Here are three takeaways from the important 2-0 clean sheet that Real Salt Lake put on Sporting Kansas City.
Some strikers just have a nose for the ball. If it’s anywhere around the goal and they just happen to be nearby, that ball is finding the back of the net one way or another. The majority of Johnson’s seven goals this season have come from him simply being in the vicinity.
But no goal exemplifies the “poacher” moniker like his second goal of the evening. On a breakaway, Albert Rusnák played the ball behind to Damir Kreilach, who had every intention of shooting it himself.