Comments about ‘Real Salt Lake beats Crew — barely’

Let's go RSL! I would love Chicago to host the Eastern Championship.

Unfortunately, I had to go out and miss the game. Congratulations. Rob Findlay has to be the team mvp. I thought this game would be low scoring, defensive minded.

If you guys could summarize how Real attack did and who did best etc, also the attendance what was it?

Terrific job guys, clean at back and 1 goal win, Be grateful. We got couple chances here. A tie advances us into the semis which is terrific, Or if Columbus wins even if they win by just 1 goal, then we would have a 30 min sudden death game to try and win before penalties/

FANTASTIC!

It was very defensive minded by Columbus, and really not as clean by Real Salt Lake. After some very surprising substitutions, like Morales for Mathis and Beltran for Rusell (both Morales and Beltran were playing really well), Movsisyan got the break we needed. I would say it was more Movsisyan in that goal than Findley, but Findley is winning some hearts for sure.

RSL was playing poor, Columbus was tanking out. We are just glad that at least it wasn't a tie. Playing with a tie at Columbus gives us only a very bleak chance to win.

Columbus played bunker ball. Sooo glad to see them get burned by it. Although away on Thursday, the win forces the Crew into the opposite of what they did tonight. They must open up and play for a win, which is a style that will favor RSL.

Take it to em boys!!!
Go RSL!

I see the change in substitution pattern as an attempt to rest Morales and Espindola for the second game.

Beltran had a very good night with only one breakdown that resulted in a shot on goal.

Wingert had several problems.

I was very surprised to see Williams left in so long as his play significantly diminished as the match went on.

I believe the attendance was around 11,000

how does a team get to the playoffs with a 2-11-2 record? Only in the MLS i guess...

Sad. How very, very sad.

the article made a mistake. the 2-11-2 record is rsl's road record, not their total record. their total record was 11-12-something

2-11-2 is their on the road record. At home they are 9-1-5 ( which is number one for the league )Hopefully there will be one more game at Rio Tinto this year.

the artical did not mention that it was the "Road" record.

sorry fmouse there will not be any more games at rio tinto this year. If we beate out columbus than we will play the winner of chicago or new england at there home. than if we get passed them its the MSL cup at Seattle.

Only in soccer can you enter a playoff game and only put out enough to force a tie. Saw the same thing the other night in Seattle when Houston played for the tie and was successful. at least Columbus failed tonight.

I sure hope that RSL doesn't play for the tie on Thursday. Something is wrong when you can form a defensive cacoon around your goalie and then only make half hearted attempts to score and if successful be rewarded with another game.

Even down 1-0 in the last 5 plus minutes, Columbus did not go into the all out attack mode. It was as if the 1-0 loss is acceptable because they think they can win by at least 2 on Thursday. Strange.

The game tonight was mostly attended by ghosts as it appeared most of the seats were empty. Americans may hate soccer, but it's apparently very popular in the afterlife.

I hope we can hold on with only a 1-0 lead. It was good to finally get the goal there. When Yura entered, the attack really seemed to pick up. One note about Yura, the guys on the post-game call-in show (Spence and Trey) indicated that if Randers FC ends up getting relegated, Yura is not obligated to play, and with them currently in last place by a long shot, it seems very likely that will be the case.

And to todd:
If we're tied in aggregate goals after the next game, it goes to a 30-minute overtime (2 15-minute halves), but it is NOT sudden death. They play the entire overtime, then PKs if still tied. Should be fun Tuesday night!

11,499 shocking attendance. Very disappointing. Credit to those who went or wanted too but schedule could not. The ones that could and the whole state and community should be ashamed, it should have been standing room only,

garbage nowadways rarely works. Allardyce of Blackburn ordered his "boys" against Manchester United at Old Trafford to soak up pressure. The first half it worked, one piece of brilliance from Berbatov changed all. He even said last week "oh even losing 2-0 to Chelsea" looks better than losing 0-4 like he did.

This cannot be the mind set. You cannot take dumb chances. I think Real should at least in the first 20 minutes pressure hard and take it to the Crew. If we do not score, play mostly conservative but still counter attack hard when there and take advantage of mistakes. More important, keep tackling, keep building and keep possession

That's so clever how you were able to make a connection between Halloween and empty seats. Your mommy must be so proud.

What's even more "Scary" and "frightening" were all of the empty green seats at the Jazz season-opening home game Friday night. What's even more "Terrifying" than that, is that it wasn't even Halloween and it was still empty.

Take it to 'em next week RSL!

Yeah, attendance was a joke -- both ends largely empty and the corners were completely vacant. I'd like to know how hard RSL tried to move this game forward a few hours. A 1 p.m. start would have packed the place, since all us parents had to miss in order to get costumes ready for Halloween.

Why does this team hate its season ticket holders so much?

Your headline and opening paragraphs are much too negative. THE HOME TEAM WON A HARD-FOUGHT GAME. How about "RSL finds a way to win" or "RSL beats First Place Team" or "RSL wins a classic" or "RSL Defense is Perfect, Findlay Gets Loose" or "RSL Gain the Advantage Up 1-0". You can't become Brad Rock this early in life.