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Preview: Real Monarchs vs. OC Blues

SANDY, Utah (Thursday, September 8, 2016) - Real Monarchs SLC (9-11-6, 32 pts, West #11) look to capitalize on recent home form in its penultimate Rio Tinto Stadium contest of 2016, needing a win Friday night over visiting Orange County Blues to vault itself into postseason contention (7:00 p.m. MT kickoff). Head Coach Freddy Juarez' team boasts an unbeaten 3-0-2 mark in its last five matches to pull itself into the logjam at the bottom of the Western Conference, where five teams within three points of each other battle for the final two playoff seeds.