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For the first time since the Seattle Sounders joined Major League Soccer, your Sounders have won a penalty kick shootout at Luomin Field. The last time they won a PK shootout in this stadium was when I believe Danny Jackson, who just called the all thing, was on the field playing for the team. But finally, after so many years, we switched to the north end of the stadium to

Callen zero zero through one hundred and five that should.

Have been one hundred and ten minutes, and we went to pks and then finally this team breaks through and wins the shootout to take the one oh lead.

Your instant reaction, I mean euphouri when you see that.

We're seeing the rolled On Brothers take over Seattle Sounders right now. Everything you think of in the sense of where are they gonna play? Can Alex go in goal? Can Michelle said earlier to coach, Can he play in goal? Can he play center?

Bit? Can he play right back? Can he play left back? Alex? I'm sorry, Buddy, I left, so you have you have to play a position now, and Christian doing the same. Right.

These guys are the ones that everyone's looking for. They're looking to these guys to be the lead, and you see it as they step up and hit these incredible penalties and everyone, you know, no one was worried here. Coach wasn't worried, players weren't worried, Stephan Fry wasn't worried, and there was You don't have any worry in your hands when when the Rolldan.

Brothers are on your side, and I think that's incredible.

Now you look at the game, I think the ninety minutes or I guess the one hundred and five minutes that we played were not great. Let's not be it wasn't great. We didn't have many attacks. When we did, it was pretty faltered pretty quickly. The positive is neither did Houston. Stephan Fide didn't really have to make any say it.

Was an ugly game. It was an ugly game.

It was exactly how Houston wanted it to be played, especially away in Lumenfield where they had to come in. But going into that next game, we'll talk about this a little bit more, but we need to.

Find ways to find you know, be goal dangerous.

Yeah, and coach said it as well as well as Stephan Fry and we'll get to that. But I mean it's quick reaction is great for these guys. We won the first game, which is hugely important. Like coach said, in a three game series, you win one, you have two more. You have two more to find a way through the series, and.

You know you're coming back home if you happen to not get it done.

Exactly, which is a place that the Sales Sounders do very well at in the playoff season. So it's a good it's a good result in the sense that we won. There's a lot of things that are gonna want to change coming into Sunday.

I want to go through the penalty kick shootout at length. Let's do that next segment, but let's let's continue to talk about the game itself and for everybody getting in your cars and leaving with smiles on your faces out of lumin Field, as there are obviously lots of smiles, as the Sounders have won in penalty kicks for the first time again here at Luminfield in the MLS era, and they are going to Houston for a game two on Sunday. We'll obviously spend a lot of time talking

Talking about this game as a whole.

It was ugly at times, it was boring, but I think the interesting thing what happened was there was the second half.

I mean, look, you can see the notes.

I had like one note for the first forty five minutes and then like a twelve for the second half. And the interesting thing about this match it can clearly shifts in the sixty second minute, fifty second minute excuse me, when Jeorde Morris comes out due to hamstring tightness. Pedro de Levega also comes out, Rollery Diaz and Georgie Manoonool.

What we talked about at halftime.

That sparked that creativity, that element on the right wing that it seemed like they needed.

Look, Georgie's first touch, I believe, was a scissor and then a down the line and created something right away, and I think that's what coach had wanted to do. It may it may have been a little too long, because coming into a game and running that much is actually very hard to do. It's actually easier to start and play a full game that it is played hard for thirty minutes. But for me, it was the change of the crowd when Raoul Ruy Diaz got subbed on.

I had not seen this.

Crowd that lowed this whole game, and all of a sudden the shift changed. But everyone saw it, not even the players, but the crowd, the team, and it just kind of continued and you could see it in the penalties as well. The whole crowd, as they knew was coming around. We took our headphones off and it was incredibly loud. And I think that is why we have

You really felt that, and I think rolls just him being on the field. I mean when he stepped up to take the first penalty kick, you know, the chance for Raul were just thunderous here in Leuminfield.

So that change happened.

And then we had the first var check in the sixty second minute where they were checking a red card. There was an interesting situation where JP came and there was a giveaway Houston's running down the field with it. JP tackles a guy from behind and it's an obvious yellow card.

He gets the yellow.

But it's what happened afterwards where it seemed like Coco Karskia, the midfielder for Houston, starts getting in it with Albert Rusnak and there's a large group that kind of coalesces around him and Karskia starts throwing his hands, looks like he might hit Albert in the face. He gives him a kick, lots of physical contact. That's in the sixty second minute. Finally, a few minutes later, after all of the dust settles, we go to var for a red card on Kariskia. Turns out, yes, it is a red card.

You know, it's funny you say that because I didn't see it change the dynamic of this game. I think it's going to change the dynamic of the next game. And like you said, Coco is not going to be able to play in the next game.

We talk about that later. But but this this game, I mean, I saw Houston completely the bus correct, but they already kind of work kind of they just decided to put it put everyone back there. They're not going to have any more possession.

When we first started with the ball, they had possession and every once in a while you saw it as well, it's hard to play when you know we have so many players going forward and they just they parked the bus. But what changed? Did we have more chances on goal?

You think?

See and and that's what I want to bring did we create did we have you know, yes, we had more possession. Of course we did, as we had the ball the whole time.

But that's that's what I want to bring up, is the fact that we did have the ball the whole time and whether it was just passing it around and we talked about this at half time. It was just passing it around the final third, trying to find slots, trying to find balls over the top, and it just didn't feel like the quality for that remaining you know, thirty plus at a time that was extra. It didn't feel like the quality was there to get that winner.

All of that time.

Well you talk about the possession, but but we're really shrinking the field there. And Houston did a very good job of this. You're down, you're down a guy. Uh, it's ten v eleven here, but really it's ten b ten. You know, seven fries all the way in the back here. He's had half field and then you have everyone else.

So it's ten b ten half in a half field, not full field.

They're not they're not they're not stepping up and so you're playing with very little space. They did a very good job of having two solid lines of four and then the two kind of roaming around being you know, a forward or a center mid uh in POSEI.

It was just so we saw. It was a really good organized It was.

A very organized and disciplined Houston who knew what they wanted. They slowed the game down. Every time the ball went out, they walked to it and they made they made the sounders actually give.

Them the ball or they weren't going to play.

They took their time on every set piece with they got fouled, they took their time getting back up. They knew they wanted to go to Penns. They're down a man. They know how to defend. They do it very well, and they did it here. Now they did it here because the Sounders didn't really give them.

Much to defend.

In my opinion, we didn't and step and Fries said this after the game. He said, you know, we just were throwing in crosses to no one and that's what it was. We talked about it off air as we were watching, and it's where are we What are we playing into here?

Can we find? Can we put it? Danny Nsovski in there to just stand there? Just have some bodies in there. Raul Ridiez is not one too.

He's an incredible finisher if it falls to his feet, I'm very happy with that. But he's not one to go up with two center backs and win the header and put the ball in the back of the that it's not his style. Can he do it, yes, but is he gonna do it most of the time?

No?

And so I want to see.

Them be able to break a team down, and it's not easy to do, but you have to have runs off the ball, and I think, and I'm gonna kind of foreshadow here the addition of Ovid Vargas coming back and making those runs from a deeper position obviously when we're playing eleven v eleven and then having the full field to do this create space for raw uds underneath.

He creates space for.

Manungo to actually go one on one and have other players in the box because obit's made that run to have Paul Rothrock be able to create because he's he's now going on one v three, he's going on one v one against his attacker.

That was That was perfect.

I mean, that's the element of that I wanted to discuss about how this game changed and how frankly, you know, if the same situation happens with Obed Vargas, because how about that they lose Kioskia for game two, we get oh Bid Vargas back for game two. Yeah, it's a good situation for the Sounders who are up one game. So right now, what we just kind of gave the outline of what happened before penalty kicks weren't able to get it.

There were twelve minutes that was added.

There was a penalty shout that was initially called the PK in the ninety ninth minute.

You know, on the first replay look that we.

All saw on Apple it looked like a penalty because of this certain angle that looked like it came off of a defender's forearm. But when we saw the angle from the behind, the goal very clearly comes off the shoulder. No PK and the one hundred and fifth minute ted uncle said, go to pks. So let's continue this conversation and give a few mentions here before we move forward. And first up, it's that Sounders e FC Soccer is presented by Providence Swedish, the official healthcare partner of Sounders.

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Hey Penalty Kick Shootout edition of Taking Care of Business. The Sounders couldn't take care of business in one hundred and five minutes, but for the first time in the MLS era here at Lumenfield, they took care of business in a penalty kick shootout, winning the shootout five to four hits from Ruy Diaz, Rusnak, Reagan, Christian and Alex rolled On finishing it off for the shootout win for the Sounders.

And I want to kind of go through this and talk about it.

You have Ral stepping up first, the Sounders hit second, it should be mentioned, so they had to follow up after Houston.

So rall hits.

It's a pananka of course, like that he always does. I mean, we could talk about, hey, let's let's let's start there.

I got some please go ahead.

Look, ten minutes before regulation we had the handball, right is ten twenty. I lost track of time on this thing, but he had a chance to take a pen He's waiting for four five minutes holding the ball. Wait, okay, I'm gonna he's playing on my game himself, but also with Steve Clark of like, Okay, where am I gonna put this? I'm gonna put the lower lower corner, upper corner. Am I gonna put this right in the middle like

Through his mind a million times.

And of course Raul ruy Diaz does what he does best and steps up and does something that I don't have the UH co host so to do. It's incredible. This the confidence and experience I get, you would say, but the confidence and the khonz of this guy.

Is just insane. And look it's it's Rauls being unbelievable Pananka again.

So Raul hits UH and then the next guy, Griffin Dorsey hits for Houston.

And then Albert Rusnak steps up. He goes bottom left corner.

You know, every single penalty Albert Rusnak's get this year has by the way, Mitchell, we can kill the music. Rusnak goes bottom left corner as he has done. Every single penalty kick this year from Albert Rusnak has been bottom left corner, and he does it again.

We talked about it on air.

Look these guys are there, Brat and I were talking about it, like I couldn't just look at the goalkeeper and hit my shot.

I have to look at the ball because I don't know it just I have to. I cannot go.

I cannot play soccer blind. I'm not one of those guys. But these guys are doing. And Albert Rusnak does the same thing. He's waiting for Steve Clark to move. He's just waiting and waiting and waiting, and finally he says, all right, final kick my corner.

And puts it right.

It did feel like the hesitation God was a hesitation and if he moves first, he goes the other side. But guess what, I don't know if Steve Clark didn't do his business, because he's done every single time he goes at that corner.

It works. I don't know how he does it, but it works. I hit it there, I miss. If you're a keeper, I did, I actually I did miss. So yeah, that's okay. Nobody remembers. Nobody wants to remember that. Oh well, okay, next Ben, next Ben? All right, So Rusnak hits too too.

Uh.

Then we have Sebastian kowal Shouk step up, a midfielder off the bench for Houston. He hits, and then upsteps Jackson Reagan. Jackson Reagan, what right, right now? I think we're gonna do this. I think the club's official was Yamar for for your man of the match. Tonight's Toyota man of the match, at least for us, is Jackson Reagan. Your local Toylet dealers are proud to present tonight's man

I'm not sure he gave up a shot there the amount of times he's what. He won the ball, he stepped into good spots, he made some good passes, and look the if the team's gonna give it to Yamar, we're gonna give to the other center back because the shutout was so good out So we're not sure Steven Fry actually made.

A stats stats. They had seven shots, none on target, none on target.

No, No, that's that's good defensive play right there, and it's we could give it to the whole back line. We can give it to step and Fry, but I think Jackson Reagan for the reason that you're gonna point out right now.

So Jackson Reagan, a center back, and listen like everybody kind of refers back to Roman Torres, a center back inexplicably stepping up and winning MLS Cup in twenty sixteen. For the sounder is a center back who wins it. Jackson Reagan steps up.

Center backs are players too, Okay they are, but you back them up. You just take there. It would be a penalty to shootout taker.

Jackson Reagan steps up third, He goes top left, scores a great penalty best Steve Clark again, he steps up with the confidence, goes third, Kellen third ahead a Christian I had, Alex, I had everybody else except.

For Rowland Albert.

I mean, the confidence and the take of Jackson Reagan was so special. He earns a matter of the match for not only the defensive effort, but for.

Great take and the confidence to step up third.

We talked about it on air as well when it happened, but ted uncle the refereetail, let's talk about this. He stepped over to Jackson, as you know, as he was about to take it and said, hey, hang on a second, tech. Well, here's the thing is, Stephen Fry is supposed to be behind the line. He's not supposed to be a player on the field. And that's the whole thing. There's not supposed to be another player in the half which is why you see all the guys on the halfway line.

Do I shoot it in? Do I chip it in? Do I pananka? Am? I? Am?

I the rawl Ruidiaz of center backs? But no, he he drills this thing. He drills this thing. Take just a little kiss.

On the crossbar to go right back down, and it was it was gorgeous.

I mean because I picked up the thing, it looked like Ted Uncle. In the moment, I was saying, Jesus, Ted Uncle, you just you just ruined the kid. I mean, he who's gonna hit it? And you just mentally why did you have to step in? But the thing about Fry that makes absolute sense. But what a credit to Jackson Reagan for stepping up and hitting it and with that take makes it a three to three shootout at that point.

At that point we have who is it?

It's it's Sviatchenko, right, Eric Sviatchenko, a defender for Houston, steps up wide left and suddenly the Sounders have a chance to take the lead here in the fourth round of penalty kicks. And that is where we get to with tonight's Emerald Queen Casino Play of the Match. Christian rolled On stepped up and what a hit from Christian rolled On.

Now it's gonna be Christian rolled On.

Sounders have experience and quality so far stepping up hold On doesn't take a moment.

To take a breath.

He's just gonna step back stands on top of the eighteen. Here he comes strikes in the uppercorder. Plaud didn't even move really a.

Penalty dig that one out, But you got into the top corner.

The guy who's been around, the workhorse, the kind of the captain on that the center of the park, Christian Roldan, He's the guy that you want to stepping up after a big save like that last one.

I mean that take.

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I mean, Brad Evan said it best. If he misses that it's going in the top of the stands. He drilled that thing. I mean, I'm surprised it didn't go through the net. I haven't seen Christian hit a ball that hard in a very long time, if ever, and he's not one to, you know, go out and just shoot. He's more of a placement kind of guy. And oh my, did he place that thing in the top corner and the fact that it didn't go through is pretty incredible.

He smashed that thing.

Unbelievable take from Christian rolled on. After he hits we have Daniel Starez. He stepped up and hit it for Houston. That made it four to four, one kick left in the five rounds. Alex Roldan stepped up and just like Christian hit it top right. Alex Schrouldan goes same place, not as fire as fire on it, but still a

Nothing in the roll ends. We trust.

I mean, you put him in big moments and they're gonna make it happen. And obviously you have the experience of Stepan Fright now, I understand that the guy missed right, the.

Center back missed Sachenko.

Yeah, yeah, I get it, But for me, that's a save for goalkeeper in any kind of penalty shootout.

They you know, did their research. He went the right way.

It's just one of those that he just put too far because guess what Step and five was gonna save it if he if he didn't, he was there.

I'm saying he was there. It was I mean, you know it looked it looked like it too. Frieda guessed the right direction. And at the end of the day, I mean, the Sounders go through. And we said it before and I'll say it again. First time in the MLS era they've won a penalty kick shootout here at Loomenfield.

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Welcome back to Womanfield, where the seagulls are enjoying the scraps of those who are enjoying this game. A Sounders penalty kick shootout win here has sent them to game two, up one to zero here in this best of three opening round against the Houston Dynamo. Sounders of the four seed. Houston's the five seed winner too, in all likelihood face LAFC in the Western Conference Semifinal, which will be a one game likely down in Los Angeles. Vancouver, of course,

What we didn't mention is that Jordan Morris had to come out in the game as well, and it looked like a muscle injury. Hamstring tightness, hamstring tightness, And so for us, that's that's uh, you know. Obviously rel Ruediez came on and was a big spark for us, but Jordan's been the guy.

He's been the goal scorer. He's the league goal scorer of this whole season.

He's the one that stretches the back line because Roald has its quickness, it has his brains, but he's not one to go and stretch anymore. He's he's up there in his ages and he's not he's looking for the ball at his feet rather than behind. So how are they going to adapt to that as well? Obviously they'll be talked about it. Ovid Vargas is going to be that guy who kind of makes the the gaps open up because of his ability to make good runs off the ball. Can he find a way to do kind

So it seems like a lot of that dynamic will be a question of who is going to.

Be starting at striker for the Sounders. Well, it's it's it's a question of how do they want to play. Do they want to play together or do they want to play individually. If they want to play individually, they're gonna have a lot of guys in the same area. But if you can be smart enough, and I think Pedro del Vega is very smart, Albert Rudak very smart, rob Re Diaz is very smart. If one comes in, the other has to go right. If one leaves, the

That I mean, just like tonight was a chess match, There'll be a chess match coming up on Sunday in Houston, three o'clock pregame, three thirty kickoff. We'll all be down there in Houston, Texas Shall Energy Stadium. Hope to see a bunch of Sounder fans down there as well in Houston this coming Sunday. You also listen right here Sports Radio at nine fifty KJR.

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Want to thank everybody tonight for the broadcast. Steve Zachalani, Danny Jackson, Brad Evans, and I heard yourself jumping in there to pks Kellan Rowe all right for the call today of Sounders and Dynamo.

We got Ryan and Keeleys. I was sweating watching that. Man. It was just flashbacks. Okay, al right, come on guys.

Oh finally they got one done and it he came here tonight. Ryan and Keey are our producers. We have Mitchell back the studio, Teary Ryne here on site. Uh and thanks to all of you, of course for listening to this long, long broadcast Long Game Sounders Dynamo. My name is Jackson Felts. We thank you all for listening once again. Here game one of the best of the three Sounders take it first penalty kick shootout win here at Luminfield five to four.

Alex s rouldon the.

Winner in the fifth round and the Sounders are headed to Houston up one nothing in this series. We'll talk to you on Sunday down from Texas. Have a good rest of your week, everybody. Sounders weekly on the ninety three three threatening ninety three point three kjr FM on Wednesday at seven pm, so make sure you tune in for that. But we'll talk to you here on the AM on Sunday for Sounders and Dynamo.

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