Coach Mike Petke revealed after the game that the club’s Liberian designated player will miss “six to eight weeks” with a quad injury he suffered two weeks ago. You don’t have to be a doctor to recognize that timeline does not bode well for RSL.
Before Johnson’s injury, he had scored three goals in his last 112 minutes. He was — and still is — the team’s leading scorer with eight goals. It seemed that after a somewhat rocky start, he was finally starting to get into a groove.
Going into Saturday against the Union, Johnson had scored four of Salt Lake’s five goals in the past six games.