Sounder at Heart

As has been my troubling pattern as of late, I’m behind on getting this form out. And let’s be honest, the league isn’t doing me any favors with this fixture congestion. While a 1-0 loss in Frisco, Texas, may not be the match any of us want to rate, it’s the match we’ve got.

Get those ratings in ASAP! We’ll be hustling to get ratings posted before the Sounders up and pl...

The Seattle Sounders deserve plenty of credit for arresting their slide and turning around their fortunes.

Following a brutal 13-game winless skid, which included a franchise-worst eight straight losses, they ignited their season with a nine-match unbeaten streak highlighted by four consecutive victories, before their momentum was halted by a 1–0 defeat to FC Dallas on ...

At some point, the unbeaten streak was bound to end. That it happened on a night when the Seattle Sounders actually looked pretty good, may have even been a good thing if we’re inclined to look for positives.

The difference in the Sounders’ 1–0 loss to FC Dallas on Wednesday was not that the gameplan fell apart or that rotation and fixture congestion got the best of the...

Despite accruing nearly double the xG of FC Dallas, the Seattle Sounders lost for the first time in 10 games. The 1–0 loss also ended an eight-game unbeaten run against FC Dallas.

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Back in April amidst a banner start to their Major League Soccer season, Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer bristled at a post-game question about his rotation and larger lineup management during a tricky two-game week.

“I’m gonna try and break that narrative before I leave the club at some point," he said. "People are going to say I sub because it’s the right...