Real Salt Lake crush St. Louis City 3-0 in MLS

Real Salt Lake secured a big 3-0 win over visiting St. Louis City in the match played as part of Matchday 31 of the MLS for the 2026 season, on 25 October at 05:30 Saudi Arabia (Damascus) time.

Solans opened the scoring for Real Salt Lake in the 41st minute, before St. Louis City suffered a major blow with the sending off of Tomáš Ostrák in the 43rd minute. The hosts capitalised on their numerical advantage by adding a second goal through Dominik Marczuk in the 52nd minute, before Solans completed his personal brace and his team's third goal in the 59th minute.

Solans was named Man of the Match with a rating of 8.9, after playing 68 minutes and scoring two goals.

Real Salt Lake dominated proceedings with 60 percent possession compared to 40 percent for St. Louis City, and had 20 shots compared to just 3 for their visitors, including 8 shots on target compared to two. The expected goals rate stood at 3.64 for Real Salt Lake compared to 0.17 for St. Louis City. The hosts won 7 corner kicks compared to none for their visitors, while Real Salt Lake committed 18 fouls compared to 9 for St. Louis City, and referee Drew Fischer issued two yellow cards to Real Salt Lake and one yellow card as well as the red card to St. Louis City.

With this result, St. Louis City sit second in the Western Conference with 51 points from 30 matches, having achieved 14 wins and 9 draws and suffered 7 losses, scoring 56 goals and conceding 41 goals.

In contrast, Real Salt Lake are in tenth place in the Western Conference with 36 points from 30 matches, after achieving 10 wins and 6 draws and suffering 14 losses, scoring 45 goals with their goal conceding 48 goals.