This will be the latest into a season that Real Salt Lake and Orlando City SC have ever met, with the previous six encounters all coming within both team’s first 20 games of the season. Real Salt Lake’s lone win over Orlando City SC (D3 L2) came in the last meeting between the teams in Utah, a 2-1 victory in April 2019.
Real Salt Lake is unbeaten in its last seven matches in all competitions (W5 D2) following its 1-0 win at Toronto FC. Real Salt Lake had gone 26 straight regular season matches without a shutout win prior to Saturday, the longest such drought in team history.
Orlando City SC notched a 4-0 home win over Toronto FC on Tuesday, which followed a 3-1 home win on Saturday. It is the club’s first time scoring three or more goals in consecutive MLS matches since June 2021. Additionally, Orlando City SC has never done so in three straight MLS matches.
Anderson Julio scored the game-winning goals in the 92nd minute in Real Salt Lake’s win over Toronto FC, his fifth goal in the 90th minute or later since joining MLS in 2021. That is the most such goals in the regular season by any MLS player over the last three seasons.
Including an assist in the win over Toronto FC, Ivan Angulo has five assists in his last seven MLS games, tied for the most of any player since the beginning of June (Douglas, Costa). Prior to his current run, Angulo had delivered three assists in 24 career MLS matches (including playoffs).
