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Real Salt Lake Dominates 4-1 over L.A. Galaxy

March 27, 2011 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release


SANDY, Utah - Real Salt Lake shot out of the gates in tonight's marquee match-up against the Los Angeles Galaxy and never looked back, racking up a three-goal lead by halftime en route to a 4-1 victory. A new record crowd of 20,507 at Rio Tinto Stadium witnessed Real Salt Lake (2-0-0, 6 pts.) set the tone for the Western Conference race against the Galaxy (1-1-1, 4 pts.) and extend it dominance in Sandy, with tonight's result pushing the team's MLS-record home undefeated streak to 26 games (18-0-8). The result also pushed RSL's overall regular season unbeaten mark to 16 games, which now stands alone as the second-longest such run in MLS history.

The record audience in Sandy barely had time to take its seats before MF Andy Williams finished off a cross from FW Paulo Jr. at the far right post to put the Galaxy on its heels just 84 second into the match. The diminutive Brazilian striker was also involved on RSL's second goal in the 10th minute when he drew a foul in the area that set up MF Javier Morales' penalty kick conversion, which he finished past a wrong-footed Galaxy GK Josh Saunders with a stutter-step delivery into the lower right corner Morales wasn't done, as the Argentine finished with aplomb from the corner of the area, rocketing a shot into the far upper 90 in the 41st minute to all but finish things before the halftime whistle blew.

After playing creator in the first half, Paulo Jr. would get one of his own in the 68th minute, his tap-in at the far post off of fellow striker Fabian Espindola's low cross from the left flank sealing the deal. Galaxy FW Juan Pablo Angel would notch his first goal in a Galaxy uniform off of a MF David Beckham free kick in the 80th minute, but it was too-little-too-late for the visitors by that point as RSL cruised to the win in front of its raucous home crowd.

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