Welcome to the Sounders FC Postmatt Show. Sounders FC Sucker is brought to you by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Seattle Sounders FC. The Sounders fccene Postmatt Show starts now. Well, it's a final from Sonny Luminfield. Your Seattle Sounders have split the points with the Colorado Rapids a final score of one to one. Welcome into the postmatch show Jackson Feltz and James Riley for the next half hour as we discuss this, I feel like I just jumped in
a cold lake right now. Oh, oh my gosh, what a last forty five minutes of this match. There is so many things to discuss. I have no idea where we want to start, James, so let's just start by simply getting the overall reaction where Sounders leading one nothing at half, Josh Attensio gets a second yellow He's sent off Colorado's pressing. They eventually get the equaliser in the eighty eighth minute. There was about ten thousand yellow cards
given out. I mean, just a whirlwind of the last forty five minutes. But James, the final score is only one one. Yeah. An eventful game for sure. I think when you look at it and you do some self reflection, you know, the Sounders will think that there's there's points that slipped away. But credit to the Rapids when they got the man advantage, they really started to pour it on. I thought the Sounders bent but didn't break until that free kick and then the follow up. So it's just
those different moments in the game, but overall great effort. I think the Sounders will feel like it definitely is a loss. One with giving up the main advantage with a double yellow unfortunate, and then two being up a goal and not being able to weather that storm any way possible unfortunate, the great save from the keeper off the post crossbar, and then the follow up,
so it's just kind of one of those things. I mean, Andrew Thomas, you know, not only the save on what ends up being the goal and it's the rebound that goes in, but it's his saving the penalty. I mean, I'll tell you right now, I think it's pretty obvious Today's
Toyota Man of the Match is Andrew Thomas. I'll mention your local Toyotdalers are proud to present today's man of the match, but Andrew Thomas had its spectacular game and you watched when that final whistle wins after ninety nine minutes of play, every single sound or to play, a player either either bent to their knees or fell to their knees. You could see playing with ten men for thirty three plus nine minutes and just the effort that it took today to even
get a point in this match. I mean, they gave their all, but it's it's it comes at the end of quite an effort from a lot of players on this team. It just wasn't enough for all three. Yeah, you talk about thirty three plus nine, forty two minutes of playing down
a man in this heat. The turf is hot on a hot day, you know, when you've put a lot into the first half, not coming in knowing, you know, obviously not preparing, preparing for it, but to have to do it with forty two minutes of game time is very difficult. And a lot of times you see teams get a man advantage and it's
actually a benefit to the team that's bunkering, right. I just think they needed to maybe condense their line of confrontation and just bunker and two blocks of eight you know, put two blocks of four plus the one when you get stretched. I mean, it's just a lot of ground for everyone to cover. So for me, it was just to drop the line in confrontation back maybe even the halfway line top of the circle, get very condensed and come back and be difficult to break down. But I just thought when one goes
it just too many gaps and a lot of work. But like you said, the guys put their heart and soul into it. You know they're working. They're trying to work in transition, in possession, in defensive shapes and pockets, so you know they'll they'll definitely feel hard done, but unfortunate, absolutely indeed. And there's a lot to discuss with this one win result for
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you just come up absolutely huge for your team there. The Play of the Match is presented by Emerald Queen Gasino, the betting capital of the Northwest. James, what a moment that was. Obviously, he comes up with the initial save on the free kick that eventually leads to the Rapids goal. But Andrew Thomas's day overall was excellent, very very good showing by him. You know, almost an opportunity for two shutouts in a row, right. I
thought he showed his quality. I thought he commanded his box. I thought he was good on the saves that he needed to make. You could hear him and see him talking and organizing the back line. Very very good showing not only the penalty stop, but this saves that he just needed to make cleanly as a goalkeeper. And then on the eventual equalizer getting a hand to that free kick. That's a dangerous spot for a free kick, especially when
you have two capable guys. They had a left footed guy and a right footed guy, and the left footed guy is the one that stepped over it first kind of peeled back and it kind of allowed the right foot guy to kind of come through and it actually it was a fantastic free kick and even a better save, and it's just unfortunate the bounce it could literally the tip
could go off the cross bar post and go out for a corner. It could go anywhere, but it literally set perfectly, you know, kind of rebounded inside the frame of the goal, which is, you know, perfect for a tap and so very unfortunately Kevin Cabral that's the easiest goal he'll have
his entire life. But what a day there from Andrew Thomas. Well deserved less and Stephen Fry is still working back from a right hamstring strain and listen, as long as Stephan fryes out, I'd say let's just be cautious because there's no reason to rest Stephen Fry when you have a goalkeeper and goal like Andrew Thomas, who I have immense confidence in him every single time we're going
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one, Colorado Rapids one. Let's head down to the bowels of Lumenfield where head coach Brian Schmitzer is currently speaking. Continue to keep at it, can continue to work at it, and then so we go down further in the year. We'll make assessments in the next transfer window. I mean, that's the that's the plan. Uh, you're gonna give Jordan the first shot because he earned that last year. You're gonna Raoul a shot. We signed Masofsky, We've got forwards at you know, can score, So at some point
that's going to be addressed. I'm not so sure that's the you know, reason why we drew. I mean we could, we could maybe talk about that. I'm sure somebody will ask me that question, but certainly it is a concern because had we put the game away two nothing, we scored the second goal, game's over. Jeremiah, Yeah, So I guess along those same lines, it seemed like the match was easily in control when the red card came, and I guess, what did you think of the way your
team? You guys handled the playing down a man fine up until the set piece. I mean, look, you're going to be put under pressure. Did we have enough possession? And maybe not. Hobvey's injury came at the wrong time because we're going to make a different sub and Hobvey coming off certainly was an issue, so we flipped it around. But I thought it was fine up until a set piece. And I will tell you what I told those guys in there the game. It's a team sport and everybody needs to
do what they can. You know, games are not won and lost on one play. Okay, But Andrews says the penalty and it makes us say that ball is going for the upper corner. I mean, that's a good free kick and and it makes a better save. And where are his teammates to help him in that moment? Why is it that the Colorado player gets there first? After we trained that two days ago. Two days ago we worked on all our defending set pieces, so that that, you know,
is an issue, and that's something Jose we can clean up. All right, we'll come down to miss here in the front row. Yeah, I guess I'm just speaking to that. You start out just free flowing for the first fifteen minutes of the first half there and the end there, there's some decisions making obviously that you got to be somewhat frustrated with, Like you're saying, the helping out a set pieces, not picking up yellow cards, just you just decision making in the finals, that would say, half of the
second half. Yeah, Okay, you're all over the shop. They're a little bit was I mean the first part of it, first part of your question, let me address it. So, yeah, I thought the team start off well. I mean the gold that kindale was deserved, Raoul, I mean that's a again, you know, it takes a lot of courage to do that. So we're we're kind of in control. And have we played our best stuff? No, but we're in control of the match. And then yes, you get a couple of decisions that players make and the
game starts to unravel a little bit. And how did we react? How did we circle the wagons and try and hold onto one nothing? You know, it's unfortunate that, you know, Josh gets the second yellow, but I can't argue with the referee. Can Andy must have seattle of times? You know, Andrew Thomas and like, you know, put in a really good shift for your guys today. He's been more pretty good since stepping in
for seven. What do you kind of asked him to do, kind of stepping into this role right now, Well, we asked him to keep us in games, which he has. I can't fault him for the goals that he took against LAFC and I can't really fault him for the goal he took today. He did everything he could, saved Bentley, saved a free kick, was in control of his box. You know, made a couple of says early. You know he had to come down ball skipping off the turf.
I think the kid's been good. That's Seattle Sounders FC head coach Brian Schmitzer following today's one to one game here between the Sounders and Colorado Rapids here at Loominfield. Very quickly, I'll tell you that Sounders e FC Socker is presented by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Sounders FC. James. I want to go back to his second answer there he was talking about he can't knock the refereeing where indeed, I think we can all agree it was a
second yellow one Josh Atensio. That's a fair red card. No disagreements there. The weirdness of that play, and I mean as a foreigner player, let's see if you agree with me, is the fact that the the ref stops play about a minute after that slide tackle and for the for the minute in between. You know, I'm kind of saying to myself, all right, well, that must mean that it's not a second yellow, because in a case like this, if it is going to be a red, if
you are going to send a player off, the game stops immediately. And because everything changes when when a team goes down. Man, so you stop the game, you give the second yellow, He's off. Done. The game kept going for about a minute until randomly you sounders were working up the field on the left side with knu who and Chew randomly just stops and boom, second yellow card. Attensio is gone in the middle of the run of play a minute later. Really really weird situation there. Yeah, that one
was a unique one. You're definitely gonna feel, you know, hard done by that. But I think coach Spitzer, you know, said it no no argument with the double yellow. I think the way it transpands I spired so kind of uniquely is the frustration. But you know, I think you know what what Smetzer alludes to, and this is for me, is his his kind of ability to lead in difficult times is what really makes him specially
he goes listen, things are in our control. We worked on defensive set pieces on following up the play you know, why is it a rapids players there before a defensive player? Fair statement? I mean, why is frustrated too? So it was very certainly right. So those are kind of fair statements. And the guys will always do self reflection. They'll look at the video, they'll look at the film and see what they've could have done better. But he said it as we jumped in early on, like they just
got to get back on the horse. There's nothing you can do like get back to it, right, take what you can learn from this and go. You know, some things that they have done. I mean they're still undefeated at home, which is great. Three goals against in three games, right, two goals, a multi goal game, then the shutout, a multi goal game against LAFC and then a shutout last week at home and then that one, like very close to having another shutout too, shut out,
you know, two shoutouts in the row. Obviously you have the gap with the Philadelphia game, but you know, the defensive side of the ball is good. I think when we jumped in the you know, the question was probably alluding to something about goal scoring and creating opportunities, and I think, you know, full confidence again in Jordan and Ruy Diaz and those guys to create goals and really find their rhythm. But goal scoring, as we know,
is not easy, and Rold look good at this. He did like Rowell obviously, and we mentioned in the halftime show that penalty that he scored in the eleventh minute is his seventy ninth career goal for the Sounders across all competitions. That ties him with Freddie Monterroll for the most all times. So the next goal from Roll will put him at number one over Freddy and I think in all three matches we've seen so far this year, James Roll has
looked very good. I agree today he was very good. It was unfortunate that he had to get subbed out. More of a man management kind of manage the game being down a man. But you have Ruy Diaz on him, you have your new you know, young DP signing del Vega who obviously is out with the injury. But those are the guys that you've brought into unlocked and create some some production up front. But I think, for without
a doubt, Ruy Diaz was frustrated when he came off. And again Spencer's not wanting to He's just like, looking at the game, what puts the team currently in the best position to steal off this one zero victory because he came off when it was still one one zero for the Sounders, which is the frustrating thing and it's unfortunate, but you roll that dice, you understand it, and like you said, it's a team game, so you do your role that you're called upon. He was called upon to play sixty sixty
five minutes today and you know he did his job. He did his job well. His goal gives the Sounders their goal and unfortunately Colorado gets one as well. It is a one to one final from Bloomenfield. Well, Sounder fans. Sound Transit would like to remind everyone to obey all signs and signals went around train tracks. Light reel trains are quiet and come in both directions, so stay aware and play it safe. Learn more about safety and security
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sports Radio nine fifty KJR. Welcome back to Luminfield, where your Seattle sounders have gotten a point today. They split it with the Colorado Rapids, who get a one to one result as well. On the road, a late goal gets the equalizer. But sign to take a look ahead at what's next for your sounders and for your sounders, it's gonna be on the road next
Saturday night. They're heading to San Jose to face the earthquakes. It's a seven o'clock Providence Swedish pre mat show right here sports Radio nine to fifty kJ AM and seven thirty kickoff for sounders in San Jose Earthquakes. You know to watch the match via MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app or listen in Spanish language on l Ray thirteen sixty. So as we wrap up the postmatch show, Jackson Feltz James Riley here from Luminfield. James, as we were
just talking in the break about what the Sounders now do. Josh Atencio red card, he must miss the next match there against San Jose. But Albert Russnack returns to the game. He comes in in the match and he looks fine. I would seem that he got what sixty you know, you got thirty nine minutes of action. So it would seem to me, James, that you could almost continue in a four to four to two. Slip Russnak in for Atensio and you're good to go. But there's other wrinkles they could
put into that. At the same time, there are I think Russnack more of an attacking player. A Tensio, you know, covers more ground, is in charge of winning more of the duels and headers and knockdowns, and so it's not necessarily a like for like, But if they wanted to stay with the four four to two formation flat they could or they could modify as we spoke about, into a diamond, put Russhnak into the tip of that f goal scoring is the issue, and then have Russnach kind of helping facilitate
Jordan Morrison, Ruie Diez, you know. Or you could revert to a back to a four two three one variation and just kind of, you know, switch some other additional players around. So certainly you know something that coach Smetzer and the team will look at and be ready. I'm sure they'll put in a great week of training this week and be ready for that San Jose clash, which will be of a very big game. Yeah, there's the
interesting thing. Let's go back to the diamond comment with for our for our last point here, because we're seeing Rollery Diaz have all that flexibility and all that freedom to kind of roam around. And while it's listed as a four to four to two where roll is next to Jordan, we're seeing role play a little bit off of him, a little bit behind him. He'll roam
around. And it seems to me where if you can tell, if you say Russnick in this four to four two diamond, you are the head of that diamond, you have this pocket, and then Rol you have the freedom to play off a Russnack and kind of find that space and find that pocket between Jordan. We talked about link up play in the in the pre match show, and it feels like a situation where you have obed, you know,
in the spine of the team. You have Obed, then you have Russneck, you have Rol finding a pocket, and you have Jordan up front. That link play could end up finding some really interesting and good results in Sanjose if that's what they do. Very true. I mean, you're literally putting your three most attack minded, production based players in front of goal.
Right You're putting Jordan Morris Ruy Diaz with Russnack behind it, right in the spine, right right up the spine, in the central part of the field. So that could be a great combination, and then everyone else just has to balance around them. You know, Chew could you know, be tucked in. But then also his game is out wide, so he could be serviced with that. That's where maybe roll Don on the right side could tuck
in to kind of help, you know, with the transitional moments. If it happened, so that Obed's not by himself, but certainly you're putting your your top three offensive minded players right in the heart of, you know, the opponent. So could be a great, great shift in formation and really
unlock some players. Christian Rodan has talked about want to playing more central, playing more in that spine, and you could almost create a second diamond where it's Jordan and then it's Roll and Christian on the right, with Roll on the left and Russknack there is as the he's the top of the first time, but he's the bottom of the second diamond. I mean that kind of link play, that kind of you know, right up through the middle,
that could do things against San Jose. I'm very interested to see what Brian Schenzer and the coaching staff a do in practice over the next week and then be what they decide to go with here next Saturday night in San Jose once again seven o'clock Provident Swedish prematch show seven to thirty kickoff Sounders San Jose a
week from today. But for today, once again it's a one to one result with the Colorado Rapids here at Lumen Field, the Sounders unfortunately giving up an eighty eighth minute equalizer, Josh Attensio red Card Hill miss that San Jose match and we'll see where we go. Want to thank everybody for tuning in today. A great job on the call today from Danny Jackson and Steve Zakwani and Steve Zachawani versus Brad Evans the halftime show as the heads went along with
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