Final: Sounders 1, Real Salt Lake 0, live chat, Desert Diamond Cup championship game

Sounders FC will face Real Salt Lake at 5 p.m. Saturday in the championship game of the Desert Diamond Cup. The game will be broadcast on the NBC Sports Network.

Seattle, as expected, is fielding a reserve-heavy lineup since the starters featured in Friday night’s exhibition against Mexico’s Veracruz.

According to Don Ruiz of The News Tribune, kickoff will be closer to 5:20 p.m. The game will also go straight to PKs after 90 minutes if tied.

Sounders FC lineup: GK Marcus Hahnemann, D Dylan Remick, D Eriq Zavaleta, D Ashani Fairclough, D Marc Burch, M Lamar Neagle, M Servando Carrasco, M Andy Rose, M Alex Caskey, F David Estrada, F Sammy Ochoa

Sounders FC bench: GK Josh Ford, D DeAndre Yedlin, F Babayele Sodade, M Stephen Okai, M Philip Lund, M Kevin Durr, F Travis Bowen, F Jennings Rex

Real Salt Lake lineup: GK Nick Rimando, D Tony Beltran, D Kwame Watson-Siriboe, D Chris Schuler, D Kenny Mansally, M Ned Grabavoy, M Kyle Beckerman, M Sebastian Velasquez, M Khari Stephenson, F Robbie Findley, F Alvaro Saborio.

Real Salt Lake bench: Saunders, Attinella, Fernandez, Palmer, Salcedo, Maund, Alvarez, Martinez, Stertzer, Grossman, Viana, Plata, Sandoval, Garcia, Allen, Balchan.

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Joshua Mayers joined The Seattle Times as a part-time news assistant in 2005 and took over the Sounders FC beat before the 2010 season. He is a native of Bellingham, Wash., and graduated from the University of Washington with a journalism degree in 2007.

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