"Personally, I'm not worried about playing on the road. I feel like we've come out in the first half and had good performances," said defender Chris Wingert. "We need to be able to put a goal away like we've been doing at home. At home we're jumping on teams right away and scoring a goal and then the game's in our favor."

Goalkeeper Nick Rimando believes that sticking with the game plan is another obstacle RSL must overcome.

"Going into those road games, we know what we need to do; we just don't accomplish it. We don't put that effort out there," he said. "We know it's going to be hard and know they're going to come after us because they have that homefield advantage, but we just seem to fall back in that second half."

It's going to take a 90-minute effort for RSL to finally break through. Seven of the 10 goals surrendered have been in the second half.

Real Salt Lake's road woes

Year ... W-L-T ... Pts.

2005 ... 0-14-2 ... 2
2006 ... 4-9-3 ... 15
2007 ... 2-8-5 ... 11
2008 ... 0-4-0 ... 0

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