GOAL reviews the major takeaways from Americans playing in MLS, including Luna’s excellent playmaking performance<\/p>\n
Real Salt Lake\u2019s playoff hopes were hanging by a thread. Against an Austin FC team on the verge of clinching their own spot, anything short of a win would have ended Pablo Mastroeni\u2019s push. Fortunately for the manager, and for RSL, they have Diego Luna.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old midfielder was at his creative best Saturday, helping the Claret and Cobalt to a stunning upset of Austin, setting up two of the home side’s goals to cement a 3-1 win. Yet, RSL’s triumph wasn’t the only surprise result over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tim Ream’s Charlotte FC, who looked like MLS Cup favorites just three weeks ago, were brought back to reality with a 4-1 loss to CF Montreal. You read that correctly, the 13th-placed Le CFM ran every which way against a team that crushed Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami on Sept. 13. Life in MLS. Meanwhile, Vancouver’s Brian White is also back, scoring on his return.\u00a0<\/p>\n
GOAL looks at the major takeaways from USMNT players in MLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOAL reviews the major takeaways from Americans playing in MLS, including Luna’s excellent playmaking performance Real Salt Lake\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36145,15021,36150,36149,36146,85,46,24536,36144,36147,105,2586,36148],"class_list":["post-45780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-austin-fc","tag-charlotte-fc","tag-d-luna","tag-dc-united","tag-fc-cincinnati","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-orlando-city","tag-real-salt-lake","tag-seattle-sounders-fc","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-vancouver-whitecaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}