“This is where teams have to have found their form and are hopefully clicking at this point in the season,” said Justen Glad. “This is it.”
It might seem like there’s plenty of time left in RSL’s 2018 regular season with 12 matches remaining, but roughly 65 percent of the season is in the books, and RSL is clinging to one of the six playoff slots in the air-tight Western Conference race.
Only five points currently separate sixth-place RSL and 10th-place Seattle. So with back-to-back home matches on tap for RSL, starting Saturday evening against the scuffling Chicago Fire at Rio Tinto Stadium, there isn’t really any room for dropped points if the club is to stay above the red line.