In a trend that’s been all-too frequent, Real Salt Lake will be without one of its midfielders against Portland Timbers tomorrow after Luke Mulholland was handed a one-match suspension for a non-carded tackle.
The tackle came in the 57th minute against Emmanuel Boateng, and Mulholland was shown no card on the play.
The tackle was certainly a crunching one, and Mulholland definitely got Boateng from behind. But it’s increasingly clear that this sort of thing is going unpunished in the match aside from a foul call.
A spokesperson from RSL Communications confirmed the suspension, which puts RSL in again a tricky position.