Real Salt Lake is facing off against a team that has more points over their last 11 games than any other team in MLS (26) — but for all the plaudits they’re receiving at this moment, they’ve only kept one clean sheet. In fact, Minnesota has just four clean sheets on the season to RSL’s eight, which should be your best indication that points and clean sheets are not always tied closely together.
Can RSL score? They have to. Can they avoid conceding? That’s a bigger question, and of their eight clean sheets on the season, only two have come in the last 11 games.