RSL made the playoffs with help from the Houston Dynamo. It beat LAFC on the road when it wasn’t favored to win. And it came away with a tie in the first leg of the Western Conference Finals agains the best team in the conference.
But on Sunday in at Children’s Mercy Park, RSL succumbed to SKC in a 4-2 loss. Sporting will play the Portland Timbers in the conference finals, and Real is left to wonder what could have been.
Two shots by Nick Besler and Jefferson Savarino just missed the side of the goal in the final six minutes of regulation as RSL searched relentlessly for the tying goal that would left it into the conference finals.