As we prepare ourselves for Real Salt Lake’s match against LAFC, we might be thinking a lot about “important” thing — tactics, substitution patterns, that sort of thing.
I’m not thinking about that at all. Instead, I’m focused on figuring out who’s going to play, because there aren’t a whole lot of choices to be had. Interestingly, that makes it an interesting thing to talk about. Maybe it’s evidence that choice is an illusion. I don’t know.
In the tradition of the Real Salt Lake lineup graphic that pops up on Twitter and Instagram before matches, here’s a list of the players I think could play.