As Real Salt Lake crushed Toronto FC, 3-zip, on Saturday afternoon at Rio Tinto Stadium, one word kept emerging as the best to describe what was happening on the pitch for the home team. The same word that’s been most fitting for a couple of seasons now.
On this particular occasion, RSL was on the more positive end of both of those words, so much so that worthwhile change and consistency stuck their collective nose just over the horizon. Was it Pinocchio’s elongation, just another fib?
What emboldened him was this: RSL scored first on a sweet cross from Albert Rusnak to Damir Kreilach and then … Sebastian Saucedo, a youngster at 22, took matters onto his own feet, blasting a screamer from 30 yards out for a two-goal lead midway through the first half.