Real Salt Lake Concludes Double-Game Roadtrip Saturday at LA Galaxy

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Real Salt Lake Concludes Double-Game Roadtrip Saturday at LA Galaxy

May 30, 2025 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
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HERRIMAN, Utah - Real Salt Lake (4-9-3, 15 points, 12th West / 23rd Shield) concludes its second three-game week of the 2025 MLS season with Saturday's 8:30p MT kickoff at defending MLS Cup champion LA Galaxy (0-12-4, 4 points, 15th West / 30th Shield). RSL looks to snap an active six-game winless run dating back to April 26 with the second of two road matches this week, ahead of the upcoming FIFA international break. Saturday's contest is available via Apple TV+ / MLS Season Pass, with Neil Sika and Lloyd Sam (ENG) on the call, as are Jose Bauz and Ivan Kasanzew (SPN).

This week's road double concludes a run that sees RSL play seven of 10 overall away from April 12 - May 31, with Saturday's match at Dignity Health Sports Park preceding an upcoming America First Field stretch that will see RSL host nine of 11 at home from mid-June to early August, including a trio of 2025 Leagues Cup matches. RSL next hosts D.C. United on Utah soil on Sat., June 14 (7:30p MT kickoff - tickets at www.RSL.com/tickets) to celebrate Club legend Nick Rimando and his 2025 National Soccer Hall of Fame induction.

Wednesday in Austin, Real Salt Lake rebound from back-to-back losses for the fourth time this season with a 1-1 draw at Q2 Stadium, the Utah side going ahead in the 67th minute on FW William Agada's first Claret-and-Cobalt goal. Agada - the MLS veteran striker who arrived on transfer deadline day from Sporting Kansas City - found the back of the net on a set piece, heading home a Diego Luna free kick. However, for the second consecutive match, RSL conceded a 90th-minute goal, forcing Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni's side to split the points.

RSL is now winless in six consecutive matches - last winning at San Diego on April 26, by a 3-1 scoreline - and has lost four matches this year when scoring first, typically a good omen. RSL has now recorded a 38W-8L-14T record when scoring first during the Mastroeni era, with all four RSL victories this season coming when scoring first (Seattle, Houston, LA Galaxy and at San Diego). RSL now owns four losses across all competitions (at home against Herediano / San Diego, away at Nashville, home against Vancouver) when taking the 1-0 lead, along with the May 10 draw at Dallas and Wednesday's deadlock at Austin.

Dropping back-to-back results is also rare during the former two-time USMNT World Cup performer's reign. Since Mastroeni seized the head coaching reins in August, 2021, RSL has dropped consecutive games just 14 times in 157 matches during the Mastroeni era, winning 27 and now drawing 15 in "bounceback" contests.

This three-game week began with RSL dropping a 2-3 decision Saturday at home against MLS Supporters Shield leaders Vancouver in dramatic fashion. America First Field in Sandy was buzzing when RSL scored two goals in the first four minutes of the match, as 18-year-old Zavier Gozo found the back of the net just 50 seconds after the opening whistle. Assisted by RSL and U.S. Men's National Team starlet Diego Luna on the play, Gozo - at just 18 years, 63 days, just 48 hours after graduating high school a week ago Thursday - became the third-youngest scorer in Club history (Luis Gil, Freddy Adu).

When Luna reacted quickly to rebound in the box to put RSL up 2-0 in the fourth minute - for his team-high eighth goal of the year, equaling his 2024 MLS All-Star and MLS Young Player of the Year output - it marked the first time in the Claret-and-Cobalt's now 664-game MLS history over 21 regular seasons that RSL scored twice in the first five minutes, and just the second time EVER that RSL scored twice inside the opening 10 minutes. MLS last saw a team go up 2-0 in the first 300 seconds back in 2018 (New York Red Bulls vs. NYCFC).

However, a resolute Vancouver side had the game back on level terms midway through the first half on a Brian White brace, first scoring on a headed corner kick in the 20th minute, then equalizing from the penalty spot in the 25th after RSL striker William Agada unknowingly had the ball glance off the back of his arm. Deadlocked for another hour-plus, the visiting Whitecaps stole all three points at their former 2021 home with a curling shot far post by Pedro Vite.

The upcoming games to end May gives RSL starlet Diego Luna a chance to add to his team-high eight goals scored and four assists provided this season prior to his June departure, where he will compete for Mauricio Pochettino's U.S. Men's National Team in friendlies on June 7 / 10, and presumably the Stars-and-Stripes' Gold Cup tournament as well. Luna continues to lead RSL with eight goals this season in 15 games played, equaling his entire 2024 total, a campaign which earned him both MLS All-Star and MLS Young Player of the Year honors. Luna joins holding midfielder Braian Ojeda as players to have appeared in all but one of RSL's 16 MLS games this season, each trailing "Iron Man" GK Rafael Cabral, the lone player to have appeared in every minute of the Club's 18 games played across multiple competitions.

June's various international competitions are also expected to affect the availability for U.S. Youth National Team player Zavier Gozo (USA U-20 camp), Polish international Dominik Marczuk (UEFA U-21 tournament) and Australian striker Ari Piol (Socceroos' U-23 tourney).

Recent weeks have seen several RSL players achieve various milestones, as 18-year-old Academy product Zavier Gozo - who graduated with several Academy teammates last Thursday in Herriman - earned his first-ever run of MLS starts, the Eagle Mountain, Utah-native going the full 90 minutes on the right wing in six of the last seven games in place of once-injured Polish international Dominik Marczuk, who returned midway through the second half at Dallas to bolster a short-handed Utah side.

Agada's former Kansas City captain, winger Johnny Russell, became the 223rd player to appear for RSL after the free-agent acquisition arrived in Utah just under a month ago, joining the team on the trips to San Diego and Vancouver but not dressing until draws against Dallas and Portland, finally playing in the 1-0 Rocky Mountain Cup loss at Colorado just over a week ago, as well as Wednesday night in Austin. Second-year D/M Noel Caliskan started and played impressively for the full 90 minutes at right back in each of the last five contests, making his 2025 first-team debuts. The German-born Caliskan was drafted out of Loyola Marymount University in 2023 by the Timbers, for whom he played MLS, Open Cup and MLS NEXT Pro action during his rookie season before signing with Real Monarchs a year ago.

That 3-1 victory at San Diego on April 26 also marked Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni's 100th career coaching win across all competitions for the two Rocky Mountain Cup competitors, RSL (2021-present) and Colorado (2014-17). The former U.S. World Cup stalwart has now amassed 100 wins, 112 losses and 76 draws across all competitions for the Utah/Denver-based sides. Last June in Kansas City, Mastroeni earned his 50th win across all competitions with RSL in a wild 4-3 road decision, with the 2-0 reg. season win over LA Galaxy on April 5 marking his 50th MLS victory with RSL. Since August, 2021, in Utah, Mastroeni's all-time coaching record is now 61-56-40.

Away from home, RSL's 2-5-3 / 9-point road record this season across all competitions has underperformed fifth-year Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni's track record, with each of the last two seasons marking the Claret-and-Cobalt's best road campaigns in team history. The 2023 side posted an 11W-8L-5T away mark across all competitions, a record which includes both that year's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Semifinal loss to Houston, and its road loss and elimination draw in the first and third games of the teams' 2023 Audi MLS Cup Playoff series on the Shell Energy Stadium turf.

A year ago, Mastroeni's men registered the second-most road points in RSL history, with a 5W-4L-8T MLS reg. season mark, one which does NOT includes its heartbreaking, multi-goal Leagues Cup elimination loss to the Dynamo following a home win over Atlas FC.

During each of Pablo's previous three full seasons at the RSL helm, the Club has increased its annual point total (47 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and 59 last year), while increasing its Western Conference table position as well (7th in 2022, 5th in 2023 and 3rd last year). The 2025 campaign features RSL's pursuit of a Conference-best fifth consecutive postseason berth, a seventh in the last eight seasons and its 15th in the last 18 years.

This season, Real Salt Lake returns nearly 21,000 collective minutes played from last year's roster, as the Club looks to build upon a record-setting 2024 campaign, as last year saw RSL advance to the MLS Cup Playoffs for a fourth consecutive occasion, the sixth time in seven seasons (2020 the lone exception), and for the 14th time in the last 17 seasons since first qualifying in 2008 (2015, 2017 the other outliers). The 2024 MLS regular season reached an all-time high of 59 points for RSL, which finished third in the Western Conference and sixth overall in the 29-team MLS shield race, while also establishing a new all-time scoring high of 65 goals.

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