Real Salt Lake 2-0 Colorado Rapids

Real Salt Lake return to the top of the Western Conference with a comfortable 2-0 win over Colorado Rapids at Rio Tinto Stadium.

By Robert Summerscales, Reporter

Published: April 8 2012 | 04:01

Last updated: April 8 2012 | 14:19

Real Salt Lake have returned to the top of the Western Conference with a comfortable 2-0 win over Colorado Rapids at Rio Tinto Stadium.

The hosts started brightly and, after Luis Gil had headed wide from six yards, they took the lead 20 minutes in.

Alvaro Saborio collected Tony Beltran's pass and thumped the ball into the top corner from 12 yards.

Sebastian Velasquez should have doubled the lead 10 minutes before half time but he skewed his shot wide after good work from Kyle Beckerman.

The second goal duly came 12 minutes into the second half. Gil slid a perfect through pass into the path of Fabian Espindola and the Argentinean smashed the ball beyond the helpless Matt Pickens.

San Jose Earthquakes had temporarily replaced Jason Kreis's side as the league leaders on goal difference following a 3-1 win over Vancouver Whitecaps.

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Eastern Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Inter Miami Inter Miami	34	22	8	4	79	49	30	74
2	Columbus Crew	34	19	9	6	72	40	32	66
3	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	34	18	5	11	58	48	10	59
4	Orlando City	34	15	7	12	59	50	9	52
5	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	34	14	9	11	46	37	9	51
6	New York City FC NY City	34	14	8	12	54	49	5	50
7	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	34	11	14	9	55	50	5	47
8	CF Montreal Montreal	34	11	10	13	48	64	-16	43
9	Atlanta United Atlanta	34	10	10	14	46	49	-3	40
10	DC United	34	10	10	14	52	70	-18	40
11	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	34	9	10	15	62	55	7	37
12	Toronto	34	11	4	19	40	61	-21	37
13	Nashville SC Nashville	34	9	9	16	38	54	-16	36
14	New England Revolution New England	34	9	4	21	37	74	-37	31
15	Chicago Fire	34	7	9	18	40	62	-22	30

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	34	19	7	8	63	43	20	64
2	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	34	19	7	8	69	50	19	64
3	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	34	16	11	7	65	48	17	59
4	Seattle Sounders Seattle	34	16	9	9	51	35	16	57
5	Houston Dynamo Houston	34	15	9	10	47	39	8	54
6	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	34	15	7	12	58	49	9	52
7	Colorado Rapids Colorado	34	15	5	14	61	60	1	50
8	Portland Timbers Portland	34	12	11	11	65	56	9	47
9	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	34	13	8	13	52	49	3	47
10	Austin FC Austin	34	11	9	14	39	48	-9	42
11	Dallas	34	11	8	15	54	56	-2	41
12	St Louis City	34	8	13	13	50	63	-13	37
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	34	8	7	19	51	66	-15	31
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	34	6	3	25	41	78	-37	21