Player Ratings: Minnesota 1-2 RSL
The RSL attack stood out in the Twin Cities.
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David Ochoa - 6 Ochoa made his second start for RSL and played the role of the villain in Minnesota. Like it or not, he brings something that RSL has not had for a while which is a player that embraces that role. The Loons didn’t test him much, but he was ready al game long.
Donny Toia - 5 Toia let a few chances leak through his side and had a pretty average performance.
Justen Glad - 6.5 The RSL Academy product played a clean game and looked like a leader on the field. He nearly scored on a corner kick as well.
SANDY Maybe David Ochoa was overexcited.
Or maybe, like his critics are suggesting, he s simply young and naive.
Either way, after the Real Salt Lake goalkeeper helped his team to a season-opening 2-1 win at Minnesota United FC on Saturday evening, Ochoa grabbed the ball and booted it into the stands.
The ball didn t just fly toward the touchline it sailed way beyond it, landing somewhere in the middle of a half-empty section dubbed the Wonderwall by Loons supporters (yes, named for the Oasis classic of 1995).
Minnesota manager Adrian Heath took plenty of exception to it, running onto the field to confront Ochoa and Aaron Herrera, Justen Glad and anyone who would get in his way about the gesture that United s players called disrespectful after RSL s first-ever win at Allianz Field.
MINNESOTA (AP) â Anderson Julio scored two goals, Rubio RubÃn assisted both, and Real Salt Lake opened its season with a 2-1 win over Minnesota United on Saturday night.
Julio, in his MLS debut, opened the scoring for Real Salt Lake (1-0-0) in the 31st minute at the end of a counterattack that he started from behind midfield. RubÃn smothered Chase Gasperâs attempt to clear away Julioâs initial pass and Julio was the first to the loose ball, smashing home a right-footed shot from just inside the top of the 18-yard box.
Julio made it 2-0 in the 41st minute when RubÃn chased down Gasperâs errant backpass and squared to Julio for the tap-in.
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Minnesota United fans came to Allianz Field on Saturday night to cheer their team for the first time in 18 months. They left with little to applaud except for a late goal and a return to some normalcy in a 2-1 loss to Real Salt Lake.
Some 4,100 fans returned to Allianz Field on a clear, chilly spring night when a three-quarter moon rose over the south-end canopy that rises high over the Wonderwall, where fans, as they did elsewhere in the stadium, sat in pods of physical-distancing twos and fours.
The Loons ultimately were undone by their own defensive mistakes again and by Real Salt Lake midfielder Anderson Julio s two first-half goals that were too much to overcome.
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