Welcome to the Sounders FC postmat show. Sounders FC Sucker is brought to you by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Seattle Sounders FC. The Sounders F scene postmat show starts now. Welcome into the Sounders FC postmatch show here at Lumenfield. As the Sounders fall three zero to the LAFC, Well fellas. Not often do we see the Sounders get outclassed in every aspect of the game on their home field, but we saw that tonight with LAFC just fully dominating
first half, kind of things went their way. Sounders tried to make adjustments in the second half, ended up playing right into their hands. They just hit us on the counter. With one more goal from Bowonga, who was once again the difference maker tonight with two goals. Lamar break down what you saw from the second half. Sounders with a little bit of sustained pressure to open the half, but nothing to show for it. Yeah, it was
what you expected leading into the second half. They're up, lafc's up to zero. They were able to sit back even more and just play on the counter and hopefully get some possession up top. First fifteen minutes they didn't get out of their half. I thought the Sounders, you know, it's very hard for a team to sit with sustained pressure on them for forty five minutes and not give up a goal. So the first fifteen minutes, I thought, we got to get something. There has to be some break. We
got to get a lucky bounce or something like that. It didn't happen. They're able to, you know, counter a little bit, get a little bit of possession further up the field as time went on past that fifteen minutes, and then they bring on Kai, who you know is obviously going to be able to hold the ball up really well, and they get that break. Pretty frustrating, I think not being able to score when a team sits back and parks the bus. That's been pretty difficult for the Sounders for a
while now. Having somebody that you know, maybe on the outside, goes at somebody one on one or gets the ball and keeps going at him. That's what I would like to see, is because I'm a winger, right, I want to see wingers go at one on one, beat somebody and then make pull out defenders take shots from distance, that sort of thing, Brad you talked about the tactical changes that you wanted to see in the second
half or your evaluations for how that looked well. I think he made some subs also and that changed the game just a little bit, added a little bit of life. You know, Reid moves back to left back. I think it was a bit more impactful from a deeper position, something that Schwetz will have to think about, you know, as the season kind of unfolds,
and how he wants to play. I mean, any time you play against a team here and you're up to nothing, like Lamar said, they're happy to absorb pressure, and if they can withstand that for fifteen to twenty minutes, then you know that they're gonna have to keep pushing. They're gonna get tired, and that's when you catch them on the brink. I mean, everything worked out in Lafc's hands tonight. It caught him on the break with Bouwonga with a fantastic finish, and as soon as Kai picked it up,
you could see there's one thing on his mind. He knew exactly where boow Woga was without even having to look up, and Jackson's caught no man's land and read not quick enough to catch up to Bowanga. No one is so tech. But you know, a couple half chances in the sect and half yes, but not enough to say that the Sounders really put La f
C under any real danger. I mean at the end there, like we were talking about, was you know a stoppage time save from from last and you know, but that's never gonna happen when you're down three to nothing. Yeah, he played Superman there in the last five minutes, made some crazy saves, but wasn't really tested until at a time was put on the clock. So Brad I got a question, Yeah, what do you think the solution is for when a team parks the bus? What do the Sounders need
to do differently? I think you go two up top for sure. I think you go two up, you go straight, three five two, and you get the ball into wide areas and you just swing in balls. Because at every single practice when we played offense versus defense, the last that's the worst practice of the year is when all four of us are sitting back there and we're just getting peppered with crosses and the attackers are coming at us NonStop.
And it's the same in a game like if if If LAFC is gonna sit back there with five and the Sounders aren't gonna wit balls in, I'm happy If I'm LAFC. Everything's in front of me. I don't have to turn around and face my own goal. Against Saint Louis, we scored the first goal from getting down at the end line. It's whipping a ball in, and in the first half there was a couple where the ball came in and we won the knockdown. And sometimes it's not about the first ball,
it's about the second ball. It's about the third ball. It's about the sustained pressure that happens when you do swing in the ball. And tonight the service just wasn't good enough. Yeah, no, I agree. I mean something has to change, right. You can't have one guy sitting up top and then just have possession to be passing it around the outside of the box. Yeah, one v three with three center backs on him too, you're not gonna favorite job as a center back. I also think taking shots from
distance, and that's the first thing where all did. Yeah, as soon as he got in he touched the ball, you knew he wanted to shoot. He was about thirty out. But at least that might start to draw players out if there is some danger from outside and then there might be the space to pass through. And now it was the first shot on goal for Sounders against Hugo Lories today, who was good, especially in the last couple
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Ball program. Fellows, I want to see if you guys think if this is a one off in a good run of form and you just came up against a good team tonight that was ready to play against you, or if there's something deeper where a good team you know, you've paid against some probably lesser teams for sure in the last ten or so games, I would say, and Brian needs to make some adjustments going up against the stronger side.
Yeah, well it's always difficult. I mean the Sounders, yes, have been in a very good run of form, but I like I said in pregame, we haven't seen the best of the Sounders yet. And for LAFC it's kind of the obverse. It's they've had a very very good season. They sit in first place in the West once again. And so if we thought that we were just going to come in here, yes we're in a good run of form and really put it on an LAFC team, then we've
got the season wrong already. And I think that this is an eye opener for the guys. It's an eye opener for the coaches to say, yes, have we made progress? Absolutely? Are we where we want to be? No? And that is now. The measuring stick is LAFC and the Galaxy as well. LA Galaxy. You're about to win against Portland. So there are still teams in the upper echelon of this Western Conference, and there's a lot of work for the Sounders team to secure a top four spot.
Because spet said, supporter shields out of the question, right, we just want to focus on trying to get a home game that requires a top four finish. I think if you can find a solution to you know, when a team parks the bus and you can find goals in that, then that's going to make other teams have to change. Right. If LAFC knows that they can do that away at our home and still come out with a victory
like this, then they're all too happy to do that. I think if you find that, I don't think this is like a dire thing that we lost three zero. Honestly, a PK ball goes out great strike off of a set piece, so then you're down to zero and then it turns into this type of game that they love to play. So I think you find a solution for teams parking the bus and you score some goals that way, then that brings them out and we're in a fine space. It's not just
l AFC. They just provided a blueprint for other teams that can come in and have success against the Sounders. So how do they make that adjustment run? Well, I think it's different. I think early on in the season you saw teams come in here and park the bus and the Sounders had no solution. But then you get halfway through a season and the teams that the Sounders played were all desperate for wins. Right. We didn't play top teams
throughout the course of the last two months. We played teams that if they don't win, the coach is getting fired. You can't just come into Seattle then and park the buzz and hope to get a tie. A tie does no good for the teams that we have already played. So yes, if a winning team that wants to chase for the Shield in September October, if the Galaxy come here, yeah, they can sit back and say, okay, we think we can get a point here, right, and we can
keep them off the board. So I think there's a couple teams that the blueprint works for, but all the other teams everyone needs points. It's too tight. Yeah. Sounders FC Soccers Breneta presented by Provident, Swedish official healthcare
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visiting soundtransit dot org. Slash ryde dash with dash us. Welcome back into Luminfield. As the Sounders fall three zero to LAFC Fellas. With this result, the Sounders could have today if they had come out with a win, gone all the way up to fourth place in the Western Conference, but they sit at seventh place at this point in time. Minnesota comes in next week and they're in ninth, So there's gonna be a little bit a bit of a battle there for the end of the playoff spots as we move in towards
the kind of final third of the season here. But I want to take a deeper conversation into what Lamar and you guys were talking about last segment about teams that try and park the bus on the Sounders, because it seems like that's kind of a blueprint for how to frustrate this team, especially creating chances and getting balls in behind to someone like Jordan Morris, who that's kind of
what he thrives on. Yeah, well, if you remember, the Sounders got their result when Carlos Bello was at his peak in the playoffs in La with by playing five in the back essentially, and so yes, it works. It's very frustrating for any offensive opponent. Is there an easy way to break teams down when it's five, three and two or however they're gonna set up no but yes, it is a conscious decision for a team that's chasing a supporter shield to come in here and say, we can afford to play
with three center backs and then see what happens. Right, We'll see what happens if we get out of there. We know that we can probably keep them off the board, and then if we're gonna score on the other end, we trust our attackers, and so for them, it was a tactical adjustment to come in here and say we're gonna try this and see if it
works, and sure enough, it did tonight. So Lamar, my question to you is is that an in game adjustment that Brian needs to make or is that something where he needs to prepare his team in a different way going forward. Well, I think it's something you gotta address and have everybody understand. Okay, if they are parking the bus, if we do see this, then that signals an in game change. But you're not gonna know.
You might have an idea that LAFC. Okay, they tend to do this, but like a Minnesota coming in, you know, their first intention probably isn't parking the bus. If it happens in game, Okay, now we switch to it. Now, we know what the solutions are, we know what the triggers are if we start to see that. Yeah, and I just want to go one more thing here. Let's take one positive at least from this game. I want each of you to get one for me.
What was your positive takeaway from this game there? Brad, Oh, jeez, you are gonna put me on the spot. Okay, Well, guys stayed healthy. Yeah, and this is a team that's never gonna quit even if it is two or three nothing. They know that the fans come out for a reason. You know. It was good to see Pedro on the
field, and it's just unfortunate with this. You know, when we played, there was no oh you ran this much, so then you can only you have to come off at halftime, like if a guy's feeling good, let him play, I don't you know, And you need to get these guys minutes and get him going. And so I understand that the whole sports scientist thing has changed the game quite a bit. So it was good to see him back out there. I don't see definitely haven't seen the best of
him just yet. And it's gonna take some time. But hopefully the league's couple see more of him, and he'll get some more games under his belt
with some good competition and stay healthy. So you know, the guys stayed healthy, showed fight, but not too many positives because you close out such a great run with an unfortunate loss to a top tier contender, like you said, could have been in fourth place, and now you find yourself down in seventh and the pack is just even tighter and every point is so valuable. Lamar, Yeah, I mean it's it's hard to find a positive three
zero. You have a lot of possession, but they're giving you possession, so you can't really count that, right, right, Yeah, guys getting good minutes and staying healthy. I thought the subs came on and did a good job, even though you know, we didn't get a goal, but I always love to see Rothrock running around and giving a good effort. Yeah, it's good to see that they tried to make some tactical adjustments. It's just when you start going down to zero, it's going to fall right into
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it All. Welcome back Sounders fans to the Sounders FC post match show here at Lumenfield. As the Seattle Sounders drop a match three zero to LAFC, let's look ahead to Minnesota United, guys, and a busy schedule continues for Sounders FC as two leaguees Cup matches come before the next MLS match against Minnesota United as well, so three matches with two of them coming against Minnesota United,
so kind of seeing the same opponent multiple times. Does a result like this I want to ask is does it garner a little bit of open competition for some spots in the team, especially with two Leagues Cup matches coming up? Yeah, for sure. With Leagu's Cup coming up, I think you'll see a mix because I think the main focus right now is Open Cup and obviously you know the regular season, so I think Leake's Cup you'll see a
good mix, especially it gets a Minnesota side that's struggling. Yeah. I don't think Minnesota has the luxury of throwing all their eggs into that basket in Leak's Cuts because if they pick up one or two injuries, then their whole season is a wash and they're on the cusp right now, kind of like the Sounders were about two months ago, where if they get four or five results, they could be back in the mix. So I think you'll see a mixed line up here on Friday Night. And you know, but yeah,
that opens the door for guys who haven't played too much. But there's a lot of guys on this roster I haven't played a lot that are very good players. Right, You're gonna be able to start a Roth Rock, Ruy Diez, Jonathan Bell, Alex Rodn, Mussovski, Leo Chio. All these guys are high quality players that have seen a lot of minutes. Good thing more healthy going into this turn now to mention guys that are fighting for starting spots, right Lamar, Yeah, and it's an I think it's an
exciting opportunity. We talked about in the pre match that Schmitzer doesn't know whose top eleven is. This is an opportunity for those guys to really show in a good competition. So this gives them an opportunity to shine. Should be an interesting one. We got six thirty pre game with Jackson Phelps at seven thirty announced kickoff here at Sports Are Sorry at EQC Pitch at lumen Field. That'll be an interesting one on Friday. I want to do you one more
quick one here with this result. It's tough to kind of know exactly what's going on in that locker room down with Brian Schmitzer and the guys. But is this one of those situations where you want to analyze everything what went wrong? Or is this a flush it behind you kind of one off situation and hopefully you come out and have a kind of new slate going forward. I think Schmitz will be in there and say, look, we got out played
tonight and but we have to shake this one off. And he'll say that we have a lot of work to do, and we're gonna watch film and we're gonna get back to work. He'll say that this is too good of a group to suffer a three nothing loss at home. The fans deserve better, but most importantly the players do because they have put in so much work to even get to the position where they're having a chance to fight for fourth place in the West. So yes, you kind of have to brush it
off. But this will be a week where everyone's going to have to take a step back and look at how they kind of got to that point tonight. Yeah, I bet it's like a somber mood right three zero at home anytime is going to be pretty difficult to swallow. But honestly, like I was saying, the the goals PK to start, then off the set piece a rebound like it wasn't that bad to where Okay, everything needs to be looked at. They need to find some solutions for scoring goals and that's kind
of it. I agree, all right. This season remembers Sounders fans. When the Sounders win, you'll win a free McChicken the next day, exclusively in the McDonald's app with any minimum two dollars purchase. Download the McDonald's app today and check out the deals waiting for you that will do it for us. Here from the Sounders FC post match show, thank you so much to Lamar Nagel, brad Evans absolute Sounders Legends. It's a pleasure to share the
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