{"id":190753,"date":"2025-10-05T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190753\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:46:07","slug":"diogo-goncalves-real-salt-lake-beat-rapids-move-colorado-into-playoff-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/190753\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Goncalves, Real Salt Lake beat Rapids, move Colorado into playoff position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SANDY, Utah (AP) \u2014 Diogo Goncalves scored a goal, Rafael Cabral had three saves, and Real Salt Lake beat the Colorado Rapids 1-0 on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Real Salt Lake (12-16-4) has 40 points and moved into a tie with Colorado (11-15-7) for the ninth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. San Jose, which has 38 points, plays Vancouver on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Salt Lake has won back-to-back games following consecutive 4-1 losses, both to Los Angeles FC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Goncalves opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Rwan Cruz rolled a no-look pass from the left side of the area back to Goncalves for a first-touch finish from just inside the 18-yard box that slipped under to crossbar and inside the left post to make it 1-0. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cruz, a 24-year-old designated player signed Aug. 1, had his first career goal contribution in MLS. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zack Steffen stopped three shots for the Rapids. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Colorado has one win in its last six games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Rapids beat RSL 1-0 on May 17. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANDY, Utah (AP) \u2014 Diogo Goncalves scored a goal, Rafael Cabral had three saves, and Real Salt Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-190753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}