes made sense. It was insane money and the team should be one with buys young, develops players, then makes a profit. But when the first game after he’s sold is a loss to the worst team in the league, it feels like a bad omen.
Chicho leaving in the first half of that game with an injury also feels like a bad omen.
New England starting to get better under Caleb Porter feels like a bad omen.
So RSL should win this one.
The return of Diego Luna to the starting XI is massive. Luna brings a calmness to his game that few other players on the team have. As Diogo Gonçalves settles into the team, playing along side Luna should help. While Chicho is listed as questionable, if he’s able to play for any stretch at all, that’s a good boost to the attack. Who starts up top is the biggest question around this game, but they simply have to do better than what we saw last weekend.
