PREGAME FACTS AND INFO SHEET
REAL SALT LAKE v. ORLANDO CITY SC
SAT., JULY 4, 2015 – 8:00 pm MT on KMYU, ESPN700 & 102.3 LaGranD
.850 – RSL’s all-time winning percentage against expansion teams in their maiden visits to Utah, as RSL has posted an 8-1-1 mark all-time, outscoring those opponents 19-5 in the Beehive State … The lone loss? July 4, 2007, at Rice-Eccles Stadium, as Toronto FC won 2-1 on a late Collin Samuel PK …
2 – road games in June/July, as RSL defends its Rio Tinto Stadium fortress for 8 home games in 11 total matches (8 MLS games, 3 US Open Cup) from June 7 through July 24 … A 9-man RSL lost at New York Red Bulls 10 days ago, 0-1, while the team will head to Denver on July 11 … RSL will host a USOC Quarterfinal against LA Galaxy on Tues., July 14 …
3 – goals scored in consecutive home games by RSL FW Sebastian Jaime, the 6th such occasion in club history … Jaime joins Alvaro Saborio – the last man to accomplish the feat (July 2012, May 2010), as well as Robbie Findley (November 2009) and Yura Movsisyan (June 2009) … Former RSL FW Jeff Cunningham actually did it as well in May/June 2006, and set a team mark with goals in FOUR straight games (home and away) in that period …
4 – games involving red cards – a total of 6 – for RSL in its first 18 MLS matches this season, as the June 24th 0-1 loss at NYRB saw both Javier Morales and Demar Phillips sent off on either side of halftime … That marked the 4th time in 396 MLS regular-season, playoff, Open Cup and CONCACAF Champions League play that RSL was reduced to 9 men … The first time RSL fell down to nine was on Feb. 22, 2011 in a CCL game at Columbus, a 0-0 draw on a 22-degree frozen field, as both DF Tony Beltran and DF Nat Borchers were ejected, as was Crew FW Renteria … That match marked the 2nd time in 2015 RSL fell victim to a pair of reds, as both DF Jamison Olave and FW Sebastian Saucedo were tossed in an 0-1 home loss on April 18 to Vancouver … Olave and FW Fabian Espindola were each ejected in an April, 2011 loss at San Jose … RSL’s team record of 7 red cards was set in 2009, 2011 and 2013, as odd-numbered years have the Claret-and-Cobalt seeing red …
6 – games in an 18-day period for RSL, ending today after starting June 21 v Sporting Kansas City … RSL has posted an all competitions mark of 3-1-1 in that period, outscoring opponents 8-5 and seeing 22 different players take the field …
7 – consecutive playoff berths for RSL from 2008-14 (the longest active run in MLS), during which time the club has averaged 1.58 points per game) … RSL also owns a league-record 5 consecutive seasons with 15+ wins and 50+ points, matching LA’s active run from 2010 to present …
8 – hours back in the United States prior to starting Wednesday night’s 2-0 win against Portland for RSL DF Elias Vasquez, who received his P-1 visa late Monday and a new passport Tuesday in Guatemala, where he had been training since his national team eliminated Bermuda, 1-0, over 180 minutes in CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying on June 9 … Vasquez was likely to spend fewer than 24 hours in Utah, as he was originally slated to dress for Guatemala against the United States – including Nick Rimando and Kyle Beckerman – in yesterday’s 4-0 USA win in Nashville … After Wednesday’s game, Elias received permission from his national team to join them Sunday for the Gold Cup …
9 – consecutive seasons in an RSL uniform for GK Nick Rimando, MF Kyle Beckerman & MF Javier Morales … The longest-tenured RSL men also rank 1-2 amongst Major League Soccer’s active leaders in games/starts/minutes (Rimando: 386/386/34,903; Beckerman: 369/340/30,532) … Morales has either scored or assisted on nearly 25% of the club’s all-time 452 goals scored, with the Argentine “maestro” tallying 40 goals and 70 assists, despite missing most of the 2011 season and all of 2005/06 and more than half of 2007 …
11 – the number of current RSL players potentially involved in national team call-ups this summer, as MF Jordan Allen (U.S. U-20 at FIFA Youth World Championship), DF Boyd Okwuonu (U.S. U-23s at Toulon tournament), MF Luis Gil (U.S. U-23s + full U.S. national team), GK Nick Rimando & MF Kyle Beckerman (full U.S. national team), FW Alvaro Saborio (Costa Rica), DF Abdoulie Mansally (The Gambia), DF Demar Phillips (Jamaica), DF Elias Vasquez (Guatemala), DF Justen Glad (U.S. U-18s) and FW Sebastian Saucedo (U.S. U-18s) all could disappear for one or more games at a time …
13 – wins needed by RSL GK Nick Rimando in 2015 to become Major League Soccer’s all-time leader in that category, overtaking Kevin Hartman … Rimando now has 121 career shutouts, 9 more than Hartman in 33 fewer games all-time …
23 – players to have started a game for RSL this year in the club’s first 18 MLS games this season, as DF Justen Glad made his first XI debut May 30 in Vancouver and rookie DFs Phanuel Kavita (starting) & Boyd Okwuonu (sub) each appeared last Saturday for their MLS debuts … RSL boss Jeff Cassar has given 25 players league minutes this year, meaning everyone on the roster except GK Lalo Fernandez (MF Fito Ovalle is on a season-long loan to the USL Monarchs) have seen MLS time …
26 – all-time PK denials by RSL GK Nick Rimando, who went 3-for-5 against opponents in his last eight games – denying Rapids MF Dillon Powers on June 7 to preserve a home point … Opposing PK takers have seen their conversion rates now drop to 43-for-70 against Rimando all-time, including 22-for-40 with Nick in an RSL uniform … Amazingly, Rimando has stopped 9 of the last 13 PKs faced and 11 of the last 17 … #WalloftheWasatch indeed …
27 – wins when FW Alvaro Saborio is not available at all for RSL due to suspension, injury or national team duty, the club recording a 27-13-9 mark in those instances … RSL is 43-6-13 mark all-time when the Costa Rican international finds the back of the net, but only 22-37-26 when he plays and doesn’t score …
53 – combined total of game-winning goals (27) and equalizers (26) in the 75th minute or later for RSL in its 395-game all competition history, after the June 21 extra-time game-winner by FW Olmes Garcia to give RSL a 2-1 W over Kansas City … The Colombian forward had gone more than 1,050 minutes between goals, dating back to last August in Dallas …
59 – number of players in RSL’s 11-year, 125-player history to have scored at least one goal for the Claret-and-Cobalt, now that FW Sebastian Jaime opened his MLS account two weekends ago against Kansas City … who will be #60?
91 – home wins since 2008, as RSL has amassed a 91-19-38 mark on home soil in all competitions in its last 148 home matches, during which it has outscored opponents by 160 goals (269-109) … RSL enters tonight 73-14-35 in MLS reg. season games (221-90 goals), with a 6-1-1 CCL mark (17-5), 5-2-2 playoffs (11-4) and 7-2-0 in Open Cup (20-10) …
20,900+ – tonight’s attendance at Rio Tinto Stadium will set a new Real Salt Lake mark in its home venue, displacing the 20,801 record set May 23 against Jason Kreis and NYCFC …
$250,000 – prize money granted by U.S. Soccer to the winning team in the Open Cup, the 17 American-based MLS sides requiring five wins to earn that cash as well as a berth in the 2016-17 CONCACAF Champions League …
3,975,070 – combined households that RSL’s local TV syndication now reaches starting tonight with the addition of the Phoenix market, joining the entire Utah DMA and Boise, Reno and Las Vegas … Tucson and Albuquerque still pending for Sinclair/American Sports Network/KMYU …
