With nine games gone in 2018, it’s fair to say that Real Salt Lake hasn’t truly impressed us.
They’ve won but a third of those games, and they’ve drawn only a single match — and that’s perhaps the most damning thing about it. But we should also look at our -9 goal differential, which is the joint-worst difference in the league. We’re tied with Montreal Impact for that, having played the same number of games and holding a nearly identical record.
To truly understand how we got here, it would be instructive to look at some of the players that have impressed and compare them to those whose stock has fallen — and in some cases, fairly quickly.