SANDY, Utah (AP) — Johnny Russell scored his first goal of the season, 18-year-old Zavier Gozo also scored a goal and Real Salt Lake beat D.C. United 2-0 on Saturday night to snap their seven-game winless streak. Rafael Cabral finished with a save and had his fourth shutout of the season for Salt Lake (5-10-3). Russell, who signed with Salt Lake in April after he scored 60 goals across seven MLS seasons for Kansas City, scored in the 23rd minute. Russell ran down the right side onto a long ball-ahead played by Diogo Goncalves, cut back to evade a defender near the right corner of the area and rolled a shot into the net to give RSL a 1-0 lead. The 35-year-old Russell, who made his first start for the club, was replaced at halftime by Aiden Hezarkhani, the 17-year-old rookie’s second MLS appearance. Gozo slipped behind the defense, ran onto a long ball-ahead played by Alexandros Katranis and beat goalkeeper Luis Barraza to make it 2-0 in the 77th. Salt Lake had 58% possession and outshot D.C. United 19-8, 7-1 on target. Barraza finished with five saves. D.C. United (4-9-6), coming off a 7-1 loss to Chicago last Saturday,

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Brian White scored two goals — his second multi-goal game in his last three and third this season — and Pedro Vite scored from just outside the area in the 90th minute to help the Vancouver Whitecaps rally and beat Real Salt Lake 3-2 on Saturday night. Vancouver (10-1-4) is unbeaten in nine consecutive games dating to a 3-1 loss to Chicago on March 22. Vite bent a shot inside the back post to give the Whitecaps their first lead. Zavier Gozo scored his first career goal in the first minute. The 18-year-old in his third MLS season ran onto a ball played ahead by Diego Luna and, from the left side of the area, slipped a shot between the legs of defender Tristan Blackmon and inside the near post. Luna made it 2-0 when he scored his fifth goal in the last six games in the 4th minute. Dominik Marczuk played a cross from the right side that was deflected by goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka, but Luna was there to put away the rebound with a one-touch finish to make it 2-0. Salt Lake scored two goals in the first five minutes of a match for

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Rafael Cabral made two saves in the final minute of regulation and Sam Junqua blocked the final attempt, preserving Real Salt Lake’s 0-0 draw with Portland on Wednesday night. Portland nearly scored with the late push but Cabral came out to make two saves and Junqua made the final defensive stop on Omir Fernández. Portland was coming off a 1-0 shutout win at home over Sporting Kansas City on Saturday. Portland (6-3-4, 22 points) had four shots on goal and Salt Lake (4-7-2, 14 points) had one, which came in the first half. For RSL, young stalwart Diego Luna nearly scored on a free kick but his attempt hit the crossbar. In his previous three matches, Luna had registered four goals. Portland hosts Seattle on Thursday and RSL visits Colorado. ___ 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) — Theo Corbeanu scored his first MLS goal in the ninth minute Saturday night to help Toronto FC beat Real Salt Lake 1-0 and snap a eight-game winless streak to open the season. Corbeanu dispossessed Salt Lake’s Bode Hidalgo near the penalty arc, cut back to evade a defender and the rolled a shot from just inside the penalty area that slipped inside the post to make it 1-0. Diego Luna was shown a straight red card in the 61st minute for violent conduct and Salt Lake (3-6-0) played a man down the rest of the way. Sean Johnson, who had six saves for Toronto (1-4-4), has back-to-back shutouts and three in the last four games. Real Salt Lake had 61% possession and outshot Toronto 23-2, 6-1 on target. 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) — Diego Luna scored two goals five minutes apart in the first half and Real Salt Lake kept the defending-champion Los Angeles Galaxy winless with a 2-0 victory at America First Field on Saturday. Luna staked Real Salt Lake (3-4-0) to a 1-0 lead in the 21st minute with assists from defender Alexandros Katranis and Diogo Gonçalves. Luna made it a two-goal lead unassisted in the 26th minute with his third netter of the season and his 16th in 73 appearances for the club over four seasons. Katranis notched his first assist this season and his sixth in 34 appearances. Gonçalves’ helper was his second of the campaign and third in 16 career appearances. Luna becomes the youngest player in Real Salt Lake history to reach 15 goals and 15 assists in a career, doing so at 21 years, 210 days of age. Rafael Cabral needed to make just one save to earn the clean sheet for Real Salt Lake and that came in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time off the left foot of Tucker Lepley. It was the second shutout for the 34-year-old in his first season in the league. John McCarthy did not

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Luciano Acosta scored in first-half stoppage time after Real Salt Lake lost rookie Ariath Piol to a red card in the 23rd minute, and FC Dallas held on for a 1-0 victory behind goalkeeper Michael Collodi in his league debut at America First Field on Saturday night. Piol, a 20-year-old forward, did not last long in his fourth career start for Real Salt Lake (2-3-0). Dallas (2-2-1) didn’t take advantage until the seventh minute of stoppage time when Acosta scored unassisted off a deflection. It was Acosta’s second goal in his first season with the club and his 74th in 256 career appearances. The former league MVP has yet to add to his 97 career assists. Collodi, a 23-year-old homegrown product from Plano, Texas, totaled two saves in posting the clean sheet for Dallas. He filled in for regular starter Maarten Paes — on international duty with Indonesia. Real Salt Lake ended a nine-match winless run on the road its last time out with a 2-1 victory over the Houston Dynamo. Dallas leads the series 24-15-12 and improves to 10-13-5 in Utah with wins in three of its last four trips. Dallas has lost both of

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Anders Dreyer scored in the first minute of second-half stoppage time, Marcus Ingvartsen added some insurance five minutes later and expansion side San Diego FC rallied to beat Real Salt Lake 3-1 on Saturday night. Dreyer found the net unassisted for his third goal in his and San Diego’s debut season. Ingvartsen scored for the first time in his first season. Real Salt Lake jumped in front in the 17th minute when 20-year-old forward Ariath Piol used assists from Dominik Marczuk and Diego Luna to score his first goal in the second start and appearance of his career. Marczuk’s assist was his first this season and his second in 10 career appearances. Luna notched his first assist this season and his 16th over four seasons with the club. San Diego pulled even by halftime on a score by defender Franco Negri in the 43rd minute. It was the first career goal for Negri after playing for Inter Miami last season — his first in the league. Tomás Ángel snagged his second assist of the season and career. Ángel made his first five career appearances and played 46 minutes for Los Angeles FC last year. CJ dos

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Real Salt Lake used a first-half own goal to grab the lead, Forster Ajago scored his first career goal late in the second half and Rafael Cabral notched a clean sheet in his second MLS start with a 2-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Saturday. Real Salt Lake (1-1-0) grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 8th minute of its home opener on an own goal by Seattle defender Nouhou Tolo. An own goal by Sounders defender Yéimar Gomez Andrade in the third minute of second-half stoppage time allowed Charlotte FC to escape with a 2-2 draw last week in a season opener in Seattle. That’s where the score stood until Ajago took a pass from Diogo Gonçalves in the 79th minute and found the net for some insurance. Ajago scored in his first start and second appearance this season. He did not have a hand in a goal while making three starts and 12 appearances as a rookie last season for Nashville SC. Cabral finished with three saves in posting his first shutout in his second start in the league. The 34-year-old allowed four goals in a road loss to the San Jose Earthquakes to

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Jefferson Diaz scored the decisive goal in a 5-4 shootout after Minnesota and Real Salt Lake played to a scoreless draw in regulation, and United beat RSL in the first game of a best-of-three series on Tuesday night. It marked Minnesota’s first MLS Cup playoff win via a penalty kick shootout in club history. United can clinch a spot in the Western Conference semifinals with another victory over RSL on Saturday. Diaz sent RSL goalkeeper Zac MacMath the wrong way in the sixth round and then Braian Ojeda had a shot deflect off the crossbar. Minnesota goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair secured his eighth clean sheet of the season. MacMath dove to his left to deny Minnesota defender Michael Boxall in the third round of penalty kicks, but RSL defender Justen Glad followed with a shot that sailed the crossbar to keep it even at 2. MacMath guessed correctly in the fourth round, but Jeong Sang-Bin’s shot went under him into the back of the net. RSL’s last home playoff loss occurred in 2019 against Seattle. AP MLS: https://apnews.com/hub/major-league-soccer Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed