Khano Smith is making scoring spectacular goals his speciality - especially against Real Salt Lake.

More than 18,000 fans witnessed the New England Revolution winger sprint 70 yards down the left wing before beating his man and sliding the ball across keeper DJ Countess with aplomb.

It was goal number three for the Major League Soccer rookie - another attempt by the former Dandy Town frontman to show boss Steve Nicol that he is worthy of a place in the starting line up.

“It was a nice goal, I guess I am just lucky that they are going in like that,” said Smith, who banged a powerful drive past Countess when the sides met last month at the Gillette Stadium.

“It is always good to get a goal like that but, to be honest, it is always just nice to score goals.

“Every time you get on the field, any player would want to prove they are good enough to be there and they are good enough to be in the starting line up, you just want to show what you've got.

“But more importantly, it was great that the goal got us the win. This isn't about me, it is about the team and scoring the goal was fantastic because it was the only goal of the game and it got us another win.

“We are having a bit of a record season at the moment and it is great to be part of a winning team.”

Smith, who is beginning to earn himself a bit of a reputation as a supersub, is part of team who have seven games left of regular season play with the possibility of clinching a berth for the post-season in as little as two games.

There would then be up to three play-off matches culminating in the MLS Cup in the second week of November, around the time Smith's new baby will be due.

“I think the due date is after the season ends but if we go all the way then I think it might be about the same time,” said the striker, picked up by the Revolution after impressing on the Eastern Conference leader's pre-season tour of the Island.

“That could be a pretty exciting time for me and my family but let's not worry about all of that until nearer November.”

With every week that goes by Smith is more and more at home in the high-tempo world of the MLS, with the days of travelling from St. John's Road to Devonshire Rec. replaced with six hours on a plane.

“I like the travelling part of it out here,” he continued after returning from the long trip down to Salt Lake City.

“Obviously not the physical travelling but the visiting new places bit. I don't think Utah is somewhere I would have ever have gone otherwise and the same goes for some of the other cities we have been to.

“It certainly makes a change from the short trips you do in Bermuda football, here you are travelling for up to six hours on a place with all your team-mates - it is a really different way of life.

“The fans down in Utah were great too. They don't have a lot of professional teams to support there, they were pretty loud and obviously were loving the chance to watch the game.

“It was fun for me to put my finger over my lips after I scored, they all took that pretty well.”

And Khano has had no problem adjusting to the different field markings that spoil the television coverage of MLS - with Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium the perfect example.

“You don't really notice the (American) football markings on the pitch,” he continued.

“I guess you don't really think about it when you are playing because you just look out for the yellow markings, although you can't always see them when you are watching the game on the screen.

“On the pitch, all you think about is the game, they are not confusing at all.”

The gridiron markings do make a difference for some people, however, Revs spokesman and radio commentator Brad Feldman joked that the extraneous markings made it easier for him to describe Smith's goal as a 70-yard dribble - “I knew I was right, I was counting the yards off as he ran.”