by Greg Seltzer for Soccer365

It's probably very easy to become distracted by thoughts of glory when your club is set to battle for a league crown never won before, but Real Salt Lake forwards Robbie Findley and Yura Movsisyan have managed to keep focus on their prime ambition: finding MLS Cup foe Los Angeles' net on Sunday.

The pair believe that if they can do their jobs to score goals against the Galaxy at Seattle's Qwest Field, the silver will come as a reward.

(photo: Rogue Cavaliers Brigade)

No one could blame either for a quick daydream about the potential thrill of becoming champions, of carrying MLS Cup back to Salt Lake City - but it's a bit like one of my favorite silly wordplay jokes. It's not that they have one-track minds, it's just that they only have one train currently running.

"You think about (winning the title), but I don't want to look too far past the game," Findley told Soccer365. "We're just trying to focus on what we need to do to get that trophy back here."

For Real Salt Lake, their "need to do" list involves continuing business as usual to rack up scoring chances, regardless of the event. The club has excelled working in volume and topped MLS in shots on goal for the second straight season in 2009.

"It doesn't matter that it's the final or the playoffs, because for us it's been like finals even before the playoffs started," said Movsisyan. "It's important that we do what we do best: attack and play good soccer."

"We need to go in there with our game plan, ya know? Do what we usually do."

Added Finley, "I think we just need to stay busy. They have a couple of big guys in their center back positions. We need to pull them out of position to find spaces to get into."

The two are used to being insistent on the Royal Army's front line, an approach Movsisyan says is naturally encouraged by having an ex-forward for a boss. Formerly the top career MLS scorer for about three years, the 108 league goals head coach Jason Kreis scored for FC Dallas and RSL during his playing days still rank third all-time.

"If you look at our forwards, we have aggressive forwards that are not afraid to shoot," offered Movsisyan. "We like to hit it from anywhere. It helps to have a coach that was a forward because it helps with that mentality."

Findley allowed that Kreis' playing past may impact the strikers some, but posited that most of their offense is actually a direct product of work done at the other end of the field.

"I think a lot of our opportunities come from playing good defense," he said. "We'll have a good play on defense, and from that we create a chance for the forwards."

The 24-year old is enjoying a purple patch of form right now, with six goals and three assists from the last nine games. As one could imagine, Findley is very grateful for the timing of this big match - both for himself and the squad as a whole.

"I feel really confident right now," he states plainly, clearly unwilling to count chickens. "The team feels really confident. We've won four games in a row.

One may also assume the fact that RSL have scored precisely two goals each of the last seven times they faced Los Angeles would build additional confidence for the strike tandem, but each insisted that Sunday's game is not so much a new chapter as it is a whole new book.

"I think it gets wiped fresh," Findley says of the slate between the two teams. "The two games we played in the regular season (a 2-2 Rio Tinto draw and a 2-0 victory in Los Angeles) are done and gone."

"This is going to be a totally different game. We are playing for everything here."

"We know the MLS Cup final is a different story," agreed Movsisyan. "Then again, we know we can score goals and we know we can score goals in numbers."

The 22-year old, obtained from Kansas City at the 2007 trade deadline, has managed to raise his own numbers each season in MLS.

Sunday, however, marks his final RSL match - at least for the time being. Movsisyan has already inked a pre-deal to join Danish top flighters Randers FC in January, and says he is all set up for the perfect goodbye.

"I've had a pretty alright three years in MLS," he said. "Every year I got better and scored more goals. It's definitely a good sendoff for me. I don't think anyone could have asked anything more."

Findley, who has also had some interest from Denmark in the past, will most likely be back. Still, he doesn't need for it to be his last RSL game to be the most significant.

"It's gonna be a tough game," he says in a voice surely much calmer than his nerves of anticipation. "The atmosphere is just gonna be crazy."

Naturally, by "atmosphere" Findley meant the Sunday scene at Qwest Field, with the crowd expected to top 40,000. But he would also have been correct by referring that claim to the Galaxy 18-yard box.

With Los Angeles lining up former U.S. World Cup man Gregg Berhalter and newly crowned MLS Rookie of the Year Omar Gonzalez in the the heart of defense, opponent goals have been at a high premium. The Galaxy have posted a shutout in five of their last six games and nine of their last 12.

Nevertheless, the way Real Salt Lake is playing, Movsisyan claims the onus is on L.A. to stop them - and not the other way around.

"Us forwards definitely know what their weaknesses are and what their strengths are, and we have to play accordingly to that," he stated.

"But ya know what? We are not going to worry as much about their weaknesses and strengths. We're going to worry about our strengths and make them worry about us."

Soccer365 reporter Greg Seltzer blogs daily over at No Short Corners.

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