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Real Salt Lake at Seattle Sounders F.C.
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Starfire Sports Complex - Tukwila, WA | 10:00 p.m. EST
MLS Play-In Bracket
Previews:
"Sounders FC host Open Cup play-in match"
Seattle Times
"Sounders doing double duty this week"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Real Salt Lake sails to Open Cup match"
Deseret News
"Hot RSL thirsts for Cup"
Salt Lake Tribune
"Seattle begins Open Cup play with plenty of experience" - MLSnet.com (SEA)
Both the Seattle Sounders F.C. and Real Salt Lake are having solid starts to their seasons. The Sounders are 4-2 in their inaugural MLS campaign, and goalkeeper Kasey Keller has not allowed a goal in his 389 minutes of league play. Salt Lake enter the game after a 6-0 pounding of the New England Revolution at Rio Tinto Stadium, with all goals coming in the last 40 minutes of the match. The winner of this match will take on the Colorado Rapids for the right to enter tournament proper, most likely in the third round.
Did You Know?
The Seattle Sounders F.C. may be new to MLS Open Cup qualifying, but they are veterans in U.S. Open Cup experience. The Sounders, who played in the USL First Division last season, made it all the way to the semifinals of the 2008 tournament, before falling to fellow USL side Charleston Battery on penalties after a 1-1 draw. Striker Sebastien Le Toux earned the scoring title in both 2007 and 2008 with the Sounders, scoring 5 goals each year. Current backup goalkeeper Chris Eylander was named the USOpenCup.com Player of the Tournament in 2008, conceding only 1 goal in 510 minutes, including a 453-minute shutout streak, a Professional Era U.S. Open Cup record.
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