SANDY, Utah (AP) — Zavier Gozo scored twice — the 19-year-old’s first career multi-goal game in MLS — and Rafael Cabral had four saves Wednesday night to help Real Salt Lake beat the Houston Dynamo 3-0. Gozo has a career-high five goals this season. An own goal by Houston midfielder Duane Holmes gave Salt Lake a 1-0 in the 49th minute before Gozo scored in the 57th and 64th. DeAndre Yedlin, on the counter-attack, raced to the edge of the penalty box and, as a pair of defenders converged, tapped a pass to Gozo from a finish from the center of the area in the to make it 2-0. Gozo later ran onto a long ball played ahead by Stijn Spierings on the left side and then beat goalkeeper Jonathan Bond with a shot inside the back post to cap the scoring. The Dynamo (6-6-0) had won back-to-back games and four of their last five. Cabral had his second shutout this season for RSL (7-4-1). AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Source link

Teenager Zavier Gozo and Diego Luna scored first-half goals and Rafael Cabral posted his first clean sheet of the season to lead Real Salt Lake to a 2-0 victory over the Portland Timbers. Gozo, 19, gave Real Salt Lake (6-3-1)… Source link

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Rodrigo De Paul and Luis Suárez scored less than two minutes apart late in the second half, and Dayne St. Clair earned his second clean sheet of the season as Inter Miami beat Real Salt Lake 2-0 on Wednesday night. It was the fastest two goals in club history at one minute and 54 seconds. De Paul took a short corner from Telasco Segovia and curled a shot into the upper-right corner of the goal in the 82nd minute. Suárez, who entered in the 75th, volleyed a left-footed shot past goalkeeper Rafael Cabral for his second goal of the season. Miami (5-1-3) is unbeaten in its last eight regular-season games to sit in second in the Eastern Conference standings. Salt Lake (5-1-2) had a six-game unbeaten run come to an end. RSL had secured multi-goal wins in its previous two games. The only other meeting between the teams resulted in a 2-0 victory for Miami at home in the 2024 season opener. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Source link

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergi Solans had two goals and an assist, Diego Luna added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat San Diego FC 4-2 on Saturday night to extend its unbeaten streak to six games. Morgan Guilavogui scored his first goal in MLS and had an assist for Real Salt Lake (5-1-1). The 28-year-old designated player has five goal contributions in his first six career games. RSL hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat at Vancouver in the season opener. San Diego (3-3-2) has lost three in a row and is winless in five straight. Luna opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he re-directed a misplayed pass by Duran Ferree, San Diego’s 19-year-old goalkeeper, into the net. Moments later, Solans headed home a perfectly-placed cross played by Luna from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box to the back post to make it 2-0. Solans, a 23-year-old forward, flicked a header from the center of the area inside the right post and past the outstretched arm of Ferree to make it 3-1 in the 37th minute. Guilavogui slammed home a first-touch shot to give RSL a three-goal lead in the 45th. Marcus Ingvartsen

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Diego Luna scored his first goal of the season in the fourth minute, 19-year-old Zavier Gozo added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat Sporting Kansas City 3-1 on Saturday. Sergi Solans also scored for RSL (3-1-1). The 23-year-old in his first MLS season has three goals in his first four career MLS starts. Rafael Cabral had two saves for Real Salt Lake. Dejan Joveljic scored his first goal of the season in the 59th minute that cut Sporting’s deficit to 2-1. Luna, as he approached the top of the penalty arc, made a quick cut and blasted a low left-foot shot that slipped inside the right post to give Salt Lake a 1-0 lead. Solans, on the counter-attack, took a pass from Gozo, cut back to evade a defender and rolled a shot from the center of the area inside the left post to make it 2-0 in the 55th minute. Gozo made it 3-1 in the 82nd. Noel Caliskan played a short pass to the right corner of the penalty area, where Gozo flicked it up in the air and rifled a volley into the net. John Pulskamp stopped four shots

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Stijn Spierings scored a goal in his MLS debut to help Real Salt Lake beat Austin FC 2-1 on Saturday night. Spierings, a 30-year-old former Netherlands youth international, ran onto a ball played ahead by Justen Glad and blasted a first-touch shot from well outside the area to give Real Salt Lake (3-1-0) its first lead of the game at 2-1 in the 88th minute. Jon Bell scored for Austin (1-2-1) in the 18th minute. Noel Caliskan played an entry pass from the left edge of the penalty box that was redirected into the net by Austin defender Oleksandr Svatok for an own goal that made it 1-1 in the 24th. RSL had 59% possession and outshot Austin 24-10, 8-3 on target. Diego Luna (knee) made his season debut for Real Salt Lake when he subbed on for 18-year-old Aiden Hezarkhani in the 71st minute. Brad Stuver stopped seven shots for Austin. Rafael Cabral had two saves for RSL. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Source link

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Teenager Aiden Hezarkhani scored his first career goal, Ariath Piol scored early in the second half and Real Salt Lake continued to dominate the Sounders at home with a 2-1 victory on Saturday. Real Salt Lake (1-1-0) improves to 14-1-4 when the Sounders (1-1-0) visit America First Field. Seattle hasn’t won in Sandy since winning a U.S. Open Cup match in 2016. Hezarkhani staked Real Salt Lake to a 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute, scoring with assists from defender Juan Manuel Sanabria — in his league debut — and Luca Moisa. Hezarkhani, 18, played 57 minutes in two appearances last season. Piol made it 2-0 two minutes into the second half with assists from 18-year-old Zavier Gozo and defender Philip Quinton. Piol had a goal and two assists in 24 appearances as a rookie last season. Quinton’s assist was his first in 50 career appearances. Gozo’s assist was his first this season and fourth in 29 career appearances. Seattle cut its deficit to a goal when Cristian Roldan took a pass from Albert Rusnák and found the net in the 62nd minute. That was it for the Sounders in their first match since learning Jordan

Major League Soccer owners voted Thursday to shift the league’s season to a summer-to-spring calendar in 2027, bringing it more in line with its international counterparts. The move aims to put MLS in a more competitive position for player transfers, while also freeing up players for national team duty during the summer, when many major international tournaments take place. This season the league started play in late February, with a break for the Club World Cup over the summer. The MLS Cup championship game is set for Dec. 6. The vote came at the Board of Governors meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. Under the new calendar, league play will begin in mid- to late July 2027, with the final day of the regular season in April 2028. The playoffs and championship will take place in May. The league would go on an extended break during the winter, with just a few games played in early December and no games in January before resuming in early to mid-February. The league is working with the Major League Soccer Players Association to finalize the transition. MLS Commissioner Don Garber told reporters on a conference call Thursday afternoon that the move was “one of

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Diogo Goncalves scored a goal, Rafael Cabral had three saves, and Real Salt Lake beat the Colorado Rapids 1-0 on Saturday night. Real Salt Lake (12-16-4) has 40 points and moved into a tie with Colorado (11-15-7) for the ninth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. San Jose, which has 38 points, plays Vancouver on Sunday. Salt Lake has won back-to-back games following consecutive 4-1 losses, both to Los Angeles FC. Goncalves opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Rwan Cruz rolled a no-look pass from the left side of the area back to Goncalves for a first-touch finish from just inside the 18-yard box that slipped under to crossbar and inside the left post to make it 1-0. Cruz, a 24-year-old designated player signed Aug. 1, had his first career goal contribution in MLS. Zack Steffen stopped three shots for the Rapids. Colorado has one win in its last six games. The Rapids beat RSL 1-0 on May 17. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/soccer Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Source link

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Braian Ojeda scored his first goal of the season Saturday night to help Real Salt Lake beat the Earthquakes 2-1 and extend San Jose’s winless streak to six games. Ojeda received a pass about 30 yards out and darted toward goal before blasting a low shot from just outside the area the bounced off goalkeeper Daniel De Sousa Britto — known simply as “Daniel” — into the net to cap the scoring in the 81st minute. Reid Roberts was shown a yellow card in first-half stoppage time and then another in the 84th minute, which resulted in a red card and Earthquakes (7-9-8) played a man down the rest of the way. After the teams quickly traded turnovers, Josef Martínez opened the scoring in the 51st. Cristian Espinoza played a pass to the right end line, where Cristian Arango — as he was falling out of bounds — flicked a first-touch centering pass and Martínez put away a diving header from point-blank range. Salt Lake (9-11-4) made it 1-1 in the 57th on an own goal when, the counter-attack, Diogo Gonçalves played a low cross the was redirected into the net by San Jose’s Jamar Ricketts.