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The Salt: Maikel Chang shows he deserves starts, plus more from RSL’s Seattle win

The Salt is a recurring column focused on opinion and analysis on the latest Real Salt Lake news from RSL Soapbox managing editor Matt Montgomery.

RSL’s win on Saturday over Seattle Sounders should perhaps have not been surprising, but I entered the stadium thinking we were going to lose, and it wasn’t going to be pretty.

See, missing Damir Kreilach, not having a creative attacking midfielder, and going forward with a formation that I just didn’t think was working for us — that all combined to give me no small amount of pessimism.

But we all saw (hopefully!