Player Ratings: RSL 2-3 Phoenix Rising

Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports What even is pre-season?

Right?! Being that RSL is a week out from stepping on the pitch as a first-team MLS squad in Orlando I’m worried. Maybe I shouldn’t be, maybe there are really good reasons to start Aaron Herrera (our best home grown product of all time as a RB) out on the wing that we’re all missing, or maybe this is just one of those moments where I have to shut my beak and ‘trust the process’. Whatever it is I’m left stunned after seeing some of the things we’ve seen so far this pre-season.

As Real Salt Lake stepped onto the pitch in Scottsdale we were hoping to catch a glimpse of our starting 11 for the first time this preseason. What we got, instead,…