After the first 45 minutes of Real Salt Lake’s loss to Sporting Kansas City on Sunday, it would have been easy to think the game was over. It would have been easy to think RSL’s season was over. It would have been easy to assume the team would just give up in a sudden realization that it was overmatched and its luck had run out.
But to assume that is also to assume RSL is the type of team that lays down, that gives up, that accepts what the outside world says about it.
If anything can be said about the 2018 version of Real Salt Lake, it’s this: All season long, Real has proven the exact opposite.