Portland, Ore. • There's an explanation for the absence of The Captain.
Real Salt Lake coach Jeff Cassar said Wednesday that RSL midfielder Kyle Beckerman will be held out of on-field activities due to a bone bruise in his left knee. Beckerman, 34, suffered the injury in the first portion of RSL's 2017 preseason rounds in Arizona. He is considered day-to-day, Cassar confirmed.
"I think Kyle's in a really good spot, and [when] I had a great meeting with him I told him that, all I want him to do is on March 4 have his body feeling great," Cassar said after a training session Wednesday in downtown Portland.