Sandy • Real Salt Lake dropped its first game of the season, and it took just seven minutes to do it.
With a 1-0 lead in the 83rd minute, RSL looked primed to win its third game in a row to start the 2021 Major League Soccer season. But like Thanos from “The Avengers” franchise, Chris Wondolowski proved inevitable.
Wondolowski scored twice in a four-minute span and led the Earthquakes to a 2-1 win over RSL, which fought formidably up until the home stretch of the game.
Wondolowski’s first goal came off a rebound due to a David Ochoa save. The second came off a cross he headed home with authority.
It was the first home loss for Salt Lake, which welcomed a sold-out crowd of 10,448 to Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday night.
RSL striker Rubio Rubin opened the scoring with a spectacular goal off a bicycle kick. The goal cumuimatd a sequence that started with a throw-in and scored off a headed pass from Damir Kreilach.
WHAT A GOAL! RUBIO RUBIN! 😱 #RSLvSJ pic.twitter.com/ZB5Cdo60DK
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 8, 2021
You might have to go back to 2013 to find the last time a Real Salt Lake player put away a bicycle kick for a goal. Javier Morales did it that year against the Portland Timbers.
Real Salt Lake entered Saturday’s game winning its first two games of the season. The last time it did that was in 2012.
This story is developing and will be updated
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