RSL retains 12-game unbeaten streak alive with last-minute attract Seattle

SEATTLE — Actual Salt Lake waited 99 minutes in Wednesday’s recreation to attain its first objective in a 1-1 draw in opposition to the Seattle Sounders to increase the present unbeaten streak to 12 video games.

“To have a bunch of fellows that does not stop, that does not cease, that imagine that we’ve got an opportunity once more; in the event you do not imagine you could have an opportunity, there is not any means you are going to rating,” head coach Pablo Mastroeni mentioned. “However these guys, it is nearly like they override their brains and so they let their spirits take over.”

In true “by no means quit” vogue, Andres Gomez took a shot, bought the rebound, after which despatched a second shot rattling via the legs of legendary Seattle keeper Stefan Frei within the a centesimal minute for the Colombian winger’s eighth objective of an explosive breakout season.

MLS All-Star voting started Wednesday, and Gomez ought to have a reliable case to be RSL’s first choice since 2021 — together with Chicho Arango, Emeka Eneli and a number of other others from one of the best group within the West.

RSL has come from behind to win or tie its final three matches, with Gomez being integral to all three comebacks.

His equalizer on Wednesday got here with loads of assist, as effectively, each in a collection of passes that bought him the ball within the field and a VAR verify simply minutes earlier than that known as off a Danny Musovski objective to place Seattle up 2-0 in stoppage time.

The primary objective from Seattle — and the one one which counted — got here from one other former RSL participant, Albert Rusnak, within the 68th minute after the groups went shot-for-shot for a lot of a wet contest within the Pacific Northwest.

“I’ve by no means been part of a group that believes greater than this group,” Mastroeni mentioned. “And so once we join that with among the tactical issues that we’ll work on within the subsequent couple of days, you recognize, I could not be extra pleased with the group of fellows”

RSL returns to Utah to face Austin FC on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. MDT at America First Discipline.