Real Salt Lake pushed their winning streak to 5 straight Saturday night (most in the storied? history of the Salt Lake side) as they put the beating down on the Wiz (worst name in the league) of Kansas City, 4-1 off goals from Espindola, Saborio, Russel and Grabavoy.
The party got started right in the 31st minute as Fabian Espindola put down his third goal of the 2010 campaign off a brilliant set up from elder RSL statesman and consummate pro Andy Williams. Williams received the ball in an advanced position and feigned a couple of shot attempts. As the Kansas City defense started to back off, Williams found Espindola running on the left wing and the RSL striker was able to slot it past KC keeper Jimmy Nielsen's and into the far post netting.
The Wizards looked like they were in for a long night when only three minutes later they were digging an Alvaro Saborio strike out of the back of the net. Espindola got loose on the left wing again and chipped the ball toward Nielsen, who totally fumbled the save. Saborio came flying in and poked it past the beaming blond KC keep.
RSL seemed to be in total control as the half was coming to a close, but a fatal mistake by Nat Borchers allowed the Wizards to sneak back into the match. After Nick Rimando gathered a long ball attempt and played around with it for too long he played it out to Borchers, who also was way too casual with the clearance. Former US national team stand out Josh Wolff pounced on the nonchalant play and slid a pass across the goal mouth to a wide open Davy Arnaud (who was sent off in the second half for being totally ridiculous throughout the whole match) and Arnaud blasted it past Rimando in the 42nd minute.
Despite the breakdown in the back, RSL was able to bounce back in the second half and regain control of the match. A number of scoring chances came and went for the home side that were never converted, but Kansas City never looked to be much of a threat. RSL did strike the killing blow, however, in the 86th after a hard foul just outside the box, which resulted in Arnaud's dismissal. The goal came off of a volley from second half sub Robbie Russell. Javier Morales blasted a shot the skipped net-ward but Nielsen was able to get a boot to it at the last minute. Russell was there on the follow up and put a pretty one timer in.
As the game was winding down, Ned Grabavoy was able to knock in his first goal of the season, when he took the ball off of a bumbling KC defender and easily put it past Nielsen to make the final tally 4-1 for the team who remains undefeated at home in 2010.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
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