Ran Binyamin ripped a shot from outside the box into the right corner of the net in the 90th minute for the game-winner in FC Dallas’ wild 4-3 victory over Real Salt Lake on Wednesday in Sandy, Utah.
Binyamin, who entered the game as a substitute at the beginning of the second half, scored his first MLS goal to help the Toros (9-5-6, 33 points) win their second straight road game and improve to 2-1-2 since the World Cup break.
RSL (8-7-4, 28 points) remains winless in MLS play since the break, losing for the third time in five matches with two draws.
The Toros ruled the match’s opening 22 minutes, bursting out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Joaquin Valiente and Petar Musa. On the first, Valiente passed deep into the offensive zone before working his way to a favorable spot just outside the center of the box as the ball moved from Musa to Ramiro Benetti.
Benetti then bounced a pass off an RSL defender and right to the left foot of Valiente, who whipped it into the middle-left of the goal past goalkeeper Rafael Cabral to give Dallas a 1-0 lead in the 17th minute.
Musa doubled the lead just three minutes later when he leapt over an RSL defender at the far post to head home a curving pass from far outside the box by Valiente, who had received the ball after an assist by Bernard Kamungo.
Sergi Solans got the home side on the scoreboard in the 38th minute with a blistering shot through traffic that Dallas keeper Jonathan Sirois had little chance to stop after a sterling pass on a free kick by Diego Luna.
But Musa had more to offer, turning around another pass from Valiente and beating Cabral to the bottom-right corner in the 45th minute to push his goal total to a league-leading 16. The play sent FC Dallas to a 3-1 lead at the break.
Salt Lake roared back to tie the game in the first 19 minutes of the second half. Morgan Guilavogui started the rally with a nifty goal in the 50th minute on a pass from Noel Caliskan after an assist by Luna.
Luna then provided the equalizer, taking a pass by Saba Lobjanidze in the 64th minute and beating Sirois to the top-left corner. Guilavogui also got an assist for the pass that began the scoring play.
–Field Level Media
