Rio Tinto Stadium, Sandy, UT – It was an exciting match that turned to disappointment when Vancouver scored the late equalizer to leave RSL with only 1 point for their effort. After two home loses it is nice to get a result however this wasn’t what anyone had in mind. Both clubs were on the attack for the entire match. The goals both came in the second half, first with a beautiful finish off of a perfectly weighted ball from Jasper Loffelsend by Sergio Cordova, his 7th of the year that equalizer came in the 87th minute and RSL was unable to put together a response before the whistle blew.
The Claret and Cobalt came out hot with three shots in the opening nine minutes and looked like they were in on their way to an exciting night even keeping Vancouver without a shot in the half. Even with the chances they created RSL was unable to find the back of the net.
With no changes at the half and the chances still coming Sergio Cordova was able to put his club in front with his goal in the 61st minute. Vancouver took the challenge and was able to get off 9 shots in the half and it paid off with a late goal from Julian Gressel in the 87th minute of play to equalize and deny RSL the full 3 points.
Sergio Cordova kept up his goal scoring streak with his 7th of the year putting him 2 goals ahead in the golden boot race. Vancouver leads the league with equalizers late in the match. Tonight was the 13th consecutive sell out at the RioT. Real Salt Lake travels to Plano Texas next Saturday, August 27th where they meet up with Western Conference rival FC Dallas at Toyota Stadium.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 1 1
Whitecaps 0 1 1
Scoring Summary
RSL – Sergio Cordova – 61′
VAN – Julian Gressel – 87′
Misconduct Summary
RSL – Jasper Loffelsend – 12′ – unsporting behavior
VAN – Russell Teibert – 18′ – unsporting behavior
VAN – Sebastian Berhalter – 90’+2′ – unsporting behavior
Officials
Referee: Ismir Pekmic
Assistant Referee: Jason White
Assistant Referee: Walter Heatherly
4th Official: Alex Chilowicz
Video Assistant Referee: Jose Carlos Rivero
AVAR: Jeff Muschik
Attendence: 20,567
Lineups
Real Salt Lake: Zac MacMath; Andrew Brody; Marcelo Silva; Justen Glad; Aaron Herrera; Justin Meram (Rubio Rubin, 72′); Pablo Ruiz; Jasper Loffelsend (Scott Caldwell, 72′); Maikel Chang (Anderson Julio, 62′); Jefferson Savarino; Sergio Cordova (Erik Holt, 82′)
Substitutes Not Used: Tomas Gomez; Bode Hidalgo; Nick Besler; Johan Kappelhof; Diego Luna
Head Coach: Pablo Mastroeni
Vancouver Whitecaps: Thomas Hasal; Ranko Veselinovic; Tristan Blackmon; Jake Nerwinski; Cristian Dajome; Alessandro Schopf (Julian Gressel, 55′); Andres Cubas; Ryan Gauld; Ryan Raposo (Brian White, 68′); Russell Teibert (Sebastian Berhalter, 68′); Lucas Cavallini
Substitutes Not Used: Marcus Godinho; Luis Martins; Janio Bikel; Florian Jungwirth; Cody Cropper; Tosaint Ricketts
Head Coach: Vanni Sartini