SANDY, Utah (Monday, June 27, 2016) – Real Salt Lake hosts Seattle Sounders FC Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. MT in Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Fifth Round action, with 14 MLS clubs comprising the remaining 16 teams still standing in the 103rd edition of U.S. Soccer’s longest ongoing tourney.
RSL continues its “Summer of Soccer” in Sandy, Head Coach Jeff Cassar’s team (8-5-3, 27 points, 3rd-best in MLS w/ a 1.69 points-per-game average) resuming action at its vaunted Rio Tinto Stadium home, where RSL is unbeaten in eight games all competitions this season (5-0-3 in MLS, CCL and Open Cup), with Tuesday the fourth out of eight home games in 10 overall from mid-June to the end of July following the recent install of a new natural grass surface.