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Postmat Show starts now. You know, soccer is a funny game if you give you the absolute highest of highs where you're leading one nothing and you watch a breakaway from you know, a read Baker Whiting who's coming back from injury, makes a great play leading to nothing, you know, against the number one team in the Western Conference, and you're just jumping for joy, and seconds later the goals taken off and about thirty seconds later the other team equalizes
and makes it one to one. That's the sport we love, ladies and gentlemen, and that is what happened tonight here at Loomenfield. I am still in a state of shock. Kelen ro Lamar Nagel Jackson Feltz here and as we bring you this postmatch show here on KJR, that is about as much of a draw that feels like a loss as I have ever seen where it really felt like it was either gonna end one nothing or two nothing. And just just like RSL did over the weekend in Dallas. They do the same
thing to us. They find an equalizer at the death and set of three points for the Sounders. It's one point for the Sounders. And here we are, Callen, just what's going through your well? I'm gonna tell you those things we talked about it in the pregame. This team has something about him where they had just have that little bit of that lucky bounce, that lucky hit that it comes down to the last second, and they've had I think we looked it up. Is now nine goals and forty nine of their
forty one goals has been after the eighty fifth minute. So these guys know this going in. When that time comes, when it comes to eightieth minute, the eighty fifth minute, the ninetieth minute, you gotta lock things down. It's gotta be that. You know that that panic button of Hey, my guys on the wrong side of me, I gotta it's two yards. I gotta get there. You know, this is the little things that I think towards the end didn't go the way that we wanted. And that for
me, that is a mental thing, not a physical thing. Yeah, I gotta agree that the mental thing. I mean, it's tough for you know, to take pressure at the end of a game, which you know that's going to happen regardless, But how long is that period? Yeah? Is it seven minutes? Is it eight minutes or is it two minutes?
You know, if it's a very long time against a team that has confidence in the last you know, twenty minutes of a game, that's putting yourself in a dangerous situation and get I think it was just a signal for them to start putting more and more pressure as we sat back and so and it just became too early. We sat back a little bit. You're gonna have
to sit back a little bit and take some pressure. That's that's again, it's inevitable, especially with the team that will will pump numbers because they are down away from cold or away from home. But you can shorten that time. I mean, we talked about it. The corner there and the gives the ninety second ninety third minute. Yeah, we played a short corner to try and block out a game that had five or six minutes left, I mean, and that came after I believe there was a there was a delay.
I think Stephen Fry got run into at the start of the added time, and so we instantly knew right when we hit the nine minutes that was added, that it was going to be more than nine minutes. This game was going one hundred and one hundred and two, and so you know it's gonna be another ten minutes. So you know, if you get you know, it gives another ten minutes. Why go to the corner? Why why that early? Try to take time off the clock with the team exactly what
you guys are saying that they still have Chicho Rung on the fields. Field, they still have you know, Carlos Andres Komas, who scores the equalizer on the field. They have guys who have scored a ton of goals this year and late goals this year. So it just felt a little too early in that regard. And I wonder what that locker room is feeling like right now. Yeah, I mean, I'm of two minds because I said the same thing when I when I saw the corner that I was thinking, you
know, has Salt Lake created that many chances this game? They hadn't really at the time. Yeah, so maybe, okay, you know, we we took off our top three. We're sitting back a little bit more. That's the kind of ethos of the game. But right now those guys are are definitely feeling, you know, we we just got robbed. Yeah, it's got to be pretty devastating after Like I said, I thought this was
gonna be a pretty pivotal game in that we're continue with the momentum. You beat you know, hopefully get a good result, a win at home against you know, the top team in the West, and you move on from here. But to give up that goal right at the end has to you know, deflate your tires. This one's gonna hurt and the heart what the part that hurts the most is gonna be the fact that they can't play again for another week and a half. Yeah, that's the part that hurts the
most. Now, it could be a positive. They can go in, they can get the film done, they can get some training in. Another positive is the fact that you know, we have to hurt learn a hard lesson here. I think everyone on that field, especially towards the end of that game, needs to learn that hard lesson. But we learned it and still got a point out of it. It's in the end of the season
that point's gonna matter. Wouldn't be three great of course, absolutely, but at the end of the season, that point's gonna matter, Absolutely it will. And I think one of the things, sorry, Lamar, I was just gonna say, and it's against Like I was just saying that the top team in the West. So you know, at the end of the day, when you are just looking at the points where you got them, Yep,
we got a point against them. And now RSLO is unbeaten in twelve and this kind of good ViBe's run just keeps going for them, is they continue to find magic and find these results and for the Sounders. Meanwhile, we'll take a break and we'll talk about the positives. But the last note on here is the fact that the last two home games in MLS play week and a half ago, Vancouver Wycaps get the ninety fifth minute equalizer around a penalty. Now, that was a different situation. The rest screwed us in
that regard, and that should have been a win. But you know, because Jordan should have had the penalty earlier, about ten minutes before Vancouver had
their penalty. But this was this was different, and this was you know, a a RSL team that pushed and got their equalizer the hard way, and you know, it's just it's frustrating because both of these last two games have been giving up an equalizer, one via penalty, one via you know, run a play in the ninety fifth and ninety ninth minutes respectively, and your Sounders, unfortunately, what looked like a win is a one to one draw with salt Lake. Tonight here at lumen Field, we will talk about
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Well, I think it was an ambitious try. He could have caught the goalie off guard there for a bit. Everyone myself included thought he was gonna cross that ball. It had some good distance on it. But for me that the great thing is that he's had what to assists last game, a goal of this game, he's involved in most of the play going forward.
This is the type of guy you want. This is the Albert Rusnak you want from from old coming into the Sounders team and plays the number ten and lamar As we talk about kind of this offense getting going, it's you know,
one goal tonight and two against Saint Louis. You know, we're hoping the offense can continue to make strides and break through and score goals, you know, but we just kind of we need that next gear and Albert can hopefully continue to unlock that on the offensive end with you know, with Ruy Diaz, who you know, saw it little. He came out, you know, midway through the second half and we just you know, still looking for more on the offensive end. I think, yeah, and he had
a couple of moments. He had a nice layoff, he had the shot from half that cock keeper off guard. So he's still dangerous. But I think he's the guy that everybody's focusing on. So it makes it hard obviously for him to have a huge effect when everybody knows as soon as he gets the ball, okay, we need to close him down. So when Rouznik Roznak starts to score goals and get more assists, and Christian he's the one that made the run that led to the foul to get that free kick.
When those guys start to get involved, it'll release pressure from Rudiaz. Rudiez was my guy at the beginning to be the man of the match to draw
that pressure for other people. But when everybody else plays well, it draws the pressure away from him so that he can actually have some opportunities to another positive that we could talk about on the defensive end, because you know you mentioned the last segment, how you know, going into added time that added nine minutes, I think we all felt like, well, okay, RSL
really hasn't done much of anything today. They had a few chances just off of giveaways in the first few minutes, but after that they were kind of just you know, shut down defensively. Callen, this was a great game for Seattle. It was. It wasn't n till unfortunately it wasn't, but it was I was. I'm choosing to forget the last time. It was one of those games that they needed the second wave. That's what it was. And so I thought the defense did grace. Then Fry obviously came up
with some huge saves, even the goal he saved the first attempt. Uh. It's one of those that they needed the second wave and and unfortunately it didn't come. So I'm looking at, you know, that midfield wave to kind of drop back that little bit more. Know that the understand the game, understand the the need for that last two you know, two meter step. Uh and and for them, I think this again one of those hard lessons. Lamarl Revagant for positives read. Baker Whiting comes onto the field in
the seventy fourth minute for Christian a little bit surprising. Christian came out he has played a lot in the last week, both at Saint Louis and then the Open Cup a week ago. But Baker Whiting comes on play he's left wing, immediately earns a yellow card. I thought he looked pretty good in this time. Yeah, absolutely, immediately it came on, intercepted a pass, took it down. Yeah, I got the yellow card. Ended up with what could have been, you know, a great assist was getting the
crowd pumped up afterwards. So even though that doesn't count, that still counts for him when it comes to like the coaches and what he's done, right, he had no, he had nothing to do with the foul or anything like that. It's what he did afterwards. So good to see some more attacking from somebody coming off the bench. So happy to see him get a little bit of success. And you take that same play and you've got Danny
Musovski all of a sudden finding the back of the net. Yeah, and it's as a forward, you know, La Marley, when you even if you just see it and he calls off side, calls a foul, whatever, you see that ball on the back of the net, your head's thinking, I still got it. You know that the forwards need this confidence especially, and it's one of the hardest things to do is score a goal. And now he's seen it, he can do it again. He has that
a little bit of confidence. And so if you have two XRSL players scoring against their former club, that's a pretty incredible feat to have and it gives them that little boost hopefully going into the next time they get to play. God, just take me back to the ninety seventh minute. Take me back to that, to that feeling where it was to nothing and everything was rosy and golden and not this final of one to one as it is well.
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ends one to one here tonight. Let's take a look ahead at what's next for your Sounders. It's gonna be a little bit a week and a half from a team who's been playing every you know, three four days for the last month. That is kind of coming to an end here because they get a week and a half off. Next game is gonna be coming up against
Sporting Kansas City on Saturday, June eighth. We're gonna have a Providence, Swedish prematch show of five o'clock kickoff at five thirty right here Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. You also watch the match via the MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app and Callen Lamar. I imagine this is a situation where the players wish that you didn't have to wait a week and a half for a game, and they probably wish they could go back out there and
then play again on Saturday to try to right this wrong. Yeah, I think so. I mean, like I was talking about before, I was I was just personally I was hoping this was gonna be the continuation momentum. They did get a point out of it. You got to take the positives whatever you can, You take the lessons from you know, the bad stuff, and you move on. They'll get a chance to get guys healthy and think about this and watch a ton of video in between now and the next
match. And just get ready for that one. This is one of those games that is going to keep you up at night, you know, and unfortunately, this is not how you want to end that long stretch of games. And you're need to have some time off now, and it's going to be in your head, but it's you need to take the time. These guys need to take that time off. You're going about halfway through the season now, just about, and you've got tired legs, You've got guys that
are coming back from injury. Hopefully you've got too many injuries early on the season. Let's take care of our bodies. Let's make sure we're fully fit, fully ready to go, and then you can put a best team forward and start this second half of the season with quality. Because this is sixteen games now in so we are, you know, nearly at the halfway point of seventeen of this thirty four game season. And you look at, you know, a situation like Nathan, You look at a situation like John Bell.
Two center backs there who you know, getting even one of those back will be have great defensive depth where you can kind of build a back five that you you weren't you know, really too much able to build tonight theoretically. You know, Brian Schmitzer loves to do that going all the way back, you know, many many years. He loves to kind of build that late game back five with I remember, you know, Chad Marshall, Kim Khi, Roman Torres right like like you know, so having one of those
guys in for today's game could have changed a lot of things. And then obviously, you know, as we wrap, you know, we look ahead to you know, the health of this team kind of coming back Lamar and Callen. The last place is petterdale Vega because as we wait to see him get healthy and get back, that changes absolutely everything about what you'll do on the offensive end. I think it was everyone's gonna think it's a bold move to lead him off the bench, but I think it was a smart one
from coach. Look, you either want the guy for two three games and hope, you know, hope he doesn't hurt himself again, or you get him for the rest of the season when he's healthy, fully fit and ready to go and fully one hundred percent. You know it's I know you want to see him and I do too, don't get me wrong, but you want him for a game or do you want him for the rest of the season. And I think that was a smart decision. Yeah, I completely
agree. I was doing a Q and A before the game and that was one of the questions was is he ready to go? What does he look like in training? And really it was like, Okay, let's take a step back. We're looking at it from a long term perspective, Coach GM, They're looking at it from what does this look like for the next few years. I know everybody's excited to see him, like Kellen you were saying, but like, let's be realistic about the situation. Let's manage things.
We'll say he's looking good in training, like he's he's looking good. He's just you know, needs to get fully healthy and hopefully he is by June eighth, when the Sounders play their next game at Sporting Kansas City once again, five pm. Providence pre Providence Swedish pre match show five point thirty kickoff right here on ninety three point three KJRFM One Thing Everybody with the broadcast today. Great call today from Danny Jackson and Steve Zachawani. Mitchell Bly back in
the studio, a Kiwi Dunning our producers here on site. Terry Ryan, our engineer, A big thank you to this two five three crew is awesome. Kellen Row first MLS game, congratulations, many thank you and Lamar Nago. We thank these guys. Wonderful to have them on. If you missed any of our post game show here tonight, make sure you check out the podcast Sounders Weekly and our postgame shows wherever you get your podcast. Jackson thoughts
here saying thank you all for listening here tonight. Wish it could have been a full three points, Sadly it is not. It's a final one to one between the Sounders and Salt Lake. We'll talk to you in a week and a half against Sporting Kansas City and Fox Sports Radio is coming up next. You've been listening to the Sounders FC postmad show. Sounders FC Sucker is
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