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topicnews · July 20, 2025

According to the numbers FC Cincinnati am Real Salt Lake

According to the numbers FC Cincinnati am Real Salt Lake


FC Cincinnati is on the street again to end a busy week and earn another three points away from home. For the first time this season, the Orange and Blue go to the Western Conference to visit Real Salt Lake in the first field of America for the second time in club history.

Fans can watch the game on the MLS season pass on Apple TV and listen to Spanish in ESPN 1530 and 101.5 FM La Mega in English. Let us examine some important numbers that can influence this agreement, all of which are presented by CTI.

A trio of statistics to open it, but all three correlate to a certain degree. Real Salt Lake (despite a game against the rest of the league) took third place in the Major League Soccer this season in yellow cards with 64 and is in red cards with four in red cards.

Real Salt Lake plays a physical game and has earned the eight -eight fouls this season with 293. On a 90-minute basis, RSL 13.3 fouls began almost league-deep of 10.4 per 90 compared to FC Cincinnatis, which 28th place this season.

FC Cincinnati has shown that you are not afraid of a coarse -grained match, but to RSL to try to assert yourself at home with physicality.

On Wednesday evening at the TQL Stadium, Evander was the first player in the history of FC Cincinnati, who scored a goal in five consecutive games in all competitions and epochs. With his bracket, the Brazilian MVP candidate brought his target in the five games to 10 and set him in the race for the golden boot with 15 goals in the season.

Real Salt Lake plays a lot to play for a long time and is one of the best teams in the league to complete passes of 30 meters or longer. According to FBREF and Opta, RSL tried the third most common passes of 30 meters or more this season and completed with a total of 967 games in 22 games. Defender Just Glad, who only plays in the Category Category of KC, leads the outfield players on RSL with 129 long passes. Goalkeeper Rafael Cabrera, however, is the real outstanding role, since its ability to pass RSL out of his back gives a dynamic aspect, since the experienced Brazilian keeper leads the team and is the third division in long passes in long passes.

FC Cincinnati and Real Salt Lake only met twice before this Saturday evening in the America First Field. The first game led to a 3-0 defeat at home in 2019, with the latest duel 2022 being a 2-1 win for the FCC.

Nevertheless, none of these pages currently has one player who scored a goal against the other on their squad. For FC Cincinnati, Nick Hagglund is the only player who performed in both games. In view of his appearance on the game schedule on Wednesday, he was able to appear a third appearance this weekend.

However, Evander, although he did not count for the FCC against RSL, had achieved considerable success against the club based in Utah, and added support in four games between seasons 2023 and 2024.

Alvas Powell is the only active FC Cincinnati player who earned a goal post for FCC against Salt Lake and received an assist in 2022. Other FCC players have earned themselves against RSL for other clubs goals contributions for other clubs, including Corey Baird (two goals in 10 games), Kei -Kei -Kei -Kei -Kei -Kai -Kai and two goals and two assists. in 10 games).

The 21-year-old star field player Diego Luna (with the nickname “Moonboy”) was the breakout star not only for Real Salt Lake this season, but also for the Men's American national team, since the dynamic attacker has returned from a successful run at the Gold Cup and achieved international recognition for his game. Luna achieved three times for his nation in six appearances.

The young midfielder has been an important player from Real Salt Lake for several years and debuted in 2022, but really came to himself in 2024 when he achieved 20 goal contributions. He is now a key piece of the Western Conference Side offensive engine.

In 2025, Luna has already scored 12 goals contributions (eight goals, four templates) and is a player that this game can pay attention to as an engine behind RSL's attack.

With his opening goal in victory on Wednesday evening, Gerardo “Dado” Valenzuela scored his fifth goal of the season and set up a new career record with five goals in the season, where he exceeded his 2024 season, where he scored a goal and three assists.

The 20 -year -old Valenzuela is now playing all graduates of FC Cincinnati Academy in the first teams of teams, goals and goal contributions with 1540 minutes, six career goals in the MLS game and nine goal contributions in the same time.