Welcome to the Sounders FC postmatch show. Sounders FC Sucker is brought to you by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Seattle Sounders FC. The Sounders FC postmatch Show starts now. Well, it's a final from Woman Field. The points are shared here between your Seattle Sounders and FC Dallas. One one is
the final. Both goals scored in the first half of thirty second minute owned goal by Dallas created by Leo Chew and then a forty second minute goal for Dallas a header it gets past Stephen Fry and nothing in the second half. Despite the fact that the Sounders dominated once again in possession and in a lot of areas. It is a final of the one to one. Jackson, Felts and Brad Evans here for the postmatch show. We'll be here for the
next twenty five thirty minutes or so to break this thing down. And Brad, I mean, really, the number one word going through my brain is frustrating. I'm just immensely frustrated that for a match that the Sounders dominated throughout so much, we can't get three points. Well, you do this to yourself, right, You go in and you get a lead in the first half and you think that things are peachie clean, and then all of a
sudden, a little disorganized in the back and Dallas punishes you. And then all of a sudden you're playing against basically what feels like twenty five men in the back in that second half, And we always knew that the Sounders were going to come out and push and try to get that second and third goal. So it's not that the Sounders played bad, and this is not going to be a postgame show of what they ultimately did wrong where they looked bad
tonight. They played well for ninety plus minutes. It's just a matter of fact of now you come into a team that doesn't have its normal starters, and so they're not going to be in the second half pushing to get that result. Yes, in the first half, I think Dallas opened up and the Sounders came out and we're able to capitalize on their mistakes. And then the second half, you always knew that they were just going to sit back and they were going to be just try to get out of here with a
point. At the end of the day. It's good for them if you're going to play for a point forty five minutes, you're always going to do it in the second forty five and so yes, frustrating for the Sounders, not able to get it tonight, frustrating for the fans. Credit to them for sticking it out, because the Sounders certainly looked like they were going to
get a second in that second half, because you absolutely are right. And the fact that the Sounders played well, I mean they dolinated in possession. The passing was ninety percent and a lot of that passing happened in the final third and in and around that and just trying to find the right angle.
But at the end of the day, Brad, I mean, for as well as they played, I think, you know, right up at the edge of the box, it comes back to finishing right and at the end of the day, not being able to finish, and you know, some of it is a little bit unlucky where you know, Jordan Morris's header in the seventy eighth minute is saved and OVD has a shot from distance that's you know, just a foot and a half, you know, right off off the top Vat in the upper right. I mean, so these little things
here and there, but at the end of the day. It is missing that finishing ball. Yeah. You know, soccer is a game of counterattacks and its mistakes capitalizing mistakes from other teams, and Dallas didn't really make that many mistakes in the second half. They really played a good low block and their goal was to get out of here with a point. And any team that is going to go away from home they've won one game in nine is going to say, hey, we have forty five minutes to lock it down.
Let's get some confidence and move forward and get a point. And so we do this in training all the times. As attacking team, you're always gonna play numbers up against a defensive group that's just gonna sit back and now can you break them down? And sometimes when you look at it, it's purely a numbers game and it has to take something special, like that shot from distance. If that's a foot lower, it goes in the back of
the net. You know, the keeper comes up big a couple times for them, and just some of those crosses from Nico just an inch or two off. And it was just that kind of night for the Sounders in the second half, just not able to execute and really get it done. Yeah. Absolutely, so I mean, you'll get the stats here sixteen to three
shots, but I'll focus on this part. Both teams had two shots on target, a lot of shots for the Sounders, but only a couple of them are actually on frame, one of those being Jordan Morris's header that was saved in the seventy eight That might have been the Sounders best chance of the second half, where then a follow up shot from Nico is blocked. I mean, I just wrote on my sheet, damn because it really felt like
that that might have been it. Uh. The thing that I'm looking at two is fourteen to one on corners Bretton, and that's this is a team that, you know, you look at the Vancouver game, excellent on set pieces and at the start of the year excellent on set pieces. It just kind of feels like, I don't know if the service wasn't there. I don't know if it was just kind of an unlucky thing here and there. But for fourteen to one on corners, that's one thing that I'm looking at
saying, you know, that is something that the Sounders. If you're going to dominate that much on set pieces, you need you need to score one of those yeah, Well, the service has to be consistent, yeah, and the runs have to be consistent as well. So is it a matter of the sounders are consistently going to try and isolate Jackson and get him free and he's going to win the knock Like in Vancouver, he's got to win the knockdowns and get up. And then late in the second half he did.
He got called for a foul, but that's the one that they'd been looking for all day long. And so I don't see a rhyme or reason behind the set pieces specifically and especially tonight on corner kicks, and it just leaves me wondering. When you have that many corner kicks, you have to get something out of it fourteen and to get nothing out of it is something that the guys will have to go in and look at and say, how do we get better at this? Is it a matter of who's going to
take the corner kick? Do we need new set because it's a set play at the end of the day, right, it's a set play. So just like basketball, just like football, these are the only time in soccer where you really get to run plays. And I remember always working in two so I was the guy that I knew I wasn't gonna win the header. But I was always trying to isolate Chad Marshall the best I could, so I wouldn't even look at the soccer ball when it was being taken. I
was looking at my defender, knowing he was here. I was looking at Chad Marshall's defender. Wherever he ran, I would just step in front of the defender and make sure that he was alone. And I don't see that right now from this team really trying to isolate Yamar and Jackson really get them free so that at least two of them are challenging for the ball, one on the corner of the six and one at the back post. And that's
what I think is missing right now. And I don't know if it's a matter of they just don't know what they're supposed to do, or they're just laying the ball up hoping that Jackson's tall and he can hit the ball. Well. Listen, this is the last MLS game for the next month or so. Next MLS game is going to be Atlanta here coming up in the deep end of August. It's League's Cup until then, So in terms of MLS Action. Sounders have some time to figure out set pieces. But listen,
I agree with you wholeheartedly. See fourteen corners and getting nothing out of it. That's a big issue. So Sounders ll have time to figure that out. Well. I'll tell you that we'll go through a lot here on this post match show. We'll get to the Emerald quinc Casino play the match. We'll have to figure out we want to give to our Toyota Man of the Match. I'll tell you that sound Transit will like to remind everyone to obey all signs and signals went around train tracks. Light rail trains are quiet
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Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM. Welcome back to the postmatch show here from Emerald Queen Casino pitch at Loomin Field Jackson Felton Brad Evans here on the post match talking about a one one game between Sounders FC and FC Dallas. Well Tonight's Toyota Man of the Match is Christian rolled On. Your local Toyota dealers are proud to present tonight's Man of the match and it's time for
our Emerald Queen Casino Play of the Match. Christian rolled On had a big part in the own goal scored by Dallas Tools Leal Cheoklus in space while some time gets Tools the bouts left hand sight goes on the sick job buck. How is the goal? It's an old goal. Just what the Sounds needed. They was Christian hold on again. It was crashing the box from a Leo Treu cross and we'll get a confirmation. But selling from my fantage point, it looked like it was looked in the goal by an FC Dallas defender,
but the Sounders won't care. It's sound has one Dallas nil. The Play of the Match is presented by Emerald Queen Casino, the betting capital of the Northwest and the entertainment capital of the Northwest, and Brad being able to get Christian hold On starting out there, combining with his brother Alex from the right backspot. That did seem to add a lot to the attack and then balance offensively to this team. Yeah, exactly. I think it takes away
pressure from our left hand side, and his absence obviously showed that. And it's the combination of him and Alex together, right, It's it's not just one or the other. It's when they played together they have this. I mean they've grown up together obviously, so they have an unspoken and bond about
what the other person is trying to do. They're on the same page, and it allows Leo Chi to not be you know, the LAFC game was was a big We watched that game from basically what felt like on the field, but Leo Chu was so heavily dependent on that game at LAFC that he just tired after fifty sixty minutes and we got nothing from from Cody Baker.
And that's not to say to rag on Cody. It's just a product of him trying to get his feet and he doesn't have that attacking prowess yet, so to have that balanced attack is huge, and he creates that goal from a hard hard run. He doesn't know if he's going to get to the ball, but that's not the point with Christian. He knows that if he does great, and if he doesn't, he's gonna put the defender on his back heels and make him face his own goal and make a mistake. And
that time he did. And credit to Leo Chu because I don't know how you take him out of the starting lineup right now after these last you know, seven eight games that he's been producing. And that's another that's credit to Leo because we've sat here on broadcast saying when he's he gonna start, when
he is he gonna kick into high gear? And tonight was that night once again that he provides you know that like unspoken uh kind of I don't even know how to how to explain it, but yeah, it's like it's it's something that he provides that you can't really explain because sometimes you think he gets caught in pressure and then all of a sudden he makes something out of nothing. Yeah, and there's not many players that can do that. So credit to him for keeping his head down. And if it wasn't for him,
we might leave this game one nothing. Yeah, absolutely I mean, and it's it's that burst that we saw Jordan have when Jordan was a youngster. Here. It's just it's that added dimension is speed to stretched teams and do what he did in creating that goal there that ends up as an own goal in the back of the nets. Uh. In terms of you mentioned,
you know, taking Leo Chi out of the starting lamp. In terms of trying to find the best starting lineup for the Sounders right now, it's an interesting topic as we look ahead to what's coming up next for the Sounders. I'll tell everybody that Sounders FC Soccer is presented by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Sounders FC. Let's talk about what's coming up next for the Sounders, not only the next MLS action, but exactly the big tournament that's going
to be starting a week from tonight. We'll tell you about that next on the postmatch show after a one one Sounders draw against Dallas. More next on
Sports Radio nine three point three KGr FM. Welcome back to the postmatch show, live from Lumen Field here in Seattle, Washington, where your Sounders played FC Dallas to a one to one drafts a night in case you missed the start of our postgame show, make sure to check out the podcast later on the Sounders on Demand page on nine three three KGr dot com, and of course the iHeartRadio app. Just search Sounders Weekly, which as all of our
Sounders Weekly shows, postgame shows and full match replace well. In terms of what's coming up next for your Sounders, it is actually League's Cup, which is a new tournament, a larger expanded tournament from the League's Cup that we've been in the past. Obviously, Sounders went to the final couple of years ago down in Las Vegas. This time the tournament is much bigger and much better, as the Tire Leagues legat MX down in Mexico and MLS here in
the States will now face off that begins next Saturday. The next MLS action won't be until August twentieth here at Loumanfield, Atlanta, coming to town on Sunday, August twentieth, but Four Leagues Cup, the first match of the group stage will be next Saturday at Rail Salt Lake. It's Saturday, July twenty second, six thirty kickoff at America First Field in Sandy, Utah. You can watch the match via MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app or
listen right here Sports Radio ninety three point three KGr FM. The Providence, Swedish premt Show will begin at six o'clock next Saturday for Sounders and RSL in the group stage and Brad As we continue the conversation from the previous segment, the big question is we know is Brian Schenzer Craig wie Will have said they're gonna go for this. This is a trophy that the Sounders don't have,
and this is a club that goes for every trophy available. So considering they are gonna go for it, they're gonna put out a top level lineup. The question is what is that top level lineup? Is it a variation of what we saw tonight where Nicholas Ladero starts on the bench and you have a Jual Paulo, Obed Vargas and chew Is on the left, Russknacks in the middle, Roldan's on the right, Ruy Diaz Slash Morris the striker, or
do you figure out a way to get to Ladero back? Starting on the field, how do you structure the best starting eleven with pretty much everybody healthy, right now for that tournament, I'm not exactly sure because I think Salt Lakes in a position where they could probably feeld a pretty strong lineup right now, yeah, and go for it. I think the Sounders have to be careful in this tournament late in the season because we've got bit last year and
not having a full strength lineup heading into the summer months, and we all know what happened there right not making the playoffs, And we just have to be very careful about who we feeld in this tournament because the main emphasis is Major League Soccer. And I like the Open Cup because it's a little bit earlier in the season and I think in years past we've been able to field, you know, for the first couple rounds, we've been able to field
mixed lineups. This is a tournament where I think no one knows what's going to happen and what lineups are supposed to be fielded, and what lineups other teams are gonna field. So I think it's a bit of a guessing game here. I think it has more emphasis than the Open Cup to most teams because you're playing teams from outside the country and I think that they'll probably play mixed lineups too. But I think we're going to be in a case where
you're going to see a mixed lineup. I think you'll see Nicko back on the field. It'll give a chance for him to get some games under his belt, maybe back at that number ten. But it's also we're playing Salt Lakes. Do you put Rusnak out there to get consistency? It's who knows. I thought tonight. I don't know why JP came off the field a little bit of a head scratcher for me, unless he picked up a little
bit of something. But I could tell you what. Ozzie's not coming off of that field unless it's a ninety fifth minute or he's got a bone sticking out of his leg. So I'm gonna go in the locker room and ask JP what's going on because you don't see that very often that your number you know, your number six, who's your try true steady player comes off the field and sacrifices his role for someone else. So a lot of questions will be asked. I don't expect to see a full strength lineup. If the
Sounders are smart, they'll give JP arrest coming off in ACL. This will be his first chance to really get arrest and get his feet underneath him and make a charge at the end of the season. So yes, there's emphasis on this tournament, but like I said, there's a lot of questions around it too. Well let's go down there and let's start asking those questions. We'll head down to the locker room. That'll be it for our broadcast tonight.
I want to thank Mitchell back in the studio running everything tonight. Great call tonight from Danny Jackson, Steve Zakiwani, Terry here on side, Keiley keaving everything on the rail as our broadcast director. Here on side, my name is Jackson Felt, Brad Evans alongside. We thank you so much for
listening here tonight. Unfortunately the Sounders could not pick up all three points, but it is a point shared here at luman Field, the final one one between the Sounders and FC Dallas. So we'll talk to you next Saturday for League's Cup beginning six pm pre match six kickoff from Sandy, Utah for Sounders and RSL. And until then make sure to listen to Sounders weekly Wednesday seven
pm right here on ninety three point three KJR FM. Have a very good evening, everybody, have a good weekend and we'll talk to you coming up next Saturday for leagu's Cup action. You've been listening to the Sounders FC postmatch show Sounders FC Soccer. It's brought to you by Providence Swedish official healthcare partner
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