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Well, that was pretty straightforward: Real Salt Lake gifted
the Chicago Fire a couple cock-ups, and did a more or less creditable job of
keeping out RSL, if abetted by at least one shocking miss by Salt Lake’s Yura
Movsisyan, who looks more like an MLS 2.0 guy with each outing. I’d call RSL’s
attack more coherent – especially over about 30 minutes in the second half (and
is that “tale of two halves thing just something observers don’t even have to
note anymore? Doesn’t that seem closer to the norm than wire-to-wire
dominance?) – but superior approach play doesn’t win a team games, no matter
how superior.
So, that’s that: Chicago scored one weird goal (Nemanja Nikolic’s;
Sunday “Sunny” Stephen ruined a pretty damn clear offside call by poking into
his path) and a great, if preventable second on an Arturo Alvarez solo mission, and they walked off 2-0 winners.
I tell you, man, Alvarez has been Chicago’s most consistent attacker since the
middle of 2016. That said, big credit to Dax McCarty for the ball that forced
Sunny’s error; cut through two lines like room temperature butter…
Some notes on both teams…like I said, I want to keed these
things simple.
