The lack of answers might be attributed to a team that simply didn’t have enough healthy pieces in positions that would have given the team the best chance to win. They simply didn’t have an answer on the day. Maybe some credit should go to an RSL side that defended doggedly, and rarely seemed interested in coming out of their own half of the field, but nothing they did should have surprised the Sounders, as Cristian Roldan noted after the game. Again, the Sounders were dominant in this match, but the whole thing was never cohesive.
Specifically, although the team managed its way through a potentially catastrophic injury crisis that also made it nearly impossible to adequately put the team in the best position to perform their best. rest debate, a better question might be whether the Sounders simply ran out of time to fix what ailed them. Here are some thoughts from the game: Out of timeĬircling back to the rust vs. But the autopsy on the season can wait for another day after the pain of an unexpected early exit from the postseason subsides. They won’t be alone with those thoughts over the next six weeks, as the fans and front office try to assess how such a promising season went off the rails. That’s where the Sounders will be until next year, wondering what could have been. And when you leave your fate up to the PK gods, sometimes they answer the call, and sometimes they leave you on hold. But on the day, it just wasn’t happening.Īfter 90 minutes, there wasn’t anything to separate the sides. It wasn’t for lack of effort, it wasn’t for lack of opportunities - though one could argue about the quality of those chances.
The point of the match is to put the ball in the back of the net, and the Sounders couldn’t do it. In fact they dominated in just about every facet of the game. The Seattle Sounders didn’t play poorly against Real Salt Lake Tuesday evening at Lumen Field. Sports is a results-oriented business, so the argument will always be colored by the result.Īnd results don’t get more gut-wrenching than this. Whether an extended break is better than playing right away is always in part a backwards-looking discussion. SEATTLE - Rest versus rust is an eternal debate in sports, particularly when playoff season rolls around.