We know big changes are inevitably coming to Real Salt Lake, from coaching staff to playing personnel — although forecasting who stays and who goes is a fool’s errand, it seems likely that changes will roll in.
Regardless, speculating about potential tactics and formations to get the best out of the players we have now still retains some value — especially as it gives us some ideas as to who we should keep and who we should perhaps part ways with.
Through the second half of 2016, Real Salt Lake took an approach that was largely symmetrical: You had Burrito Martinez on one side, Joao Plata on the other, and Yura Movsisyan sort of roaming around the middle.