Real Salt Lake Shreds Revs 3-0, Under Survives by the Skin of Its Teeth

So much for catastrophic form. Real Salt Lake torched New England 3-0 at home, turning DarkHorse's injury-riddled narrative completely on its head. The Revs arrived riding a 4-1 hot streak and supposedly unsustainable finishing luck—turns out they left all that finishing back in Foxborough.

RSL dominated from the opening whistle despite playing their second match in seven days on short rest. The depleted attack that had managed just 0.6 goals per game over their previous five suddenly looked clinical, finding the net three times while New England's vaunted recent form evaporated into the Utah night. Diego Luna, Juan Manuel Sanabria, Justen Glad, Juan Jose Arias—didn't matter who was missing. RSL's next-men-up carved through a Revolution backline that had no answers.

The under 3.0 pushed at exactly three goals, which feels almost generous given how thoroughly outclassed New England looked. DarkHorse nailed the low-scoring environment but missed RSL's ability to flip the script when it mattered. That +12.48 goals-versus-expected differential? Regression came calling with a vengeance. The Revs managed zero goals against a supposedly gutted defensive structure.

Sometimes the injury report tells you everything. Sometimes it tells you nothing. Tonight was the latter, and RSL made believers out of exactly nobody who doubted them.