Real Salt Lake lost 1-0 at Rocky Mountain Cup Presented by Mark Miller Subaru rivals the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night.
Here are a few interesting numbers from the match:
4-1
Real Salt Lake now trails Colorado 4-1 in the 2013 Rocky Mountain Cup point standings. RSL must win the one remaining RMC match on Aug. 3 at Colorado to retain the Cup for a seventh-consecutive year.
12-for-13
RSL forward Alvaro Saborio is now 12-for-13 on penalty kicks in his RSL career. Saborio had a penalty kick stopped by Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin in the 10th minute on Saturday.
0-4-3
Real Salt Lake is 0-4-3 in its last seven regular season matches at Colorado. The Utah side hasn’t won at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park since Oct. 20, 2007.
405
By playing 45 minutes on Saturday, Claret-and-Cobalt midfielder Sebastian Velasquez moved to 405 MLS minutes played this season, surpassing the 403 league minutes he played during his rookie season of 2012.
16,055
Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando’s 90 minutes on Saturday moved him past the 16,000 minute mark in his Claret-and-Cobalt career. Rimando is RSL’s all-time leader in minutes played, more than 2,500 minutes ahead of second-place Kyle Beckerman.
70
RSL defender Chris Wingert started and played 70 minutes for the RSL Reserves in its 0-0 draw against the Colorado Reserves on Saturday night. It was Wingert’s second time on the field in 2013 – he played 30 minutes off the bench in RSL’s exhibition win over BYU last Monday – after fracturing bones in his right foot during offseason training in December.
