Houston Dynamo vs. Real Salt Lake match preview

Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesReal Salt Lake kicks off the 2022 campaign on Sunday against Houston Dynamo, a team roundly picked to finish around the bottom of the Western Conference.

But with RSL down a handful of important players — Aaron Herrera, Everton Luiz, Rubio Rubin, and potentially even Damir Kreilach — and without two of 2021’s top scorers in Anderson Julio and Albert Rusnak, the team will take on a certain shorthanded look.

What RSL needs to do to win

It’s simple, really. Real Salt Lake needs to score, and they need to score early. There’s a lot of pressure on both of these teams — it’s a season opener, after all — and it looks an awful lot like RSL…