Pablo Ruiz scores beautiful purpose from his OWN HALF as Actual Salt Lake beat DC United in MLS

Pablo Ruiz scored a sensational purpose from simply inside his personal half of the sector as visiting Real Salt Lake continued their robust away kind with a 2-1 victory in opposition to 10-man D.C. United on Saturday night time.

Early within the second half, Danny Musovski added what stood because the match-winning purpose for Salt Lake (6-7-5, 23 factors), which accomplished an MLS-best-tying fourth street win of the season.

Ruiz’s memorable purpose was his fourth, matching the workforce lead for the Claret and Cobalt, who’ve scored a number of objectives in all 4 of their away victories.

It was solely Salt Lake’s second MLS win in 12 all-time visits to Washington.

Chris Durkin scored his second purpose of the season for D.C. United, who misplaced back-to-back matches for the primary time since March.

Pablo Ruiz was mobbed by his teammates for his sensational purpose for Actual Salt Lake 

D.C. United goalkeeper Tyler Miller tries desperately to maintain out Ruiz’s unbelievable strike 

The hosts performed the ultimate 64-plus minutes short-handed after defender Steven Birnbaum was despatched off for a foul on Musovski that was dominated to have denied an apparent goal-scoring alternative.

Regardless of Birnbaum’s ejection, D.C. (6-8-5, 23 factors) created extra probabilities than RSL within the first half till a magical second from Ruiz modified the whole lot.

As Salt Lake collected itself close to midfield, Ruiz took a move from Andrew Brody, appeared up and seen D.C. goalkeeper Tyler Miller off his line.

From there, together with his third contact, Ruiz drove a left-footed shot from a step or two inside his personal aspect of the midfield stripe that sailed about 60 yards over the retreating Miller and into the highest proper nook of the purpose.

Musovski doubled RSL’s lead six minutes into the second half after a turnover by D.C.’s Lewis O’Brien. Jasper Loffelsend performed the ball down the fitting aspect to Andres Gomez, who drove in a low cross towards the close to publish.

That is the place Musovski met the ball, hammering it in stride on his first contact previous Miller and inside the fitting publish.

Durkin acquired a purpose again almost instantly for D.C., taking a layoff from Ruan contained in the penalty space and ending previous Zac MacMath.

However the house aspect struggled to generate many equalizing alternatives from there with their numerical drawback.

Elsewhere in MLS,  New York Metropolis FC tied 1-1 with Columbus, New England beat Orland 3-1 whereas LAFC beat Sporting KC 2-1 and Nashville beat St Louis 2-1.