Real Salt Lake needed a win to maintain any semblance of a push for a Western Conference playoff spot tonight against FC Cincinnati, led by former-potential-RSL-coach Pat Noonan.
They didn’t do that.
Instead, what we saw was RSL getting two favorable — and correct — VAR calls in their favor, and they still managed to implode in the first half. RSL opened the scoring in the first half with a really nice Maikel Chang goal, getting on the end of a great Jefferson Savarino cross from the right wing. It was exactly what you’d hope for from Savarino playing wide, which he didn’t have opportunity to do much in the match.