Postgame Show: Seattle Sounders vs. Houston Dynamo 5-10

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Well for the Sounders it's a big road dub In Texas three to one over Houston tonight. As Seattle get all three points, they get goals from Albert Rusnak two of them and Danny Mazowski his fifth goal in his many games. He joins the squad of Oba Heemi, Martin's, Freddie Montero and Roll Ruy.

Diez is the only.

Four players in club history to score goals in five consecutive games. The moose continues to be loose. Let nobody keep the moose contained anytime soon. As we welcome you into the postmatch show. Jackson Feltzpete viewing Diego audio here for the next half hour. However long we go talking about the Sounders win tonight, and of course we cannot really kind of get this thing going without of course

Let's just get some overall thoughts.

Boys on the win in Texas, the second half where we saw a lot of successes playing a man up.

Pete, I'll start with you.

I like that. We've got three goals. We've got three goals.

We've got four goals in the one before this, A couple of games back with Nashville three win over LAFC. Stevie and Danny we're talking about off season was one of the things was to try to get goals in this club.

I think we're finding them. I love the wing play.

Holy cow right, we talked, you've got Rothrock gets an assist as soon as de la Vega comes on the field in the forty six minute, he gets an assist. Kent gets two assists. Really at Georgia, Mannugo was wildly dangerous. We've got a very dynamic team wide. I love Albert Rusnak coming from deep to finish off those chances.

Both those chances he came.

We had a runner going early getting to that near post, which creates a little space that Albert filled very nicely and tucked both of his chances away. So a really good win. You got to give Houston credit for hanging in there. That didn't make it easy. Their goal was a really good goal. But yeah, that little excapade with the with the red card and the penalty kick no penalty kick kind of flipped the game. But as Diego's said at halftime, it was a new game in the

Yeah, totally.

We were talking about keys to the game before the match, right starting with the right foot, and that's how the second half started. Right a minute in and we see Albert Rusnak disclosing the play and scoring quickly. I love to see to your point, Pete scoring goals definitely, but also see that dynamic team that you can tell these Sounders are different from the Sounders who started the season.

That you have a rockie start.

And now we're also even talking and during the call Danny and Steve, they're talking about the bench and the powerful bench that we have. We haven't seen that in a while, to be honest, in terms of Saunders, that who can come in and can change the entire game. We saw pederl ly la Vega as soon as he started and he was hot. And also Albert Rosnack to your point, love to see a box two box type of player closing those plays and scoring. And also I have to say I love to see Stephen Fry in

So love to see a good say that's.

What you need. You need your goalie to make. You need him to do his job.

And make you know, cluck crosses and be clean there and be good with his feet and all that.

But you need to make one goal saving, say.

Because if Houston score that, it's a three. Change the suddenly and we're looking at an entirely different situation.

That's exactly right, Pete. But quickly, Diego.

You were talking about the slow start, right, and it was very much a slow start.

But it's funny.

March twenty second, we faced Houston at home and that game was a zero zero draw. After that we got a one to one drag in San Jose. We got a late goal from Rusnak to equalize that. Then a three nothing lost at San Diego. But since then, win over Dallas, win over Nashville, draw to Colorado that I still think should have been a win if refereeing was my my taste, win over Saint Louis, win over Houston.

Yeah, I mean, it is what it is, right at the end of the day, if it's about calling, it happens to both teams. In this case, it happened to be in favor for the Sounders and good for the Sounders at the end of the day. The second half they took the game like nothing happened and they really went for it. So that really changed to me the perspective.

But I think.

Aside of that, and yeah, Houston reporters or they Houston the team can be upset obviously, right.

At the end of the day, the Sounders.

That they had a really professional second half and to get how they should and also to Houston's greer and Pete's mentioned Houston also had a few chances, we have to say in the second half, right they they were so close, that's say from Stephen Fry and then there are a couple other opportunities that they just hit the ball, you know, over the bar.

But yeah, yeah, I like McGlenn.

He's twenty one, crafty, confident, really got a good left foot, and we'll get better and better. You know, you got to deal the cards you're dealt I understand Houston very upset about that. I liked what Stevie said about that there's gonna be two different beach is one Ben Elsen in the Houston locker room and Brian Schweitzer in the Sounders.

So I want to go player by player for a few different guys I want to talk about in our next segment. Before we do that, I'll quickly mention that with the two goals, Tonight's Toyota Man of the Match is Albert Rusnak. Your local Toyota Doers are proud to

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We'll go to break continue talking about the Sounders three to one win tonight over the Houston Dynamo down in Texas. More Next in the postmatch show, Sports Radio ninety three point three kjrfmday comes Rothrock right corner of the box, towards the endline.

He goes closed down. Now back Anon and.

It's Massovski fifth goal in five games.

Can you believe it?

Missovsky in a rich Fain of Form.

The Play of the match is presented by Emerald Queen Casino, the betting capital of the Northwest. As Danny Mzowski fifth in five, he joins Obath, Emmy Martin's, Freddy Montero Rollruy Diaz, the four of them the only four to score goals in five consecutive games.

Pete, I don't know what else to say. It's the Moose just can't stop scoring well.

When he came to Seattle a couple of years ago, I asked Brian, how many goals do you think he's going to get?

And I thought he would say eight, because he had.

A pretty good run with LA, had a pretty good run with RSL, and so I thought he would he's capable of this. What I loved about the goal today is his run is to the near post. He takes Ethan Bartlow to the near post and then he fades back about two or three yards. Bartlow doesn't catch it, and so now he's got a wide open header that's a lot easier to miss than to make.

But it was that run that he made that was terrific.

So he has done a really good job of you know, that was probably his third touch of the game, by the way.

Yeah, when you got that goal.

But that's you know, we had Chance Fry, and Chance Fry scored a lot of goals, and he could do nothing for eighty nine minutes and then score a goal. And it's and I remember coming to locker room one day and there's the program for the next game and it's Chance. Someone's holding him up and he's got, you know, one finger in the air, and Bernie James is saying you did nothing the entire game and yelling at him, and here you're on the cover of the program and

Yeah, he loved it. He didn't care. We had a game.

Where Alex Uh rolled on, scored, smashed a great volley and then Danny Massovski came and tied it back up Uh to make go one to.

One, and then they got a PK. We got a PK and then we won the game.

But Danny is just he's a very good goal scorer.

And again I said it earlier.

I think Brian Schmetzer leaving him on the game after getting two good chances in the first half first half last week and then getting a third chance and giving him a little more time to get that goal. I think that gave him the confidence. So uh, and I was surprised Brian left him one. He may still be wanting to get more out of him, but he's gonna go play his old team in La.

So yeah, that's gonna be a great match.

No.

I I love to see Vanovskis scording again. I mean it's funny always. We were talking before the game. Yeah, it's it's you know, even Brian Schmetz like I wouldn't bet on it he doesn't score, he did and know easily. And now we have daniels Howsky one if he scores again, right and just beating all records.

With Oba is the only player I believe it's the only person to do it six games, so right now he has the chance to join.

I thought, if you're a Sounders, you know, longtime fan, especially the MLS era, when you say Freddy, go Freddy Montero, right when you say Oba, you go Oba?

Femi Martins.

And then yeah like Jordan and now yeah just known by Danny you.

Just yeah if you just called him Danny and say Danny who.

Yeah now but now though now immortality that list.

But just to add from uh Pete what you were saying, and it's all about when you're a forward, it's it's about that keep up that momentum, right, and that that confidence as well, and I and I think that's why also he stayed longer in the pitch. But also to me, it's not easy to be a forward because you really, you know, you're kind for scoring goals at the right moment at the right time. And that run that you mentioned, it's just perfect right the way. It's really hard to

I mean, we will remember.

That run in the fifty eighth minute where he has the assist to Albert Rusnack, but for so much more in this game, we're considering continuing Pete to see the quality and the magic that Ryan Kent can create. We're looking at a guy who starred for Rangers a few years back, and this is a guy who is clearly coming in at a different level than a lot of MLS defenders, and he's showing his different level on so many different plays.

Well, we heard from Stephen Fry when he got there and for Brian Schmetzer that he just is relentless running app players over and over. His final product is what I really love, and I think it's elevated the entire winger core because everybody's picking people out instead of just getting a cross in. It's not enough just to get I got my cross in. I got six crosses in. Did you pick somebody out? Did you cut it back?

He's making Georgie do the exact same thing.

Pedro de la Vega came in with a real spark in the second half, and I think it's because he sees what other guys are doing.

He wants to be a part of it.

Yeah, And I think I think for Coachmetz, it's it's the options that you have on the wings. If you add now Kent and having that experience, he has so much experience on the way he runs. It's really smart running right. He doesn't run just for the case of running, or like you see with Minongu that it's a lot of power. It's still young, but I think it's just always the right decisions and it's not easy to be a winger, especially to finish those those crosses, but also

He has a repertoire and he's not predictable. That's what's fun. He can beat you going down the line, he can beat you coming inside. He has Danny.

Jackson said, what a nightmare to go from having Ryan Kent running at you for forty five minutes for Dorsey and then then Georgie coming in or however long he was on for sixties sixty five minutes. So yeah, I like him, I just think, and he's having fun. Yeah, that's a great sign his love.

He said it now a few times, including the Danny earlier this week. His love of football is back, and you can you can see that love and that joy playing. And boy he is a I mean, right now they have because Paul Rothrock also was pretty good in his forty God assists. So right now you have Rothrock, you have Kent, you have Georgie, you have Ferrera, who can play a few different spots.

Caedro. The list goes on and on and on.

I feel like I'm missing somebody, but still the list goes on and on and on, and these guys are all competing for just a couple of spots because you have Albert in the middle, and Albert in the middle isn't going anywhere, so we're just talking about those two winger spots, and that list I just gave was five deep and could probably be longer if you you know

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Sounders win.

Sounders win three one down in Houston against the Dynamo tonight. Two goals from your Toyota Man of the match Albert Rusnak and Daniel Mazowski scoring his fifth in five games. Good performance all around from the Sanders, who now come home for a very very short stretch before leaving again on Tuesday because they have a busy week. First, it's the LA It's not the It's LAFC on Wednesday. That's gonna be right here. Sports Radio ninety three point three

So busy week for Seattle.

And you know, it's interesting kind of to continue the conversation about the depth right now. Winger Brian was able to make a lot of different substitutes in the second half, and he's gonna have a lot of choices and options for how to structure these next two big road games.

Well he is.

This is where his man management skill is going to pay off, and his relationship with his players is going to pay off. They all know, they're all competitors. They all know that they've got to do the job. I mean, every single one of them knows that it's about going out and producing, doing the defensive work, doing all the running that you need to do, and then you've got to serve quality balls. You've got to get on the end of balls as well, and you have to do

Torture them per And I think you're playing against an ala that they're playing tomorrow against the best team in the Western Conference, that's Vancouver. And also LAFC will know that they're going to be playing an important match at the end of the month against Globe America right for that spot for the FIFA Club World Cup, So to me, they're also looking at some rotation as well. So that to me, it's it's an advantage for Seattle Saunders in that sense. And also they come off after this game

But you can as you can if you think about it too, right. That's how we're gonna end this show by simply answering this question. Does Danny join OBA six and six? A?

Why not?

That was not that sure?

That was sure?

I would say yeah, yes, because you always a score against your former team and that's LAFC, so.

I took to make up for you.

I'll say an emphatic hell, yes, he's going to make it six and six.

The moose cannot be stopped. He cannot be contained.

You can only hope and pray that he doesn't score two on you, because he's gonna get one. All right, Sounders win tonight, l a FC coming up next, that's Wednesday, seven o'clock right here, ninety three point three kJ RFM. Look forward to that match. I want to thank everybody with tonight's broadcast p fewing diggo audio here on pre half post. Jordan Thompson and Kiey Dunning are broadcast producers.