Salt Lake City – Kyle Brown scored off a rebound in the 30th minute to lead Real Salt Lake to a 1-0 victory over the Rapids in a steady rain on Saturday night.
The victory snapped a four-game winless streak and kept Salt Lake (5-13-8) from being eliminated from the MLS playoff race with four games remaining in the regular season.
The Rapids (7-11-8) are still behind Chicago for the final playoff berth.
Goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul kept Salt Lake off the board with a diving, one-handed save of Chris Brown’s shot from the left side in the 30th minute.
But he could not regain his feet in time to stop Kyle Brown from taking control of the rebound in front of the net and scoring his second goal of the season.
Salt Lake has scored 12 goals in its past seven games, after scoring only 14 in its first 19. The Rapids, meanwhile, were shut out for the first time in seven games, and lost for just the second time in that span.
The game was the first meeting between Colorado’s Mehdi Ballouchy and Salt Lake’s Kyle Beckerman, midfielders who were traded for one another July 16. Salt Lake’s Chris Wingert also joined the team in a trade from the Rapids this season.
Colorado 0 0 – 0
Real Salt Lake 1 0 – 1
Scoring – Salt Lake, Kyle Brown 2 (unassisted) 30th minute.
Lineups:
Colorado, Bouna Coundoul (GK), Kosuke Kimura, Ugo Ihemelu, Stephen Keel, Brandon Prideaux, Terry Cooke (Omar Cummings 66th minute), Mehdi Ballouchy (Jose Cancela 63rd), Tony Sanneh, Colin Clark, Jacob Peterson (Daniel Osorno 74th), Jovan Kirovski.
Real Salt Lake, Nick Rimando (GK), Chris Lancos, Ritchie Kotschau, Matias Mantilla, Chris Wingert, Kyle Beckerman, Atiba Harris, Andy Williams (Carey Talley 46th), Kyle Brown (Javier Morales 62nd), Yura Movsisyan (Fabian Espindola 73rd), Chris Brown.
A – 14,089.
RED BULLS 2, REVOLUTION 2 at East Rutherford, N.J.: Juan Pablo Angel scored with six minutes remaining to give New York a tie.
Angel’s goal, his 16th in just 20 games, tied the franchise’s single-season scoring record set by Adolfo Valenica in 2000.
Taylor Twellman scored twice for New England, moving into sole possession of fifth place on the MLS’s career scoring list with 89.
CREW 2, TORONTO FC 1 at Toronto: Jason Garey and Jacob Thomas scored second-half goals as Columbus snapped its winless streak at seven games and extended Toronto FC’s skid to 11 games.
Miguel Canizalez scored in the second minute for Toronto, breaking the team’s scoreless drought after 824 minutes. Canizalez fired from close range after Columbus failed to clear a Jim Brennan cross from the left.
Columbus’ last victory came July 22 against Toronto.
