SANDY, Utah (Saturday, October 24, 2015) – Real Salt Lake culminates the current MLS regular season with a #DecisionDay trip to the Pacific Northwest on Sunday, visiting Western Conference rival Seattle Sounders FC in the club’s 2015 finale. Sunday’s match at Century Link Field in downtown Seattle is part of Major League Soccer’s concurrent 5:00 p.m. MT kickoffs in match-week 34, with pre-game coverage airing live ESPN700 AM at 4:00 p.m. MT, while KMYU (2.2 air, 12 satellite, 22/643 Comcast) presents the game in Utah and surrounding states beginning at 4:30.
Sunday’s match is RSL’s last until next February, when Head Coach Jeff Cassar’s club kicks off a home-and-away series against Liga MX side Tigres, based in Monterrey, Mexico. RSL captured the third overall seed in the 2015/16 CONCACAF Group G Quarterfinal stage with last Tuesday’s 1-0 home win over Municipal, as MF Javier Morales set up DF Jamison Olave on a corner kick header. Morales – RSL’s leader in goals (8) and assists (11) in this 2015 MLS season – has assisted on each of the last four CCL goals by RSL, setting up FW Joao Plata, FW Olmes Garcia and FW Juan Manuel Martinez to make just one goal conceded by GKs Nick Rimando and Jeff Attinella stand up against both Municipal (Guatemala) and Santa Tecla FC (El Salvador).
How to Follow Real Salt Lake at Seattle Sounders FC
- Coverage Begins: 4:30 p.m. MT
- TV: KMYU – David James & Brian Dunseth
- English Radio: 100.7 FM (4:00 p.m. MT) – Bill Riley, Jeremy Horton & Brian Kamler
- Spanish Radio: 102.3 La Gran D FM / 1600 AM – Nelson Moran & Fernando Hortal
- Online: The @RealSaltLake Twitter feed provides updates
Game Guide for Sunday’s RSL at Seattle Matchup Now Available Online
Following is the link to the Adobe PDF version of the MLS Game Guide in advance of Sunday’s contest between Real Salt Lake and Seattle.
Click here to download the PDF version of the MLS Game Guide for Sunday’s RSL at Seattle matchup
RSL has not won at Century Link Field in Seattle since May, 2012, a 1-0 win that saw Luis Gil set up Fabian Espindola with the game-winner. All-time, RSL is just 2-6-3 against the Sounders in Seattle, outscored 18-6 by the home side. On artificial turf, RSL owns a dismal 8-22-6 all-time record, including nine consecutive matches the last two seasons without a win (0-7-2), dating back to a 1-0 road win at Portland in the 2013 West Finals.
At Rio Tinto Stadium this season, RSL was 12-4-6 across all competitions, including a trio of home wins in the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Since the beginning of 2008, RSL boasts a 98-22-39 mark in its last 159 home games (all comps) in that span, during which it has outscored opponents by 168 goals (283/115), with a 77-17-36 regular-season mark (230/93), an 8-1-1 CCL record (20/6), 5-2-2 in playoffs (11/4) and an 8-2-0 ledger in the Open Cup (21/10).
