Real Salt Lake’s win over LA Galaxy featured some of the best soccer we’ve seen at Rio Tinto Stadium since probably 2013, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t talk about it in some depth.
Having shaped itself as a creative, attack-minded team, it would be easy for us to look at RSL and see as a tactic-less arrangement of very good players. But as we’ve so often seen, that’s not enough to win matches with any regularity.
So with that in mind, I was reading through Mike Petke’s post-match quotes from Saturday.