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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. \u2013 If there was ever a club the New England Revolution was glad to be seeing less of when the MLS schedule switched in 2012 so they only played Western Conference teams once a year, Real Salt Lake was probably it. After some early struggles as an expansion side that entered the league in 2005, Salt Lake won MLS Cup in 2009 and heading into Saturday night, hadn’t\u00a0lost to New England since, becoming one of the most consistently good teams in MLS along the way.<\/p>\n

The Revolution managed a 3-1 home win over Salt Lake on August 23rd, 2009, but since then had\u00a0gone winless against their foes from Utah, with an ugly 0-6-1 record since 2009 heading into Saturday night’s match-up.<\/p>\n

“I told the guys I think the last time we beat them I was on the field so that\u2019s not a good thing,” said Revolution head coach Jay Heaps, who played for the Revolution from 2001 until retiring in 2009.<\/p>\n

Not only did Salt Lake have an impressive record against New England, but they handed the club some of its most lopsided defeats in history. On April\u00a025, 2009, they crushed New England 6-0 at\u00a0Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah. They followed that up the next year with a 5-0 win against the Revolution at Gillette Stadium on July 2, 2010. More recently, the games have been closer, but Salt Lake had still rattled off three straight 2-1 victories from 2012 to 2014 over the then Heaps-led Revolution. No matter how it was framed, history was against the Revolution heading into Saturday night’s game.<\/p>\n

84′ – @RealSaltLake<\/a> have won 3 consecutive @MLS<\/a> meetings with NE at Gillette, twice scoring the game winner in the 84′ or later. Heroics.<\/p>\n

\u2014 OptaJack (@OptaJack) April 25, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n