Jefferson Savarino celebrates after his objective for Actual Salt Lake within the match in opposition to Orlando Metropolis on the America First Area in Sandy on Saturday, July 8, 2023. Megan Nielsen, Deseret Information
SANDY, Utah (AP) — Pablo Ruiz had three assists as Actual Salt Lake obtained targets from 4 completely different gamers in a 4-0 victory over Orlando Metropolis on Saturday night time.
Zac MacMath completed with 4 saves to earn the clear sheet for Actual Salt Lake (9-7-6) because the membership upped its unbeaten run in all competitions to eight straight.
Orlando Metropolis (9-6-7) entered play having scored three or extra targets in back-to-back matches for the primary time since June of 2021.
Actual Salt Lake improves to 6-0-2 in its final eight matches. The membership was coming off a 1-0 victory over Toronto FC. The clear sheet ended a club-record 27 regular-season matches with no shutout.
Cristian Arango gave Actual Salt Lake the lead for good when he took a cross from Ruiz and scored his first objective of the season in his first profession match with the membership. Arango tallied 30 targets over the previous two seasons for Los Angeles FC.
Ruiz picked up one other help within the forty first minute on defender Justen Glad’s fourth netter of the marketing campaign to present RSL a 2-0 lead at halftime.
Jefferson Savarino scored for a fifth time this season, utilizing assists from Bryan Oviedo and Andrew Brody within the 78th minute to make it 3-0. Anderson Julio’s third objective of the season got here off a closing help from Ruiz, finishing the scoring within the 89th minute.
Pedro Gallese saved two pictures for Orlando Metropolis.
The all-time sequence sits at 2-2-3. RSL’s earlier win within the sequence was a 2-1 victory at dwelling in April of 2019.
Actual Salt Lake travels to play Sporting Kansas Metropolis on Wednesday. Orlando Metropolis travels to play Atlanta United on Saturday.