RIO TINTO STADIUM, Sandy, Utah
July 1, 2016 (Week 17, MLS Game #163)
10:30 pm ET (UniMás, MLS LIVE, KMYU)
Two teams who met in one of the wildest games in MLS history come together for the only time this season when Real Salt Lake face D.C. United on Friday evening at Rio Tinto Stadium. Both teams are firmly above the red line in their respective conference. RSL return home off of a 2-0 defeat at FC Dallas, leaving them in third place in the Western Conference. United snapped a two-game winless slide last weekend in a 2-0 home win against the New England Revolution, now tied for fifth place in the East. A year ago, the teams combined for 10 goals – one shy of the single-game MLS record – as United took a 6-4 win at RFK Stadium.
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- Real Salt Lake had their three-game winless streak put to an end in a 2-0 defeat at FC Dallas on Saturday evening.
- D.C. United scored for the first time in two games – but goalkeeper Bill Hamid recorded his third shutout in four starts this season – as United claimed a 2-0 win against the New England Revolution on Saturday evening at RFK Stadium.
- The teams met once a year ago, a wild 6-4 D.C. United win Aug. 1 at RFK Stadium. United equaled their club record for goals in a league game; the 10 total goals were tied for second-most in a game in MLS history.
- United won on their first ever trip to Utah in 2005 – a 3-1 win at Rice-Eccles Stadium – and haven’t won there again. Real are 7-0-1 at home since, including a 3-0 victory at Rio Tinto Stadium in the last meeting there in 2014.
- Real Salt Lake have never won at RFK Stadium. United have won six of the nine league encounters all-time on East Capitol Street, and also claimed a U.S. Open Cup play-in match there in 2010.
REFEREE: Juan Guzman. AR1 (bench): Frank Anderson; AR2 (opposite): Jonathan Johnson; 4th: Baboucarr Jallow
MLS Career: 69 games; FC/gm: 25.3; Y/gm: 3.6; R: 21; pens: 15
SUSPENDED: none
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: RSL: Tony Beltran … DC: Steve Birnbaum, Marcelo Sarvas
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: RSL: Kyle Beckerman, Sunday Stephen … DC: Luciano Acosta, Sean Franklin, Nick DeLeon, Jared Jeffrey
DISABLED LIST: DC: Andrew Dykstra, Chris Korb
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (18 meetings): Real 7 wins, 28 goals … United 7 wins, 30 goals … Ties 4
AT SALT LAKE (9 meetings): Real 7 wins, 19 goals … United 1 win, 7 goals … Ties 1
LAST YEAR (MLS)
8/1: DC 6, RSL 4 (Rolfe 42, 54; Kemp 59; Espindola 63; Kitchen 79; DeLeon 85 – Plata 2; Beckerman 21; Maund 62; Mansally 68)
- This is the only league meeting between the teams this season.
- The teams met once a year ago, a wild 6-4 D.C. United win Aug. 1 at RFK Stadium. United equaled their club record for goals in a league game; the 10 total goals were tied for second-most in a game in MLS history.
- United won on their first ever trip to Utah in 2005 – a 3-1 win at Rice-Eccles Stadium – and haven’t won there again. Real are 7-0-1 at home since, including a 3-0 victory at Rio Tinto Stadium in the last meeting there in 2014.
- Real Salt Lake have never won at RFK Stadium. United have won six of the nine league encounters all-time on East Capitol Street, and also claimed a U.S. Open Cup play-in match there in 2010.
- Coaches record: Ben Olsen vs. RSL: P6 W3 L2 D1 … Jeff Cassar vs. DC: P2 W1 L1 D0
