The first half definitely didn't go as planned. Real Salt Lake came in with what looked like a pretty strong lineup on paper. However, they were unable to string together a lot of good passes and Wilmington intercepted many of their attempts at build up and used their speedy forwards to spring an attack. Outside of a goal line save from Aaron Maund, some corner kicks, and some individual effort from Burrito Martinez, not much was working. Wilmington took advantage of the lackluster play and Corboz nabbed a goal to take a 1-0 lead.
Shortly into the second half Jeff Cassar brought on Movsisyan and Plata to inject some offense.