How Real Salt Lake evolved and adapted to stay in the MLS playoffs
Pablo Mastroeni kept his options open. The 2021 season had just ended, and his unfancied Real Salt Lake team had made the playoffs and pulled off an upset at higher-seeded Seattle despite not taking a single shot across 120 minutes of play. The squad bowed out in the conference final, but had surprised plenty along the way.
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Defending was that RSL team’s calling card, much like that of his former team in Colorado, but Mastroeni didn’t want to be pigeonholed.
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