Real Salt Lake will host a revamped Toronto FC side on Saturday, welcoming the 2-0-0 Canadian club to Rio Tinto Stadium for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff. The match will feature a battle of two of the best central midfielders in MLS, with RSL Captain Kyle Beckerman facing off against TFC Designated Player Michael Bradley.
While Bradley is widely considered the better of the two players – he starts ahead of Beckerman on the U.S. Men’s National Team – one RSL player sees things a little bit differently. Claret-and-Cobalt defender Nat Borchers thinks Beckerman is the better than Bradley, and said as much during his Monday appearance on “The Bill and Hans Show” on ESPN 700.
Nat’s full quote is below. Click here to listen to his full interview.
“I think Bradley is a very similar player to Kyle Beckerman, except I think Kyle’s a better player. Both of those players are getting paid to score goals, assist on goals and to do the dirty work defensively. You look at Bradley, he’s not afraid to track runners back into his own half, not afraid to press defenders forward into their half. He’s all over the place and he can cover an amazing amount of ground. To quantify what he does on the pitch is really more about wins and losses than goals or assists. He just does so much for his team, just like Kyle Beckerman does for us.”
Well said, Nat.
