Austin FC advance to conference semifinals in epic playoff debut.
If there was a script for Austin FC’s first MLS Cup Playoff game, it surely did not include conceding two Real Salt Lake goals in the opening 15 minutes.
Who wouldn’t want to watch that screenplay? A near-three-hour epic from opening kickoff to RSL winger Tate Schmitt’s clinching penalty miss that landed somewhere in Bastrop County, if it landed at all, seen by 20,578 in person and countless more in homes and bars around the Texas capital. Quite the premiere for the MLS Cup Playoffs in ATX.
However, the home side still trailed at halftime, when Wolff opted for a triple-substitution of attacking players. That much, he could control. What he couldn’t anticipate was RSL striker Rubio Rubin, already on a yellow card, torpedoing after a hopeless ball toward Stuver and catching the goalkeeper forcibly enough to draw a second yellow and ensuing red card in the 52nd minute. Stuver did his part to make sure the contact didn’t go unnoticed.
Small price to pay for reducing the opponent to 10 men. RSL hardly saw the ATX half of the field from that point on, reverting to an ultra-low block of all-out defense that survived every Verde attack through normal time. Midseason DP acquisition Emiliano Rigoni helped the RSL cause by missing two A+ chances in front of goal, one of which brought back memories of USA’s Chris Wondolowski at the 2014 World Cup.
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