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Game Notes: Sounders FC at Real Salt Lake

May 27, 2011 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
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Part of the pack of contenders in the Western Conference, Seattle Sounders FC must confront its second West foe within a span of three days. Sounders FC tests Real Salt Lake on Saturday night at Rio Tinto Stadium at 6 p.m. PT.

Saturday's game in Sandy, Utah will be aired live on KONG 6/16 and THIS-TV. Rob Stone and Peter Fewing will describe the action.

After this week pace slows to one match per week until Open Cup play begins late next month. Seattle plays at Chicago on June 4.

Sounders FC (4-4-5, 17 points) concluded its three-game home stand on Wednesday night with its first loss in four games as visiting FC Dallas was able to take all three points with an early Brek Shea goal.

Although hit hard by injuries Seattle has fought on, earning points in nine of the last 11 starts to share third in the West table. A stoppage time goal by Jeff Parke produced a 1-nil home win over Sporting Kansas City last Saturday.

No team has proven more formidable at home the past three years than Real Salt Lake. Since moving into Rio Tinto at the end of 2008, RSL has gone 24-1-11. It's been 29 matches and two years since the lone loss, to Kansas City on May 16, 2009, and visitors have managed to score only one goal in four games this season.

Real Salt Lake (5-1-2, 18 points) has the fewest losses in MLS and has at least two games in hand on its West brethren because of postponements due to CONCACAF Champions League action earlier this spring. It was runner-up to Mexico's Monterrey in the final series.

Real Salt Lake and Dallas finished in a scoreless deadlock on Sunday in a match delayed by lightning in the second half.

Seattle and RSL are knotted at 1-1-2 in the regular season series. Both games were drawn in 2010. The teams also met in a 2009 U.S. Open Cup play-in game, won 4-1 at home by Sounders FC.

Saturday's match can also be heard live on 97.3 KIRO FM and La Gran D 99.3 FM.

Official Sounders FC game notes for this week's match against Real Salt Lake are available at http://SoundersFC.com/notes.

Local TV: KONG 6/16

Local Radio: 97.3 KIRO FM

Talent: Rob Stone with Peter Fewing; Erin Mayovsky (sideline)

Pregame Talent: Paul Silvi with Alan Hinton (TV); Matt Johnson with Alan Hinton (radio)

Spanish TV: THIS-TV/KOMO 4.2 (Comcast channel 114)

Talent: Jaime Mendez (play-by-play); Hugo Alcaraz-Cuellar (color)

Spanish Radio: La Gran D 99.3 FM

Talent: Rene Aleman, Victor Hernandez and Noe Menendez

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