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RSL eyes top spot in league against Seattle

Wed 8th, September 2010

Seattle, WA (Sports Network) - Real Salt Lake entered this season as defending Major League Soccer champions, and according to midfielder Andy Williams, they also had a few goals in mind.

"At the beginning of the year, we had our goals where we had four trophies to play for," Williams told mlssoccer.com. "Unfortunately, we got knocked out of the Open Cup, and so we have three [goals] right now."

One of those goals is to retain the MLS Cup title the team won last season, while the club is also involved in the CONCACAF Champions League.

But the third goal is not as easy to recognize because it is for RSL to win the Supporters' Shield, which is something they hope to move closer to with a win over Seattle Sounders FC at Qwest Field on Thursday.

Real enters the match one point back of both the Columbus Crew and the Los Angeles Galaxy for the most points in MLS, and according to defender Nat Borchers, winning the Supporters' Shield would be a big accomplishment for his team.

"To win the Supporters' Shield would be a fantastic thing to put in our trophy case," he said. "It's one of the toughest things in sports to do: to say that you were the best team over the entire season."

RSL has put together a good run of form that has helped them pull to within a point of the Galaxy in the West, and they bring not only a seven-game unbeaten streak into the contest, but a streak of three successive clean sheets spanning 352 minutes.

Seattle is more concerned with just making the playoffs as opposed to finishing the regular season with the most points, and after losing 3-1 to the New England Revolution last time out, which snapped a seven-game unbeaten streak, the club is in need of three points.

The Sounders are currently in sixth place in the Western Conference table, but they sit only two points back of fourth-place Colorado with six games still remaining after Thursday's contest.