REAL SALT LAKE v MONTREAL IMPACT WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 2012
7:00PM MT
RIO TINTO STADIUM SANDY, UT
REAL SALT LAKE v MONTREAL IMPACT WEDNESDAY APRIL 4 2012
7:00PM MT
RIO TINTO STADIUM SANDY, UT
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RSL PROBABLE STARTERS v MTL
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17 WINGERT
RSL v MTL BROADCAST INFO TV: CW30 w/ Bill Riley (@espn700bill) & Brian Dunseth (@BP_TOW) RADIO: ESPN700 w/ Spencer Warne (@espn700guv) (ENG) & Brian Kamler (@espn700kam) (Pre-Game show kicks off at 6:00p MT) RADIO: La Gran D 102.3 FM / 1600 AM (SPN) w/ Nelson Moran & Fernando Hortal
RSL INJURY REPORT OUT: FW Cody Arnoux (R adductor strain) DOUBTFUL: n/a QUESTIONABLE: MF Will Johnson (R adductor strain) PROBABLE: DF Nat Borchers (L quadriceps strain)
21 GIL
6
15 SABORIO
BORCHERS
18
5
10
RIMANDO
BECKERMAN
MORALES
4 OLAVE
20 2
23 PAULO JR
GRABAVOY
BELTRAN
RSL - MTL CONNECTIONS: Salt Lake City native
son Justin Braun (Skyline H.S., Salt Lake Community College) makes his 4th return to Rio Tinto Stadium in an opposing uniform, but his first since becoming a member of the expansion Impact in November ... He did score once for Chivas USA against RSL in LA back in 2010 ...
For the second time in as many road games in 2012, RSL erased a late deficit with both the equalizing and gamewinning goals to capture the full 3 points at one of Major League Soccer’s most difficult venues ...
Joining Braun on the Quebecois former RSL MF Collen Warner, the team’s top overall draft pick in 2010 out of the University of Portland ... Warner played 44 games across all competitions in an RSL uniform, scoring 1 goal in the group-clinching 3-1 home win vs Cruz Azul in Oct. 2010 and tallying 7 assists before being selected by Jesse Marsch and Impact GM Matt Jordan in the expansion draft last winter ...
In Saturday’s 3-2 win at JELD-WEN Field in Portland, RSL rode a Jonny Steele equalizer in the 89’ to knot things up at 2-2 before Captain Kyle Beckerman blasted home the winner at the death (93+’) - from almost the exact same spot on the field as Steele - to defeat the Timbers for the first time in three attempts ...
Jordan trained with RSL GM Garth Lagerwey and Asst. Coach Jeff Cassar as a goalkeeping understudy and a teammate of Jason Kreis’ in Dallas from 1998-2002, was a teammate of Ned Grabavoy’s with the 2005 Columbus Crew and spent the 2006 season in Colorado with Kyle Beckerman & Chris Wingert ...
However, the pair of come-from-behind road wins in March at LA and at PDX - two of the most difficult places to win a year ago - equals the total road comebacks the team has had in its first 7 seasons ...
Marsch, the Impact’s Head Coach, spent 8 years as a teammate on the Chicago Fire from 1998-2005 with RSL Asst. Coach C.J. Brown ... In 2005, the Fire boasted a young impact developmental player - current RSL MF Will Johnson ...
CARDIAC KIDS CREATE KILLER COMEBACK:
In Sept 2008, RSL came from behind to win 3-2 in San Jose on a Yura Movsisyan goal that was a ripping point in qualifying for he club’s first-ever playoff berth, while a year later, against Columbus in the Eastern Conference Semis, came from behind to shock defending champion Columbus - also by a 3-2 scoreline - en route to the MLS Cup 2009 title, the state of Utah’s first major league professional championship in nearly 40 years ...
STELLAR SUBS STEP UP TO SCORESHEET:
All three of RSL Head Coach Jason Kreis’ second-half subs - MF Will Johnson, making his 2012 debut; FW Fabian Espindola, making his first substitute appearance; and MF Jonny Steele - found their way onto the scoresheet, as Johnson assisted on the Steele goal, and it was Espindola’s vision that set up Beckerman winner ...
Impact GK Donovan Ricketts and DF Shavar Thomas each played on the Jamaica National Team with RSL Head Scout Andy Williams ... DF Zarek Valentin and RSL MF Luis Gil toured Holland together in the winter with the Generation adidas tour, and both have been part of various U.S. Youth National Teams together ... Impact players Lamar Neagle (Seattle) and Josh Gardner (Los Angeles) each scored their first MLS goals against RSL with former teams prior to coming to Montreal ...