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It's a final here from a rainy lumin field and the weather is as gloomy as is the result. It's a one to one final between your Sounders and the Portland Timbers. Timbers got a goal in the second half to equalize at one to one. Obed Vargas was sent off a second yellow card for dissent and no goals scored after that, and it's a one to one final due to other results. And I know the last time you heard us here on the air, Danny Jackson was speaking and not all games were finished yet. All games
are finished now, and here's what happened. There was an absolute wild game between the LA Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo as things stood when a few minutes before Danny signed off the air, it was a one nothing Houston lead. Then the Galaxy scored in the ninety sixth minute a Gabrielle Peck penalty that made up one to one. That meant the LA Galaxy worthy one seed and Houston dropped back, and it was going to be Sounders Minnesota in the four to five game in the first round of the playoffs.
Well then in the one hundred and eleventh minute, Daniel Steez scored for Houston. That means Houston wins two to one. The fallout from that is quite large, and it's quite affecting your Sounders because the first thing is Houston jumps back to being the five seed. Seattle will officially be facing the Houston Dynamo in the first round of the MLS Cup playoffs that will begin this next week. That
will be the Sounders first round opponent, Houston Dynamo. The other part of the fallout is that the Galaxy, by losing that match, fall out of the one seed. LAFC take the one one seat Galaxy take the two seed RSL have the three seat Sounders have the fourth seed. You do the math and you do the kind of the matchups. If the Sounders were to advance past Houston, we're facing LAFC, not the La Galaxy in that second round of the playoffs. Now we're getting ahead of ourselves.
We're talking second round opponents. But that is the road. The Sounders have to get to a West final Houston then likely LAFC. As for this game, it's one one. A tie means that Portland gets Cascadia Cup. So all of these things said Brad Evans Jackson feltz here for the postgame show, Brad, there's not a lot of happy people right now, a lot a lot of happy Sounder fans.
The mood is what the rain is coming down and after that, where you have a man sent off and you weren't able to get your first win over Portland at home since twenty seventeen, mood is not too high right now, my friend.
Yeah, I mean it's not high. And you want to always send your fans home happy, especially on the final day of your season. You got decision day here at home. You're playing against your biggest rival and the only time that you'd play them here this year in twenty twenty four, and you go up one nothing. Fans are happy, everything's going well, and all it takes is one moment and one little switch off and then all of a sudden things kind of unravel, and yeah, I think the fans
will be sent home disappointed. And you know the problem is it was a great crowd tonight, and you want fans to come back for the playoffs, and you want to give them something that reminded them of once was with the Sounders and really filling up this bottom bowl. And then you leave them to go home one to one and you're winning a game and then you let them go home. So a little bit of a sour taste.
But you know, playoffs are a different piast, Like Albert said in the postgame, you know, now we focus on the playoffs and anybody can do anything in the playoffs. And to your point, yeah, we play Houston. You know, we've had a very good historical result against Houston here at home, as well as Minnesota. But I think Minnesota was in a better run of form this one, right, I think fifteen or sixteen points from the last eighteen they've taken to get into the position that they are now.
Houston with a couple wins, couple losses. Yes, tonight was the last minute winner for them from a former Sounder, Daniel Starez, and so I'm not sure it's the same Houston that we saw in the beginning part of this year. And we did just have a great result against them here at home. A couple of weeks ago, so they're not a team for us to fear. And either way
you'd have to play the Galaxy or LAFC. And both of those teams at home have been very, very good, and yes, one of them has had your number for years past. And maybe this is the year that the Sounders right the ship finally, or the final moment, not just the year, but the final moment to right the ship.
It's been since twenty nineteen that I feel like we've gotten a decent result against them, and that was away from home as well, and so it's a good time for the Sounders to First you got to make it through Houston, then you focus on what would be LAFC.
Well, I mean, as you said again, the record against Houston has been very, very good. And this is a three game series, so two of them are at home the first and if necessary, the third. Second one would be down there in Houston where listen. I mean, it's hotter temperature, but it's nothing like you'd face in August or earlier. And you're right. Three weeks ago the Sounders
beat Houston, won nothing right here at LUMAN. That was also without Hector Herrera, a good midfielder for the Houston Dynamo. So as we you know, we're not gonna do too much prep on that yet. We'll have a whole pregame shorted talk Sounders Dynamo. But you know, I think we should spend a little more time talking about this game, the one to one result Sounders timbers. A few things to note here. Tonight's Toyota Man of the match with that goal or actually know what I'm gonna go with
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Welcome back to Lumenfield where the rain is coming down. The Parland fans are up in the northeast corner of the stadium with smiles on their faces. Cascadia Cup heading down to Portland again as they are able to get a one to one draw against the Sounders tonight. Well Delta Airlines is probut to donate one soccer ball for every mile ran by Sounders FC players this season through Ray Foundation's one Mile, One Ball program. It's now time
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The Play of the match is presented by Emerald Queen Casino, the betting capital of the Northwest, Jackson Feltz, brad Evans here on the postgame show and Brell to spend some more time talking about this game. A lot of booze, lot of chance against the referee. Interesting to see that it didn't feel like advantage was ever played where the Sounders were in transition and big moments where they could have scored. Obviously, there's the second yellow for obed for descent.
Would love to know why that raced to a yellow card and no other descent raised to a yellow card. Maybe that'll be in the poolor what did you make overall of the officiating that seemed to have an impact on the Sounders in this game.
Yeah, I don't mind as a player bad officiating. I understand more than likely it's gonna happen. Right. You're taught as a player to understand that the referee is going to make bad decisions. And when I'm coaching my own high school girls or boys, I tell them, let us handle the referees as best we can. But when you're playing in a setting like this, and I think that there were a couple of fouls early on that he could have just brought out the yellow card to take
the temperature down in the game. He just managed it. He mismanaged the game overall, and that's his job. And I said it on air, I think it was a
bit big of an occasion for him. And just like when you're playing in a game and the attacker is yes, he might be off sides, and the linesman knows, he always waits until the play's over with if the attacker's in an advantage position, to just make sure that before he lifts his flag the play's over with, because if he misses something like a handball or action and it actually is on side for the player and you get a goal, you don't want to be the one responsible
for the for the var to call it back and the referee on four or five occasions, and it was just unfortunately just for the Sounders and night it didn't happen for the Timbers at all in terms of the advantageous play. It happened four or five times for the Sounders, and that becomes really frustrating. As a player. You're asking yourself, like, what the hell is going on here? What am I missing that you continuously are missing? And you know that
Schmeetz is sitting on the sideline. All those guys are chirping in the fourth official. Then the fourth official gets in the center and he just lost the plot. And then for Otle bit Vargas, yes it's descent, I'm not even sure it's descent in how he reacts. You saw the replay a number of times. He's just upset.
That's normal.
He's twenty yards away from the referee. And then you see Rodriguez do it late in the second half, the same exact thing, even more hand gestures and no call right. And so that's the most frustrating thing is the inconsistency. So he'll have to ask a lot of questions. And one thing that Brian and Neville could agree on tonight was that the refereeing was poor and both of them
were upset. You saw Nevill get a yellow card as well, and you know the Sounders were crowding the referee, and actually Neville goes over there and pulls away the Sounders players like it's not worth it. Right, this guy doesn't know what he's doing. I know that that's what he's saying. This guy has no idea what he's doing here. You're just gonna get a yellow card. Don't be stupid, get away from the ref You rarely see an opposing coach going grab players from another team and say, hey, just
leave the referees alone. So disappointing from that respect. But the Sounders had every opportunity to go up two, three, four nothing, and Albert said it in postgame. They kept continuing to press because they had nothing to lose, right, And I think Schetz will say that he may have wanted to bring on Raoul and and Read and Manongu, probably all at the same time with about fifteen minutes left in that game, and I think that may have put the Timbers under a little bit more pressure. Hindsight's
twenty twenty. But looking back at that one, that's learning learning one for him too.
Ismear Pechmik is, Yeah, the referees name. We should absolutely mention that, just for clerical purposes. But I was gonna use that phrase. I think he used it, and you nailed it. He lost the plot, you very much, And I think that's probably exactly what fil Nev was saying very clearly in our opinions too. He had no idea
what he was doing out there. It's a very tough game for the officiating and the fact that it influenced this game so heavily where the Sounders couldn't get off in transition, no advantages played and then we see Obed sent off. That is something that Jonathan Rodriguez doesn't even get a card for. Ridiculous, questionable decisions and you just hate when game win big, big games like this or decided not that it was decided by officiating, but so
heavily influenced by officiating. I think any Portland Timbers fan leaving the building tonight would admit way too much of a hand from the referee. As meir pec MC tonight not good and it affects this game and the Sounders end up in this situation. I was about to say he's end up losing. It is one of those draws, as Ryan here said, that feels like a loss. It's one to one, but the Ascadia Cup goes to Portland. We end up as the four seed. We're facing Houston
in the first round of the playoffs. They're the five seed and also LAFC they are the one seed. So as we've said, if the Sounders were to get by the Dynamo it'll be LAFC again. LAFC, who of course knocked us out of the playoffs last year they ended the league's Cup run this year. They ended the Open Cup run for the Sounders this year down at Starfire. So could we be on a collision course for number
four and thirteen months? We will soon find out. We will have a lot of looking ahead to Sounders Houston and Sounders Weekly coming up on ninety three point three kg FM this coming Wednesday. I'll tell you that this season, when the Sounders win, you'll win a free mik Chicken the next day exclusively in the McDonald's app with any minimum two dollars purchase down on the McDonald's app today
and check out the deals waiting for you. But for the Sounders, we will be back here at home match one playoff Round one three game series US versus the Houston Dynamo. First game is here at loom In Field. Tickets for this match we'll go on sale coming up on October twenty first, that's just in a couple of days there. On Monday, October twenty first, you can grab your tickets at soundersfc dot com backslash tickets. I want to thank everybody with tonight's broadcast. Great call tonight from
Danny Jackson and Brad Evans here. Thanks to Michelle Ludka for her great work on the sideline as well as Diego Audio earlier on in pregame. I want to think Ryan Karnes and Kelley Dunning our producers here on site, Mitchell Bly back in the studio, Terry Ryan, our technical director. My name is Jackson Feltz. We thank you all so
much for listening here from a rainy lumin Field. You may not have a smile now, Hopefully we'll all be smiling in a week or so when the Sounders get their first win over Houston in the first round, but we will preview that extensively on the weekly show coming up next week. Have a good rest of your weekend, everybody. Once again here from Lumenfield. The final score Sounders one Timbers one.
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