SANDY, Utah (Friday, September 30, 2016) – Real Salt Lake kicks off the final month of its 12th Major League Soccer season with a Saturday night kickoff at San Jose, traveling to Avaya Stadium against the host Earthquakes for an 8:30 p.m. MT kickoff. The game will be televised via KMYU with David James and Brian Dunseth on the call, and can also heard via RSL outlets 100.7 FM (English, Jay Nolly, Spencer Warne & Jeremy Horton) & 102.3 FM / 1600 AM (Spanish, Fernando Hortal & Nelson Moran). Pre-game coverage airs live locally on 100.7 FM at 7:30 p.m. MT.
Saturday’s match at San Jose is the first of three reg. season games for RSL in October, with only a critical home match on Sunday, October 16 against rival Kansas City splitting road trips to San Jose and Seattle on the season’s “Decision Day” – Sunday, October 23.
RSL split the series at San Jose last year, splitting its first two visits to Avaya Stadium with a 1-0 win on Easter weekend courtesy of a scintillating Javier Morales free kick, and falling 0-1 when former ‘Quakes MF Matias Perez Garcia found the back of the net in the 87th minute. All-time, RSL boasts a 5-5-3 mark away at San Jose, the Claret-and-Cobalt’s best road mark against a Western Conference team (RSL 4-3-2 at New England and 3-3-4 at Chicago, along with 1-0-4 at Philadelphia).
Scoreboard watching is in full effect for RSL the rest of the way, as Saturday’s 7:00 p.m. MT kickoff at Colorado featuring the Portland Timbers – as well as all other matchups involving Dallas, LA, Seattle, Kansas City and the Rapids, in a tightly-contested Western Conference race – holds bearing on RSL’s postseason seeding, as Head Coach Jeff Cassar’s club can officially clinch its spot in the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs with a win Saturday AND a Portland loss.
According to nearly all of the predictive models and algorithms for the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs, RSL has approximately a 95% chance of being one of the six Western Conference sides in the postseason - follow THIS LINK for more specific breakdowns. With just three games remaining this regular-season, RSL remains highly likely to host a home playoff game as a top four seed in the West, but must capture the full three points in each of the club's remaining games – at San Jose, as well as on Sunday, October 16, against rival Sporting Kansas City to feel secure. To OPT-IN NOW for your 2017 Season Ticket Membership location and in order to secure this year's preferred Playoff pricing, please contact your Fan Relations representative at 801.727.2702!
How to Follow Real Salt Lake at San Jose
- Coverage Begins: 8:00 p.m. MT
- Local TV: KMYU – David James and Brian Dunseth
- English Radio: 100.7 FM (7:30 p.m. MT) – Jay Nolly, Spencer Warne & Jeremy Horton
- Spanish Radio: 102.3 La Gran D FM / 1600 AM – Nelson Moran & Fernando Hortal
- Online: The @RealSaltLake Twitter feed provides updates
Game Guide for Saturday’s RSL v. San Jose Matchup Available Online
The link to the Adobe PDF version of the Game Guide in advance of Saturday’s contest between Real Salt Lake and San Jose is available by clicking HERE.
