Real Salt Lake hosts the Houston Dynamo on Saturday in a MLS Western Conference fixture. Real Salt Lake is fourth in the conference table at 6-4-3 on 22 points with a goal difference of -3. Real Salt Lake defeated Montreal 2-1 on the road last Sunday in its most recent MLS fixture. Montreal opened the scoring with a goal in the first minute, but Justen Glad scored an equalizer for RSL in the 54th minute and Sergio Cordova scored the winner in the 66th minute.
Real Salt Lake rallied from one goal down in its victory last Sunday for the second consecutive week. RSL has won three times this season after conceding the first goal, which is tied with LAFC for the most in the MLS. Sergio Cordova and Justen Glad are amongst four players for Real Salt Lake, with two goals each. Maikel Chang and Pablo Ruiz have three assists each to lead RSL.
The Houston Dynamo are seventh in the conference table at 5-3-5 on 18 points with a goal difference of +3. Houston was defeated by Sporting Kansas City 2-1 on Wednesday in the US Open Cup round of 16. Houston defeated LA Galaxy on the road last Sunday 3-0 in its most recent MLS fixture. Sebastian Ferreira, Tyler Pasher and Thoreifur Ulfarsson each scored one goal for Houston in the victory.
Houston's victory on the road last Sunday was its second in their last 30 matches away from home. Sebastian Ferreira and Darwin Quintero are the leading goal scorers for Houston Dynamo with five each. Tyler Pasher' and Fabrice Picault have scored two goals apiece. Adam Lundqvist and Ferreira are the leaders in assists with three each.
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