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To final from lumen Field, Your Sounders and the Houston Dynamos flit the points. A zero zero final tonight from women Field, a match that we talked about it at a halftime. We had to get more numbers, get more offense. Going at the start of it and getting the entire second half, we just didn't see it as nothing hits the back of the net for either side and it is a zero zero finals.
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Jackson, Feltz, Chance Fry and p Fewing here for the next twenty five.
Thirty minutes or so to talk about this game.
And I think the way I would describe it best chance is that of all the soccer games I've seen, that was certainly one of them.
Yeah, that was a little rough on both teams. It just felt like there wasn't a lot of confidence on either side of the field.
You know, we got a little bit unlucky.
There were a couple of deflections that could, you know, with a little bit of luck, could have gone in and we would have taken an ugly win like that. I think when Georgie came in, he had a positive impact immediately when he came in, and it would have been nice. There were a couple of times when he was cutting in and I just wanted him to just run by guys. I think that would have been you know, hope. You know, maybe you never know, but I think that
that would have been something more positive. I would have liked to have seen on the other side of the field as well, Paul taking people on versus cutting it back so much. Just go for it and take him on. Go to the end line, get the crossover, get a corner some Yeah.
It's two teams trying to find their way, two teams that aren't really confident. I'm sure Ben Olsen, the Houston coach, is probably pleased to come away with the zero zero with a tie, get a point out of that one on the road at Seattle. I'm sure that they are with that but I think for Brian, he's going to be disappointed that they didn't finish a chance or two. They had a flurry in my opinion in the thirty eight thirty nine forty fifth minute first half where they
had some chances and opportunities. There was one late in the game and Albert Rusnik just ran into Paul Rothrock's path. Paul had a good look at the goal and they they both were going for the same ball. So we are not creating luck for this team yet this year. We are not creating that luck. And I say that because we've given up some own goals. We had Charlotte two nothing and then they end up getting the tie and the goal against RSL RSL with knew who heading the ball into the back of the net.
Yeah.
So so it's just we have not created the luck that we need to create and he's got to keep grinding.
So that I do think that we have been fatigued. I do think it's gonna I hope.
That we see a much sharper performance with San Jose at San Jose next week.
And defensively with another shoutout, that's good.
I mean, you're Stephen Fry at the end of the broadcast, and obviously I'll say that Tonight's Toyota Man of the Match is game Art Gomez on Johnny, you know, a really good play in the first half, dragging back in interception, keeping Houston out of the back of the net.
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Present tonight's man of the match, But it is the offensive end. And Pete, I want to I want to kind of pick out something you said there. It's it's it's you said it was two teams. We don't have a lot of confidence right now. And I think the question that Sounder fans will be asking right now is without Pedro de Levega still a couple of weeks out, maybe a few weeks out, two to four, Jordan Moore
is still a bit out. How does this team and chance I'll start with you, how does this team create offensive confidence while still missing those guys?
Because I agree that with Pe, with with with what Pete said.
Excuse me, I just don't see offensive confidence out there.
Yeah, that's one of the most difficult things in soccer is to have confidence. I know from my personal experience. When you are scoring goals and chances are coming, you think everything's going to go in. But you could see tonight there was a couple of times when we had half chances and there was a bit of hesitation. There was a little bit of you know that last one that Rothrock hid over reaching for it, not stepping into
it and confidently side footing it in. And there was one other one in the first half that he had where he hesitated. I think it was maybe Alex Rodan on the back post went for a side foot low to the goalkeeper. Goalkeeper makes a good foot save. You know, maybe you just like put your laces through it with confidence and it flies into the back corner. But that is to answer your question. It's very difficult. It's not something you can just say, hey, guys, have more confidence.
Ought to be something that you just do and then it happens and then you go from there.
You scored a lot of goals as a pro.
My account was over one hundred, right, So how when you were in a bit of a slump, how'd you get out of that?
You know what, you just have to believe. You have to believe in yourself and you have to.
Understand that whenever you're a striker, you're going to miss a lot more than you're going to make, and so you have to have that mental fortitude to just keep shooting, to keep going after it, don't be afraid to fail, let me quickly and all.
That's very true.
I'm wondering, then, if they don't have that mentality right now, is it having some mental coach come.
In and say these things.
How do players go from clearly not doing what you just said to doing what you just said.
Well, I'll tell you how I did it. If I wasn't scoring goals, I would go back to the basics. I would go back to somebody just pinging the ball at me, side footed and side footed and side foot, and even if there were easy goals, it was just getting that confidence back, getting that you know, feeling of like, yes, I can do this and get the easy ones and then the harder ones will come. But you have to
just get back to the basics. Or I'd go inside the box with my back to the goal and look around to turn and you know, just figure out where things were at my angles and stuff like that.
Go back to the basics.
Yeah, you know, it sounds funny, but just standing two yards away from the goal line and smashing the ball into the back of the net, having it come back to you and smashing it again, over and over.
And over and over again, getting your confidence going.
Your question that started with chance, I will say this, I like the lineup today. I didn't see a hole in the lineup right if guys are playing to their capabilities. I thought it was a very strong lineup that he put out, and Georgie was the logical sub, the good sub his chance did. He made an impact when he came onto the field. So I don't want to say I don't think it's personnel right now. I think it's getting the mind right and clicking a little better. You
said it at halftime, combining better. We're not combining like we've seen us combine in the past.
Yeah, and the first half.
One thing I would have really liked to see from hay Sewis is trying to do some some flicks and tricky passes where we needed to have somebody hold the ball, get people up the field, get them to join into the play, and then develop from there. I think just doing some basic stuff checking off of his defender, getting it, just laying it back and then running again and developed from there would have been nice to see.
Because you've got better shape in the attacking third, right, And so what what Chance I think is talking about is he's giving up the ball in the middle third, keep it and then get yourself forward right, get yourself into your when chance and never teammates. The goal was to get him inside the box because that's where he did his that was his office right right right, And we didn't get guys in their office enough.
So and that's the perfect segue to my question, which is are we using Jesus.
For the right way right now?
I don't know we have an option.
To get Oh that's that's a sad answer, piece, No know.
What I mean is I don't think.
I don't think you look at what you're when you're best eleven that you can put out and you're putting Hayesus in best spot for him and for the team. So I don't think we have an option to use him any differently. And I wouldn't put him I personly wouldn't put him a difference, I guess.
I guess the question more is about is about how obviously he needs to play at the nine right now, like that's that's just a reality with Jordan out. So the question comes the ways that you use him as a nine. I mean maybe I don't know, maybe you play with a false nine and have Hayesus be the guy.
I don't know, but like I just it's it's it's not working. Obviously.
I think that we need to be careful not to form any really strong opinions about Jyesus or the team right now after a game or two. You know, it's still really early in the season. They've had to make some, you know, pretty significant changes because of injuries and things like that. I just think that we need to be a little bit patient, you know. You know, we didn't lose. There wasn't we didn't take a bunch of shots against
us or anything like that. So I think just you know what, it it wasn't a game we all enjoyed watching, all right, let's be honest about that. Yeah, but I don't think we need to press the panic button yet.
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A discussion because there wasn't really one we could absolutely point to. This was obviously a d defensive game. Fry came up a couple of times, Yamar came up. There were there were I kind of you know, saw it late in the game. Fry made you know, rather easy save and.
So well.
And chance you pointed out that Yamar did have a good moment in the first half, but it was you know, looking at defensive plays for a Houston team that never really pushed.
Yeah, and Yamar did.
He chased back and he tackled and won that ball, which is our play of the match. There there was also one I believe it was offside, but Stephan made a really good save, right, really good save. So yeah, you know what, sometimes there's gonna be games like this, you know, like we were just talking about, they came in just to take a point to steal a point. They weren't really super excited about getting forward. That's very
difficult to play against. And if you aren't playing quicker, which is what Pete just mentioned, I'll let him talk about that. It's gonna be hard to break him down if you let them set the set up in the back.
I go back to that Charlotte game.
The first goal, the ball that was played, what whipped it was pinged one to Georgie and I think he first timed it to Jordan Morris, and it didn't allow Charlotte, who was here so on the road parking the bus a little bit, didn't allow them time to get set up at halftime of this, so they played quick.
At halftime of this game.
We you know, we see Craig Wible, scouting sporting director, Yeah, vice president of soccer, general manager, general manager, thank you, and he just said, we got to play quicker, and I would agree. And I think a lot of teams get numbers inside the box. They've got, you know, a line of four maybe five, and that makes it a lot tougher.
So we got to get it out wide.
If you can get crosses in where your opponent is running back toward their goal. That makes it very difficult. One the chances of an own goal are higher, and two it doesn't give them a chance to set up. So it's great that we get out wide. It's great that Rothrock is on the left and he cuts inside, but by the time he's cut in, they have got their numbers in the spots they want to be in,
so that's not quite as easy. So I think if we can play a little quicker when you're playing against a team that is coming here and saying, yeah, let's I again. Ben also will be thrilled to Houston coach with a point for sure.
Yeah.
And the other thing that we haven't really mentioned and what we did well against LAFC is you know we didn't I'd like to see the replay because we didn't have a lot of shots outside the eighteen yard box where we were hitting bombs from like twenty five maybe twenty three, twenty four yards right and just really testing their goalkeeper, especially whenever they put their third string keeper.
I believe it was in good point.
You know, just hitting a shot you never know what's going to happen on the wet surface, and we didn't really test them that way either it's.
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Whatever you're listening to us on right now Sounders FC radio channel on the iHeartRadio app. That's how you can tune us in seven o'clock Providence prematch show, Chance Pete. This is a San Jose team, and we mentioned Charlotte that last segment. Charlotte's now three to one and one. They just tore San Jose a new one tonight with a big win. And it's a San Jose team that started really well, Bruce Arena, Joseph Martinez.
It looked really good, and after it looked really good, it's looked really bad.
This is a San Jose team where I'm sure earthquake fans are asking themselves, will the real quakes please stand up?
Well, I don't know if it's the new coach Bump. I got a lot of respect for Bruce Arena and what he's done. He wins wherever he goes. But yeah, they come out gangbusters. They go two wins to start the season. They've had three losses now, I know when they had el Meda when he came to them. It was a big to do that. He came to coach. San Jose had a very very distinct coaching style and tact, which was man man coverage. Wherever your guy goes, to
stay with him. That worked at the beginning, and then it wore off.
It certainly didn't work here in the seven to one loss.
No, it did not. It was a good example of a bad example.
So you know, San Jose, I'll never count brucerine now because like Brian Schweitzer, he's good at putting players in the right spots, he's good at getting finding wins. So and he doesn't like losing. None of these coaches like losing,
but he's one who hasn't lost a lot. So yeah, Joseph Martinez has the ability to take over a game, no question about that, so right now, And I really, I honest, I'm not trying to play Homer here, but I really think that one more week off, one more week in between a game, will make a difference in recovery and rejuvenation right for mental as well. And again,
I don't like making any excuses. Brian would not want me to make any excuses for his team, but I think you have to be honest that eight games in twenty four days, flying all all over the place a lot. Yeah, yeah, you're in Guatemala, right, you're in Mexico and then going through what we just went through with four guys going down with injuries, two guys going on to so it's just a regroup time.
And like Chance said, you know, I think when.
You're not playing at your best, you're not a sharp You just got to put a little more time. And sometimes it's just players staying after practice and ping the balls right. And so I'm optimistic about what we can do. If this lineup starts against San Jose, I'd be very optimistic. Better weather than what we're playing in right now.
But I think that another week off will help him get everything right.
I would totally agree with that. And I think that
Brian's going to see that. He's going to know he gave him some days off and everything, but he's going to see that their legs were a little tired, they weren't sharp, and I think that he's going to stay positive as he always does, and we just need I just wrote down some notes a positive week of training work on their attacking patterns, getting guys used to each other a little bit more, and then I would like to see him work on some first time finishing, because
I just do believe in that so much, even if it's just simple somebody driving to the inline, cutting it across, coming in side foot, hit the net, hit the net, hit the net, and get that confidence going.
All right, Well, I think, Pete, to what you said about the weather, I think every Seattleite looks forward to the weather turning here as we watch the rain continue to scream, you know, come all the way down here at lumin Field, and the rain kind of it definitely reflects the mood of the what was it, by the way, a phenomenal crowd tonight, really really really good crowd tonight at lumin Field, and I think we all wish that it was a more fun game, more attractive I win,
but that didn't happen. So the rain definitely reflects the mood of the people leaving the stadium tonight. In what was a zero zero draw between the Sounders and Dynamo once again, Sounders, San Jose Earthquakes. Next Saturday night, seven o'clock Providence. We just prematch show seven point thirty kickoff, right here Sounders, FC Radio stream Channel and iHeart Radio. I will have the play by play call alongside Dana
brad Evans. Michelle Ludka. We'll have your pre half alongside these two gentlemen, Pete Viewing and Chance Fry, who I thank for the fantastic And it was great to have you know, a friend in here tonight, Chance and Uh and somebody you know so that that was that was very fun to have them in here.
Yeah, thank you so much. It was really great. Uh.
It was an auctioned prize at our at our auction and they were super excited to be there. And little Uh Rohan did an awesome job.
I thought Rohan did great.
Do you want to say thanks to your parents?
I should say thanks to my parents.
I know they're listening.
Yeah, to parents, A little missus Fry God bless you.
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