When Real Salt Lake squeezed past Los Angeles FC, there was no happier man than Peter Vermes. Without being complacent, Vermes would much have rather faced the six seed Salt Lake than LAFC, a team with rare offensive firepower.
However, after the first leg, Vermes’ Sporting Kansas City could only notch a draw at Salt Lake thanks to a second-half finish from Diego Rubio, cancelling out another sensational Salt Lake playoff strike, this time by Albert Rusnak.
Here are three things we learned from the evenly balanced 1-1 draw.
