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Yura Movsisyan created Real Salt Lake's only goal Sunday with a little bit of cunning. The striker lurked quietly behind Sounders goalkeeper Stefan Frei, hoping he might set the ball on the ground. When he did, Movsisyan pounced, poking the ball away, dribbling around defenders and a scrambling Frei and slotting a pass to Joao Plata for a shot on the open net.

"I was kind of trying to stay behind him. Make him feel like I'm too lazy to run back," Movsisyan said. "That's one of those things you pull it off one in a million or one in 10,000. … I got lucky."

It was lucky.

It was also may have been against the rules.

As the Once a Metro blog pointed out, "a goalkeeper cannot be challenged by an opponent when in control of the ball with the hands" and Red Bulls striker Bradley Wright-Phillips was given a costly yellow card in the 2014 playoffs for doing the same thing. Read more about it here.

Lesson learned too slowly

Nicolas Lodeiro caused RSL all sorts of problems Sunday, scoring his first goal in Major League Soccer and notching an assist on a cross to Jordan Morris in the first half.

"I thought it took us a while to figure it out," RSL defender Tony Beltran said. "Their outside kids were coming inside and we were having difficulty passing them on. They were finding some dangerous space."

RSL knew Lodeiro could pose problems, but the Uruguayan found ways to make his imprint on the game regardless.

"He plays right wing and did everything from the left side of the field," RSL coach Jeff Cassar said when asked about the difference between his team's game planning for Lodeiro and how things actually played out on the field. "It's definitely team defending with him because you can't have someone follow him all over the field."

All yellow

Center back Justen Glad was involved in two big fouls, though neither ultimately hurt RSL on Sunday. Glad's foul inside the box gave Clint Dempsey a penalty in the 82nd minute, but the U.S. national teamer hit the woodwork with his shot. Then, in the game's final minutes, Glad was shown a yellow card for this hip check on Seattle's Erik Friberg.

"I wasn't trying to do anything malicious or anything," Glad said afterward. "I thought I was going to get there. He took a touch and was in on goal. I kind of had to do what I had to do. Made sure he was all right after the play. I thought he was OK."

After the game, Seattle coach Brian Schmetzer told reporters he had no update on Friberg.

"I hadn't had a chance really," the coach said. "I just made sure he was breathing."

— Aaron Falk

afalk@sltrib.com

Twitter: @aaronfalk