Sounders FC 1 - 1 Colorado Rapids FULL MATCH REPLAY

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Two straight wins and as the weather.

Is heating up here in the let's get my mic on first two straight wins and as the weather is heating up here in the Northwest, so are your Seattle Sounders. One nothing win down in Dallas read nothing back home against Nashville and now tonight the Rave Green make it. He's try to make it a streak of three with a match down in Commerce City, Colorado against the Rapids. Let me switch Mike's really quick boys. All right, there

Certainly, the last home game was exceptional. I mean three nail, three nail, two shutouts in a row, going into a Colorado team that it's prime to also get a result in. But obviously they have to do their work. But yeah, great, great upwodole Man him from the group.

And Marcus, you know, we were on the call I think a couple of games ago, and you know, I think it's it's the momentum of this team. Defensively, it's clean sheets, it's you know, yes, you're missing Jackson Reagan. But at the same time, Kim ky Hee has come in and to our surprise. I think that in the middle of that Dallas game, and he's just rolled the last game and a half.

He's been good.

Yeah, we assumed it was going to be Bell coming in and we didn't realize he had picked up an injury in warm ups, which is kite. And then kim Ky's come in look super strong. He's got that experience, he's, you know, a veteran, and so the team hasn't missed a beat.

It is kind of a crazy story that's now become public from Brian Schtzer how it was in pregame warmups that Bell took what it was something to the head and he got to win concussion protocol.

Yeah, I thank you for a game.

Yeah, just picking up a ball out of the net and somebody just wellied.

One and oh that's it.

Well, hopefully he is all he was obviously on the bench. Today's all is good. But kim Ky he got the start, and yes, last week in the three nothing winigans Nashville, and off we go for the Sounders team right now that is looking for a third straight win. Let's dive into the delta, starting eleven for the Seattle Sounders today and really simple there's not much changes, folks. It's the same lineup as you saw last week and pretty much

Yes, you guys guys that are that are healthy.

But overall, what are your thoughts on what Brian Schmuz was doing rewarding this team this week?

Absolutely, I mean it's it's something a precedent he set and had a conversation with the group about was on the call this morning with him, and he just said, you know, playing guys that are in form right now and having competition for spots is great and that's what builds a team culture. But coming off of three zero

He said, it's interesting. You have to reward those guys, Marcus. It is difficult though, because when you have a talent like Jordan Morrison, when you have Albert Rusnak, who's now healthy, it's hard to keep those guys.

On the bench.

I know you want to reward, but that is an interesting and challenging debate.

Yeah, let me go through the bench here, Andrew Thomas, Jonathan Bell, Alex Rodan, Cody Baker, Danny Lava, Joe Powell, Ryan Kent, Albert Rusnak, Jordan markin as maybe one of the best benches we've ever had. Right, you look at that and you're going wow. And Apollo, it's one hundred and fiftieth game if he plays tonight, you know, I mean he's been here a while as well. I mean, that's a pretty good I still have my one hundred

It's a big, big achievement.

Well, JP obviously so influential in the middle of park and defensively. It's funny you're reading that bench and we kind of made this joke a couple of weeks ago, but to fully crystallize this this joke into an on air So let's say you have the team that we're starting the same lineup, but you also have a team that has Andrew Thomas and goals. Let's say your back three is Jonathan Bell plus Yamarn Knew who.

You have Alex Ruhl, Don.

And Cody Baker as your wing backs, Danny and JP holding, and then Jordan Morris up top with Albert Rusnik and Ryan Kent in the pockets under three four three versus three four three with the center backs. Kind of your bench versus your starters. The question of who wins that battle is actually an interesting question given the quality of the bench.

Well it makes training is probably very interesting because this is a dilemma Schmidtz has probably every day right when you're playing your you know, we've got a pretty strong squad and we haven't had the greatest start this year. But you know, especially with the last two results, especially a three nail victory at home, Man, it's it's looking up for us.

No, I agree.

I mean, you're gonna need to lean on your bench, the fact that we have a deep bench and guys need to be able to sharpen their teeth in competitive games, and there's no better way to do so. Now reward them because you're gonna need them throughout the summer, throughout

I mean, James, you're you're a head coach with Ballard FC, and I'm wondering, I'm kind of looking and both of you can speak to this in terms of these difficult conversations that Brian Spencer has to have for a Jordan FORI and Albert for and Alex strolled on of like, listen, I'm healthy, not on the injury report. You know, I played minutes last week. And those difficult conversations for both of you guys, I imagine been part of many of them as players with Brian Schmenzer and sort of the

Yeah, difficult conversations, and we talked about that. You know, the guy in charge has to be able to have those difficult conversations, but do it in a way that keeps the group and individuals connected.

Don't get me wrong.

If this is a playoff game tomorrow, I think you go with your tried and tested group. You go with the guys that have earned that trust and respect over years and have that championship pedigree. An away game in Colorado middle the season where you have some guys coming back from injury and you have this other guys that are in form and producing, then I think it's an

But it's a long season, right, and and a three nail victory last week, right, It's like that's you know, that's one of the probably where Schmidt started this whole conversation, we're gonna need you like Morris coming back from injury, who's neck?

You know?

And that that conversation I'm sure came into it. But I do like when you know, you don't get that full warm up right when you're coming off the bench. So I think it's harder coming off the bench sometimes versus getting a start. But I'm a goalie, so everything is completely different. So, you know, coming off the bench for a goalie is really difficult. For an outfield player

Goalie.

The first time you touch the ball might be you know, you got to be full extension for something.

Yeah, exactly, And that's gonna come up when we talk about Colorado in a minute. And we were also talking to head coach Brian Schmizer this morning, and you know, one of the questions that Danny Jackson asked him was about Stephan Fry, and he'd mentioned how even in practices,

Yeah, and with like Andrew Thomas, he's got a difficult mental thing and I was dealing with that a little bit. You know, my end of my career, right, I'm I'm there no matter what I do in training right, and I had this throughout my whole career. But you know, Stephan's gonna play like if he's fit and healthy, right, because he's done it so many years for this club, right, So it's hard to keep that whole competition for spots.

And waiting, right.

And you know we've seen with previous goalkeep right, they've moved on and they've gone and they've found spots somewhere else, right, because it's hard to display somebody who's such a solid player.

For you, Yeah, exactly, So future we'll see what happens there. But Stephen Fry is once again starting today's same starting lineup as last week against Nashville at home. Let's quickly dive into the Providence Swedish Team Health Report, which, of course every week is presented by Providence Swedish, the official healthcare partner of Seattle Sounders. FC Jackson Reagan still out right. Hamstring looks like the timeline now is down to about two to four weeks just using the math off a

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Welcome back to the Providence, Swedish premat show Seattle Sounders down in Commerce City to face the Colorado Rapids. Jackson Felt's alongside two former Colorado Rapids and two former Seattle Sounders James Riley Marcus Hannaman. Here we are here to break this thing down ahead of Danny Jackson and Calen Row also who was a part of the Colorado Rapids for twenty four hours. They will have the call for Sounders and Colorado coming up here in just under a

No, they really have.

I mean, I think they're establishing a culture, great coach and Chris Armis who is also you know, a great coach and a great player. So with add a doubt, their backs are against the wall with missing some key guy tonight, but they will be out and competitive to compete, especially at home in the altitude.

Marcus the the interesting thing going back to Zach Stephan is the fact that they're now having to turn to a backup keeper, a young goalkeeper and one that Andrew Thomas has gotten time for the Sounders, and he's gotten starts, and he's got an experience and if you need to throw him in, there not a problem. Different situation here

Well, it just shows how deep our squad is, right, and the strength of our squad. And it is difficult though, Right, you got a young keeper, and but you know, sometimes young keepers don't know what they're getting themselves into, right without that experience, And so you know, they're training with the first team all the time, so you know they're getting that reps and I don't know a whole lot about them, so we'll just have to wait and see. But you know, sometimes these kids are you know, they

I like that idea.

You just put them as much on the pressure as possible. I mean, Zach Stefan was number one in MLS with thirty eight saves, number one in MLS with one hundred and five long pass because he's very good passing the ball as well, number three in MLS with three clean sheets. So not having him there is a big, big loss. Sounders are catching him at the right time. Meanwhile, James Riley, we have Josh Atensio on the other side, a guy who was acquired by Colorado for a pretty hefty price

He really has.

I always liked the Tensio, I mean, and watched him come up and continue to play and get minutes, you know, with the group, and so I think An interesting story that coach Smetzer told today was that Atensio met the group last night at the hotel for their late team snack. So he's still very beloved and adored and respected by the group. Was able to hang out with the group and play a little few card games and have a snack. But without a doubt, sometimes a new environment is great.

It's interesting to think of a player, you know, on the opposing team coming to your hotel the night before a game and like, you know, just butting up. I know he's a former player, but still kind of butting up and stuff. It makes me wonder if there's a in this room. Any stories of night before games visiting, not only with the other team, but just any stories that you can share, James Marcus or that you want to share with the potential people listening.

Yeah, night before a game.

Yeah, you usually have guys that you know from the other team will meet you at the hotel.

Stories that you shouldn't share.

I don't have any of those at the moment.

None that you can No, I hear it jumps.

Yeah, I do have a story there we go when I met when I first my first day at Fulham, I met the captain and he goes, okay, you know I'm here. You're here to press Mike Taylor and you know, push him for a spot.

Great.

He goes, okay, you married? I go yeah, married kids. He goes, okay, do you like to drink? And I'm like yeah, I'm like have a beer like barbecues. I'm like s great. He goes, do you cheat on your wife? And I went no, and he goes okay, And I went did I just uninvite myself.

To have the parties?

And he just smiled and looked back at me and well, I'm going on thirty years, but I don't have any great stories from England.

So oh, that's a good story.

Speaking of stories, in the break, James, you were telling a story and I told you to stop saving for the year, go ahead and start over with as it relates to you both being part of the Colorad Rabbids and you being a form part of the Colorado Rappids.

Certainly.

So, I'm born and raised in Colorado Spring, so that's the first thing. But and growing up was a Colorado Rapids fan. I remember going to the inaugural game of the Rapids as a bright eyed I don't know, ten year old, twelve year old, and I remember one of the games I was able to meet Marcus Hannon and I saw him at a bar chugging a beer after a game. I think he had just won a penalty shootout.

But no, it was good.

So that was a that's my story for Colorado. So certainly, you know, experience at all chairis but it was it was awesome to be part of that.

Marcus, do you always show ten years had a chuck beer?

Yeah, sometimes he was fourteen, so that's that's legal in some countries. So but yeah, it was great. We had always had these great after parties and they were at

That's fantastic.

Turning the attention back to the Colorado Rapids of today, should probably go.

Over the names you're going to be hearing a little bit, just for a moment.

Raphael and the Borrow five goals this year, tied for third in Major League Soccer. For that also has an XG of six point three to three that ranks fifth in MLS. Georgia Mihailovich seven goal contributions that's tied for second in MLS this year. Also three penalty kicks that's the most in the league.

I all see.

Obviously, still have to worry about Cole bass At a good midfielder. Kevin Cabrawl no goals so far this year, but seven appearances. Reggie Cannon former United States men's national team right back. Keegan Rosenberry also a good player on the wing as well. So a few of the names you're going to be hearing from. Danny Jackson and Kellen Rowe throughout the night. We'll take a break here in

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Before we continue this specific talk about this game, some interesting news wanted to pass along, as there is a new sports psychologist in the building for the Seattle Sounders, and as Stephen Lenhart, who many Sounder fans probably are saying, oh, I remember that name. Played for nearly a decade in Major League Soccer with Columbus Crew and for many fans

Part of the staff critical. I think it's a great move by the Sounders. I think any type of sports psychologist's mental performance coach is critical. You're tentially trying to get high performance out of your players and help them become secure and balanced and dealing with being in and out of the lineup, you know, having them focus on

It's interesting when you bring in one of these outside people. You know, psychology is massive for players, right, and you think about you know, goal setting and all these different things, and they can put it in a framework that makes sense, right, so and you know, what are our goals? And I remember the most successful team I was on with Redding, right, we had these sports psychologists and guys were like, this

Right.

Everybody has to be kind of in involved and want to move forward.

Yeah, well, hopefully they all move forward together. And he is now part of the staff and for a lot of Sounder fans watching him play as a kind of I don't know, the way you described was good with good James, and as a fan I always hated watching him play against our team.

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Seven minutes from kickoff down in Commerce City, Colorado, Today's Countdowt and a kickoff presented by Emerald Queen Casino, the entertainment capital of the Northwest. Wrapping up the pre match show here, we'll let Sounder fans know that you can down on the McDonald up today and when the Sounders win, you'll win a Freemik Chick in the following day with a minimum two dollars purchase exclusively in the app. Let's get to some players to watch in Keys to the Match,

My player watched this, hey, sus Ferrara. Thought he's been in good form and he's a fantastic player. So it can produce goals and sets up players very well. So I think his experience will be key tonight.

And play and Keys to the Match for you, James.

For me, quick start tested goalkeeper early goalkeeper shots, crosses, get end product in possession like.

That, succinct tight, good Marcus player to watch Keys the Match.

Let's cat all that stuff.

Christian roll Dan, we got to have that experience in the middle obviously the back five or four tonight right with the center backs and defensively, but in Colorado we got to keep it at nail right, Christian rolld End's gonna need to organize kind of in that middle of the park there and kind of keep everybody on on form. Uh So we can because if you're chasing it in Colorado. It's not going to happen, right. We need to keep it at zero as long as possible and get a goal on that front.

I'll go kim keyhe because he's now has that starting spot. Apparently Jonathan Bell is still there, you know, kind of depth competition, right, continue to see good performances for him to keep that spot.

And I agree, you know, test test the keeper.

Right, it's a young new keeper in there for Colorado, Nozach Stephan. Lots of shots, lots of crosses. Let's see if we can get one early and make it a role like we've seen the last two weeks. As the Sounders look to go three straight wins Dallas, Nashville, hopefully now tonight in Colorado, Danny Jackson, Kelen Row, they will have the call for Sounders at Rapids. It starts next on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.

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Good Evening from Dick Sports and Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado for this Western Conference matchup between your Sounders and the Colorado Rapids. With seven points from the last four games, Colorado are pushing themselves up the table and currently sit in fifth position coming into this weekend's games. Playing at altitude is never an easy proposition for visiting teams, and

To show it.

My name is Danny Jackson alongside former sound under Kellen Roe here in the booth. Before he gets to Kellen for his initial thoughts, let's get you the delta starting eleven for your Sounders and as mentioned in pregame, no real changes for Brian Schmetze coming to this game.

Stefan Freyn gole the back three of Yema kim Key.

He keeps there with Jackson Reagan on the sidelines with injury knew Who on the left, Kilaney Coosirienzi on the right hand side, Paul rothrock goalscorer last week on the left, and then Christian rolled on and obed in the middle and attacking three of Pedro de la Vega, Jesus Ferrera, and then the two goal man from the last two weeks, Danny Musoski.

For Chris Armas and his Colorado team, we're going to have some new players added to the lineup.

Nico Hansen starts in goal with the missing Bowdery and Zach Stephen due to suspension. And for Nico Hanson, he has not played in MLS, so this is his debuts.

He'll start in goal. Reggie Cannon starts on the right hand side.

Two center back says Awadziam and Masu and then Jackson Travis gets his first start in first game in twenty twenty five. He'll play on the left. Oliver Lauras and Josh attend to play in the center. Mihailovich and Bassett sit in front of him, and then it's Darren Yeppie, Anna.

Rafael Navajo playing up front. So teams get ready to go.

Here.

Sounders in their anniversary kit, green shirts, blue shorts and they're attacking the goal as we look at it from now that Navajo is on his knees getting a quick little message high above, attacking to the goal to our left with the Sounders, and then in their all burgundy kit are Colorado Rapids attacking the goal to our right. So as a team get ready to go, Colorado will get.

Us going, Kellen, your first thoughts on the game and how the Sounders get their third.

Win on the truck.

I like that Brian Smetzer is giving this lineup another runout look. They played very well the past few weeks. Kim keyhy sliding in as well.

But I like that they're going to have some goals.

All goes along flicked forward, not picked up by Colorado as he knew. Who takes his first parts Ive touches forward down this left hand side, near side the left, try to rip it down the line cut out well by Cannon, picked up middle of the park by Mihailovich and Navao. Try to wriggle free of yea, my easy said than done. Yemar just gets his pocket pitch just a little bit of oho, got a toe in front,

I like it, Damis Aski's on fire. He's two goals and two games. And when he comes to forward, their goals come in street. When you have a confident forward, you want to ride it until it ends. And so Danny Missovski looking for that other goal as well. When you see this Sounders team going into Colorado, it's not an easy place to play, you know, Dick Sporting Good Park.

Hold that possession. As Brian Smetra says, anywhere between fifty five and sixty five percent possession is always going to be good, and the Sounders want that high today.

Collision on yamo as went up for the header, he hit it out of bounds on the far side, went down. Looks like he's holding his chest, gets pulled up by there's my Fido bitch that pulled him up. Lavarjo just standing by. It was a collision between Navajo and yamo I was having a quick word. The young DP player came in on loan from Palm Maris, then signed full time last June to.

A permanent DP contract.

Has proven his worth fifteen goals in twenty twenty four, five goals already on his campaign so far. When you add that the full goals in Mahailovich, that tendem is a good one two punch for Colorado and Chris Omas As Reggie Kennon back from injury, knocks the ball down the line picked up by the.

Sounders and kim Key.

He So we talked about Josha Tensu in pregame. Josh was interviewed by the Colorado media ahead of this game said, he's super excited to let's get back in and play against the teammates, who, of course he played.

Against hi day and day out, but a little bit different in an environment like this.

It's a little bit different. And look, Josh Atencio is a Seattle Kip Bellevue kid. He wants to He wanted to play for the Seattle Sounders and he got that opportunity.

And when I tell you that playing for.

Your hometown team, playing in front of your friends and family is one of the best things that could happen. But his his new career here in Colorado has just rejuvenated himself and he's played every game he's you can see that he is fit, he's ready to go, and these games are going to be emotional. I I've played

I'd love to see the little matchups between him and Oben.

And you mentioned it before he got on airs just managing your emotions right. You're going to be fired up. You want to make a good impression.

Not just to the home fans, but also of course to your former teammates, former coaching staff that maybe they shouldn't.

Have let you go.

But for him, it's been pastures have been greener coming to Colorado with Danny Labor of course, played here nineteen games on loan just.

A couple of years ago. Came back.

Well, we think it's very different player, a lot more confidence, got that MLS experience and Notensio now is going to get a good run of games moving forward. Colorado have it with Lauraz picks it up, it'll turn out Oppression knocks it forward to Navajo, yappy in front of him. The young man made his debut at sixteen years old US men's national team youth player. There's a little run out in this four to two block that New York Red Bulls have been known for. US Mahalovich turns the corner.

We talk about the youthfulness of Colorado and we have some as well in the Sounders, but the youthfulness of Colorado and then the experience that they have built into that as well. I mean a young guy like col Bassett, but also has played for many years, Mahalovich now wearing the captain arm band, who has experienced with the national team overseas in the MLS. When you have that experience with the youth and if you can find it correctly, it's positive.

It's gonna be Mihailovich captain for the day.

It's going to be an inswering from Colorado's left hand side and it comes top with the six yard books.

Headed down off the line by rolled On. Brilliant defending by Christian rolled On on that far that near post.

All went to the fast stick. Navajo headed it down and it was rolled on right place, right time, another corner kick.

It's not a positive for the Seattle Sounders.

At two, not one, but two Colorado players were on top of that ball, free and a free header.

Thankfully, Christian Moldon was on point in that post.

Sounders two clean sheets in the last two games. The Varjo goes down. Referee just getting in the middle. Lexis to Silver comes in, just try to organize things. He's a little bit dramatic. Buy in Navajo.

To look down. Here's Vargas pleading his case.

Just looks a little disorganized from the Seattle Sounders right now in this corner. Something doesn't mean they're very good at is these set pieces, and it looks a little disorganized to start.

Here's Mahilovich again's to be instruing again with his roy foot, same side left comes in top of the sick header again.

This time it's Bassett was inside the six yard box, not challenge well enough. He heads it over. It's gonna be a goal kick.

Sound as remains nil nil, but two really good chances from the corner kick.

And once again it's that almost medium to back post area that they're getting free headers. Colorado Raptors are just getting free headers to find it. Thankfully, this one goes over the bar, so calln bull.

Gets pulled in here.

And it's probably a question for Marcus more so than anything at halftime, but is that's something that Stefan Fry has the ability to come out and maybe put a punch on. Is it just a trajection of the ball just doesn't allow him to get off that line.

The trajectory maybe, but I think what I think I saw is that Colorado actually sat someone right on top of him, and he's now being covered because he has his defenders there. He's got a Colorado player in front of him, so he's kind of relying on his big players to make sure that that Hey, your job is to go win the ball, and my job is to going to say some.

Kind of zoning in the backstick left.

Paul Rothrock note of the tallest player of the Sound is inside the sixth challenging that head of Ike Bassett as the ball gets cleared by kim Key. He Sound is standing some early pressure from Colorado, But as Jackson Felts mentioned, there's a strong enough starting eleven on the

We talked about the depth of the Sounders and it's gonna be a positive, especially coming into later parts of the season. But if you can run out this team right now that Brian Spencer has put out who's now been two weeks and played great performances, can you continue to give these guys confidence, get the the quote unquote starters back to their fitness. That's a positive because then you have a full roster, not just on the field, but on the bench as well going into the later

Ball fifteen yards or so from this corner flag on this near site Sounds attaching the goal to a left picked up by Colorado down the line.

It goes Yam in good position to clean things up.

As Navajo just trots across the halfway line. Yamar just slows the game down. Sounders tried to get a foothold. Sounders coming to this game were about fifty five percent possession on the season so far, sitting in fourth in MLS. Colorado very different prospect, barely hitting forty four percent.

Coming into today's game.

They sit in the very bottom end of the statistics chart for MLS in terms of possession. But it's been a good run of games for Colorado, especially at home. Last two home games have come away with wins against really good teams Charlotte and San Diego, two teams and Sounders.

Have already faced this season.

One being the opening home opener and opening game the season with Charlotte to two tie.

As the ball goes in quickly to Masovsky just puts it behind Rothrock. Maybe rothrot went a little early on that run.

Ball goes behind him over this near sideline for a throw in for Colorado.

That's a little bit of a miscommunication there.

I was Paul Rothrock running a little bit, you know, down the line, while Masovski thought he was going for feet.

But it's it's gonna be a good game.

So Nico Henson twenty three years old MLS debut today and remind everybody. Zach Stephan after conceding goal the ninety sixth minute, the last minute of the game, he got two yellow car to the end of the game.

Suspended for dissent for today's game.

Of course, US men's national team player, former men's city goalkeeper.

He's had a really good start to his twenty twenty five.

Campaigns had to be solid because Colorado have conceded well over.

Four saves per game for Zach Stefan.

Stefan from two point four saves per game, so Sounders, even the giving up a couple of soft goals throughout the course of this season, have looked extremely solid in these past few games and back to their MLS defensive best that they hit in both twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four.

We're talking about rejuvenation in a career, and that's Zach Stefan right coming back here to Colorado, coming back to the MLS and going to Colorado and find his feet again and finding his chance with the national team again. He's he's really growing back into that goalkeeper of all that we all knew and really enjoyed watching.

Picked up on the left hand side of Navarre chasing down a ball from Travis. He gets it far touch line, the approaches the eighteen yard box, Clone standing him up left corner of the box, tries to clip it in and headed away by yam Are. Good defending by the Sounders, standing strong as Colorado continued to come here as Travis came on from offside position. The left back advanced trying

But we talked about Stefan's Fry's performances last week against Nashville.

If he wasn't for farreer At getting his assists and this team winning three to nil, I mean his saves in the first half and second half really kept the Sounders in pole position in that game, and in any other game, he would have got mant of the match as well.

Absolutely, And look, this is this is because you know, Brian Smester said, we're almost used to now step and Fry making these incredible saves, and they aren't to us as fans and players and the.

Seattle Sounders organization, They're not these incredible saves. They're Seph and Fry saves and it's almost a little bit different. And so to give credit where credit is due, is you know, at thirty nine years old, he's he's probably having some of his best saves and on top of his his prime at the moment, and so it's it's

Seattle Sounders, Well, it comes for can the Sounders find a way through?

Here?

Plays the ball in Sounders.

Having to chase, puff and puff a little bit. In these first twelve minutes or so, thirty.

Percent possession for the Sounders is tick towards seventy percent.

It's been a really good start by the home team. Altitude, of course plays a factor.

Well, as you talk about that percentage earlier on in say to Colorado forty four percent. As I get my memory back and what I was gonna say, it makes me think that it's going to be a kind of a fast game from Colorado.

They're gonna look to break.

They don't care about having the ball as much, but they want to get forward and they're gonna be ability to score goals. And that's not a positive for the Sounders because they are.

Not ones to be very good on transition.

They do have some holes, especially when players went out of a position that does happen a lot. And you're at altitude where Colorado is very normal in this and Seattle is not.

Yeah, funding a second wind is a real thing.

It looks like the third or fourth win in Colorado.

Yep, Colorado ourself course plays at altitude as well.

So Sounders have already made that trick.

It's that true that being successful at Colorado and AGAs Colorado throughout the throughout MLS since two thousand and nine of the Sounders have continued to find success. Colorado, of course. In twenty twenty three was the home opener at lumen Field where John Morris got a couple of goals in a four nil win. Or gets launched log, headed down by new picked up and chested down by Roth Rockers. He tumbles over, but the board finds Farrera on this near side the left is floating.

Around trying to find pockets of space.

Four assists on his season already, and he had a couple from CCC as well, so six assists in all comps already this season. As he finds his feet in his new home here in the Pacific Northwest, It's talk.

About a silent killer in Jesus.

He always finds a way to get the get in front of goals and and find a way to set someone up very nicely.

Yep, he's past the ninety goal contribution mark last week. Second youngest player to hit that mark to new who gives away a free kick would be Colorado possession Oh slash for New Looks reason it would be a clean tackle twenty years ago my day.

But you've got two feet and it would have been a clean tackle for you.

About it in your day exactly, it was always having nibble for the first five ten minutes and no fell given and let's carry on.

Make you mark.

I think I've found a few of my marks still from when I first started.

In the league.

It's a very different game now, you know. I mean it's like the NFL obviously protecting the quarterback. It's become a different game as well in terms of how you tackle and.

Things like that.

A lot of good comes out of that as well, of course, but nonetheless it's and throughout the world. Really the game of soccer's change, but it certain allows the players, like the Messes of the world, you know, the ability to perform at the level they can.

I mean is remember back in the day with the likes of Pele and Maradonna.

I mean, I still look back and think how incredible was they played with such a high level of the quality of the fields or the lack of quality of the fields, and the way that the games were refed then, and they could just kick lumps out of each other, and those players still performed at such an amazing level.

It's great for a fan, don't get me wrong.

As the Sounders kind of played out of there all done by Kim Keyhey here as they've kind of build out of the back here.

Look, it's a little bit different. We love from the fans aspect.

You get to see some great players like Messi, like Bernaldo get protected and get to play for longer periods of time.

But man, you learn some lessons.

It comes Clonie down the right handside, good break by the sounds and transition tries to find the ball between goalkeeper and back line and young Niko Hanson first meaningful contribution to the game as the young goalkeeper making.

His MLSW comes out wins the ball.

There's a good transition of de la Vega turned the corner, played the ball down to Colonel. He was a willing runner in this three back system and.

Its good early ball. As we.

What could have replayed down on our screen, basket go pulled back forever just holding it play not about failed to give.

When you think about that play as it started from the back and now it was a little bit nervy kim Key. He found a way to get the pall to know who who played a good.

One too with Christian Roldan.

But once it got out of that Pedro de la Vega found a good gap and you see Colony running down that sideline. So it's a good start for the Sounders. Can they continue that, maybe not the bobbling in the back, but they can continue starting from the back and making their way well.

Tonight's match is presented by the Western Washington Toyota Dealers. We get here in the seventeenth minute Neil Norwichien, Colorado and the Sounders. The ball gets played in behind Ceph and Fry comes out collects the ball.

Well.

He rolls the ball out to this near signs Paul Rothrock, who mentioned got a goal last week.

He's had a really good start.

It was.

It's some of a stop starting to his season relative to quality and level of performance, but the only Sounded to have started all the games this season. A lot of that's to do with the rotation that the Sounders had between conkerkef Play and Mls. But he's proving himself again Kellen this season to be an incredibly effective play on that left hand side. Two goals to assists on his campaign.

We talk about a guy with confidence coming off last season where he was in my opinion the MVPU that the second half of the season he was that glue that kind of brought in the big players with the guys who were going to work hard off the bench, and I think he was that perfect player for the Seattle Sounders last year.

Can he continue that?

Injuries didn't happen well for him over the offseason and the beginning of the year, But now you find Paul Rothrock having his time again.

It comes to La Vegas towards the end line.

He goes ball, bounces to Ferrara get a chance twelve yards gide it over the top. That was a wonderful opportunity to get his first goal.

For the sound as he shakes his head in disappointment as the bull came in from Dela Vega. It was a little scuffed. It was a back heel by Masovski.

Found the foot of Ferrera wide open, twelve yards out dead Censa skies it over the top.

It's one of the cases if you have too much time to think about it, and he did. There was no one around him.

He's at the penalty spot, right in the middle of the goal and unfortunately, you know, put it over the top. It was bobbling on him. But he just had too much time for It's gonna be his first goal. He just needs to find a way to not think about it and just put.

It in the back of the net.

They just need a goal off your Backsid, It doesn't matter how it comes from. Just need to get that monkey off his back.

He's a learned from Danny Massovski. Except it did whatever. Hope it gets right place, right time.

Yeah, right place, right towns no matter how clearance buying the Colorado back line on this near side, quickly thrown in by Rothrock Neil Neil nineteenth minute here in Colorado, Sounders starting to find themselves back into the game as Lorez picks it off Ferrera just outside his eighteen yard box, turns out of pressure, is able to roll it from center to the far side the left to young Scott because he rolls down comes back to Larrez, so stow, I haven't seen much of just Tencio so far.

As we approach a twenty minute mark.

It's a good thing for the Sounders, Like you're hoping that Josh Atenzio doesn't light up, because when you have these kind of games, it's it's one of those emotional games that can be high or low, and you're hoping, we want Josted to play well, but we're hoping if not a high.

Yeah.

Brian talked about how Josh Vizzits did the team yesterday for the team snack in the evening, played some cards with his old teammates.

Everyone was happy to see him.

It's an interesting thing the world of sports, where one minute you're sitting next to.

A player in a locker room and you've been there before. I've been there before. When suddenly you know, within a day you're in a completely different place.

It's pretty incredible.

And look when there's there's that old saying that once you step across that line, you're no longer friends, and that is that is true for every sport about a spoka is, especially soccer.

You'll see it just Tinsil will turn it off.

That's gonna be a yellow card, and I think it's a Masofski. That's the second time in three games. I remember Massofski getting a silly yellow card for kicking the ball away as well. It was a couple of weeks ago, and again just as a foul, innocuous fowl.

And then he kicks the.

Ball away against the side hoardings and the referee is having none of that gives him the yellow card.

And again just those are the things that Brian Schmitz will shake his head on because Musovski has performed so well in the last couple of weeks.

Don't exactly what Brian has w wanted. Things like that put him now into the gun twenty minutes on a yellow cart.

We're talking about emotions with Josh Atensio, but it comes with every player.

You got to keep your.

Emotions, and especially a guy like Danimus Afti who's getting another chance to stay in front of the lead and goal scorer of Seattle Sounders who's coming back from fitness.

Don't give the coach.

Any option or any opportunity to take you off. And that's one reason right there that you said. Brian Smester's shaking his head going you're giving it.

You make it too easy for me.

Well sound as FC Soker is presented by Provident, Swedish official healthcare partner of Sounders FC nil nil here in Colorado mentioned tough place to play with the altitude Sounders just finding their feet, getting their.

Second, third or fourth wind.

It's been the first twenty minutes dominated by Colorado. One shot on target in the game so far came from Colorado. Came from the corner kick from Navajo cleared off the.

Line by Christian rolled On.

It's another important play by Christiania's such an effect tip game last week.

Just nicking the ball in vital areas in the attacking half of the field. As Kilane just.

Chases down Jackson Travis, He's trying to turn the corner. Good defending by Kilani as the man rolled on.

Does pick it up, comes off.

Lorez came across the defense far Syd The Sounder is right, it's gonna be a throwing.

As you see the Colorado plays kind of come to fruition.

You're seeing a lot of longer balls and then second balls getting one. Can the Sounders like an Ovid Vargas a Christian Roaldon, can they make sure to find that gap where if your center back is winning the ball, you're finding the second ball and you can continue to keep possession because if not, Colorado's got two or three guys on them.

Eleavega turning out a pressure, well, he's done that so effectively as coming back from injury last week. He was able to absorb pressure a couple of different times important times, won some fouls deep in the Sounders defensive half of the field, and I asked Sean Henderson yesterday is them R guess.

His pocket picked? It comes Cole Bassett slides it's the post as Jemo just.

Puts his arms up and his hands to apologize to his teammates.

His pocket was picked in a incredibly difficult place, no real support from behind. Bassett picked it up, drove into the eighteen yard box, hit the side of the post, goes out for a goal kick for the Sounders and they get to breathe again.

It's a bit sloppy from ye Mar. He didn't have much help on that right side.

But he's got to know that there's there's pressure coming from the left, there was pressure coming from the middle. He's got to get it off his feet a little quicker. He is the last guy and so you see the chance there from Cole Bassett.

Just unfortunate. I'm hoping that Steff knew where his post was, but just it nicks the outside of the post.

That's another warning signal to the Seattle Sounders. Hey, you gotta make sure you're on top of your stuff.

Yeap.

Cole Bassett from twenty twenty four nine goal, seven assists, one on one this year, being an ever present in Colorado for last number of years.

Youngest signing in.

Colorado history from two thousand and eight is a homegrown at seventeen years old. Let's spent some time in Europe, but fine, ord Well coming back really establishing himself as a regular.

As Yamar crunches.

Through on col Bassett, maybe it's a little bit of revenge after he's got his pocket picked on the halfway then not a bad place to give up a found no yellow card.

That one's tough for defenders, and most defenders watching that going well, Yamar said it look I got all the ball, and then he continued into me.

You know it's a tough one for referees. I can see how it's called. But I know all the defenders watching that play right there are going it's not a foul momentum.

How you're supposed to stop yourself. It's like these three hundred and fifty pounds linemen getting hitting the quarterback and they're running full speed. How they're supposed to stop.

So he ran into physics here exactly it comes col Bassett just miss a chance, just a moment or so ago, just spins past Colonia. But Colonie is a good job coming back, drops on into his right foot and the left hand side. It goes inside the box to Nevau back to call Bassett top of the box. Good step by barath rog gets a toe in front of it and just clears his lines.

Goes down this near.

Side, right in front of Chris Armas as he tries to motion his team and his organization of his block system in the midfield.

Baul goes in worn by Kimki evantage given by the referee.

It was yappy.

You got foul by Kim Colorado retained possession. Mahailovich ball goes into Yappi. He's able to play back to Mahilo his top of the box played events. I knew who was a aggressive foul or challenged by Jemar. Again, referee gave an advantage. You almost scooted through but cleared by the Sounders. Back in play and Colorado half possession.

You talk about half chances and look, the Seattle Sounders are a little bit under pressure. It's gonna happen, especially away games in a place like Colorado, and Colorado team who's up for.

The game at the moment.

But you got to make sure that you get the clearances that are corrected at the moment that's happening.

DeMar get a little erratic time, slices the ball and he finds the foot of Mahilovich top of the box, rolls it to Reggie kennon this right hand side in support, b to Lauras, rips it in towards the backstick, can't reach Navar bounces through goal kick Sounders here in the twenty fifth minute, Colorado nil, Sounds nil Killimber.

I'm gonna talk about these kind of games away altitude. We're gonna continue to.

Say it, but you've got to make sure that the little things are done correctly. I used to tell my players, you got to have the two steps, whether it be two steps to get space for yourself or two steps two steps when your player has the ball so you can get a little bit closer and not make it as easy. I mean, Lauras there had acres of space to just play a ball inside the box and thankfully

Two games last year against Colorado.

Last game was towards of the season, beginning of October, one nil win here in Colorado, and then there was a one to one tiet Lumen back in the first handful of weeks of the twenty twenty four season ral Ruy Diaz goal in that first half. Sounders a dick

Of course, it was a rampant first half. Last week against Nashville, Dela Vega roth Rock of course were the second and third goal.

These games were always fun for me because it was it was almost a mental battle, right you were tired, you were away.

For me when I was in New England, it was a long flight.

It was it was a fun time for me because I got to use my brain more than my legs and then I just pushed my legs.

As far as I could go.

Sounds again defending here Yepp he has it center the park, goes out to the far side the left of Cole Bassett drops on his right foot, good defending by Kilany back comes Dela Vega Schmetzer. Well like that as Massa's he gets fouled into. It's to be a little bit carefully. Just lashed out for a second to young Jackson Travis. It's on a yellow coln of course is Musovski and you gotta think Kellen as we look down on this on the screen to see the foul it was Massosk

A little bit unlucky.

I think he did really well to put his body in the way make sure that Travis fouled him.

But we talked about it earlier.

With that yellow card, he's giving Brent Schenzer an easy out to get him off a little earlier.

Yeapnvar has it far side the left, able to pick the ball up off Ye Mars, He just shadows him out back to the Lauraz It goes drops it back to josh A Tensia.

Its like the game.

Has bypassed the middle of the park little bit. Vargas hasn't been too involved, of course. Last week for the second goal, he was able to receive a ball drive towards the end line, cut the ball back. In his interview this past week, the team maybe was after the game, media asks, you know, where do you get that from?

Did you see that run from Delaveago? And he said, nope, my dad told me and I was a young kid. Get to the end line, you cut the ball back, no smart father.

And he was right on the toe of Dela Vega, and he roofed the ball into the top of the goal for his first goal in twenty twenty five, rewarding his good player the last couple of weeks. But here comes Colorado trying to find the opening goal here given away by Yama again sloppy by the Sounders in possession.

There's a disconnect between that back line of three or five and then the midfield, and that's where that ball came in.

Here.

Yappy had a good little header, but there was too much space for Navarado to come pick up the ball again and find Yappy out wide for him to do some creative things. But it's to be a little bit more connected. Can you shrink the field defensively and then open up when it's attacking?

Is it the formation that armis is playing with these kind of compact midfield players.

They're overloading the midfield.

Is it?

The Sounders need to maybe shift slightly in terms of how they set up to try and add another play in the midfield.

I think I think Jesus Ferrara and Dala Beaga can tuck in a little bit more instead of saying so far wide. Let let Paul Rothrock run that line. Let let Kilany run that line.

Here's Laura's towards the endline.

Ball from Mahailevitch back in supports Mahilovitch gets it back closed down by Rothrock. On this near side the Sounders left Colorado's right all inside to Lauras picked up again by mahai Levitch drives forward top of the box, he goes outside the right foot, he goes to Maxu advanced from his center back position, wins the corner kick. If you tick right past the thirty minute mark, good pressure by Colorado sound is standing strong, Colorado knocking on the door.

When you have a center back that's inside the box making a cross, you know that the Sounders haven't been able to get out of their half in a while because you don't bind those plays in those games, and so when they're giving this and continuous pressure and pressure and pressure, they've got to find a way to just connect the first pass, connect the second pass, because then you can slow down and the game becomes a little easier.

Another corner kick for Colorado, of course, they were dangerous to one short target came from a corner kick in the head of Navajo, cleared off the line by rolled On. This time it's on the Colorado right hand side. Fans are on their feet, full house today. Ball hops back in by Masu. Shoud be an over keep by Navajo, no foul give him by the referee, headed clear by the sound is not back in and again cushion headed this time by Vargas.

Good play for the Sounds, nice and composed.

Out of pressure. As Farrero gets bats it into there's the fowls. The Sounders staff stand up on their feet asking for a free kick. Ferrera saw it coming. Reggie Cannon pulls him up. It's gonna be a free kick for the Sounder is on their left hand side.

A little bit better there, Look, get the ball out of the box. It's good defending on the corner kick on that time, and then of course ob Vargas with a little bit of talent there making sure to cush the headers that.

Way we can keep the ball. And that was a great little run from Frerey. He saw the contact come and knew that it could complete the pass and get the.

Fount Sounders just absorbing some pressure here. Just take this thing out the game. They are doing that. See Sounder is doing thing formation wise as we just talked about.

Of course, four two three one has been Brian's preferred formation over the years, spread so much success. Of course, because almost talked about the envy that he has somewhat of the Sounders' perennial success. Winning mentality as the ball gets cleared is gonna skip over the end line.

We'll talk about that winning mentality, and that's what these guys need to have and in these tough places, and you've been in these games before.

This is not going to be a great, pretty soccer game.

This is going to be a battle, and so are these guys going to have that character to go out and battle and make sure that they you know, Marcus talked about it in the pregame. It's got to be a zero, right, You've got to have a shout out here because it is a hard place to play.

Can you have that battle?

Can you nick a goal here? This is inadvertent clearance by kim Key. He nicked off the toe of Bassett run over the end line. Now it's going to be a corner kick for the Sounders on their.

Left hand side. This near side the left Sounders attacking the goal to our left in swinger by Ferrera towards the backsticket goes headed down by kim Ky. He he climbed. It was all over or Cm.

It's gonna be a free kick for the Colorado Rapids inside their eighteen yard bucks see get inside of fifteen minutes left of this first half. Don't leave us at half time, Jackson, Marcus James. We're back to break everything down. Look at a slight Replaysofski asking for handball, but the fouls already given. And you gotta think Kellen, with such a young goalkeeper, the message must have been here. Let's

Young goalkeeper and make him feel uncomfortable.

Absolutely, it's a young girl. Keep your first game. He's out for a Stephan like it's it's got to be. And what's what's great about the Sounders is the past few games they've shot from.

Distance and created something from it.

But you haven't seen that because we haven't got a foothold of the game yet, so there hasn't been a chance for someone to take that shot. Obviously Hazus Ferira having that chance at the six, at the penalty spot and roofing it.

But they've got to find a way to get that ball down there and just just create a shot.

That corner kick there, I'd rather have it, and instead of being far post, I'd rather have it right on top of the goalie.

Make it, you know, make it fearful of what's gonna happen. Hey, welcome to the league kind of thing.

Yep, yeah, put it right on that, just like Colorado did it for their freak, their corner kicks.

Put run in the six shot books. Vargas has it now, reverse ball.

Great ball into Rothrock inside the box, he goes left foot, strikes it fumbled saved by hands, and just as we talked about it was a rebound for Massovski. Right plays, right time, put it wide, it's gonna be a goal kick.

It was a chance for the sound as well, built up.

By Vargas, eventually not wind by Missovski on the rebund only shot from Rothrock.

There's just a little bit of gainsmanship there as Hazu's Ferrera thought, Okay, I might be offside here.

I'm just gonna let it go.

Paul Rothrock continuing to make his runs down the line as he's kind of limping away from that one a little bit because that one hurt. But it was a good play and once again we talked about it, Dana Massowski, right place, right.

Time, a poacher's goal, that would have been. He just couldn't get his feet right.

Yeah, clumsy saved by Henson. It's exactly what we were mentioning just a moment or so ago. His test a goalkeeper see what he's got.

And that was a some of us scuff shot by Rothrock on his left foot, seemed to comfortable save by for hands. Somebody fumbled it to the foot of Massovsky, couldn't rebound it on target as yet he comes in on newho and see it's the free kick as he backs into the referee and rolled on. Clumsy more than any thing is. We look at our replayed on our screen.

That's now two plays that the Seattle Sanders have been inside the box and can't find the back of the net. These are the games, the away games that are hard and tough, that you gotta find a way to finish those chances.

That what great teams can do.

So if they do get these chances again, they've got to have that little bit of composure, that a little bit of quality to make sure that these goals in the back of the neck.

Yeah.

Masoski's goal against Dallas, of course, was from a shot from dela Vega that hit the post right place, right time, knocked.

It into the empty net. It wasn't the extremely easy chance kind of flash towards him. He is able to play a ball in and here comes Masoski over the top.

He goes isn't able to shrug off Awassum, who clears his lines. Wossium's asking him for a foul as Ferrera backs into Bassett. Sound has come away that but Loraz now shrugs off Vargas picked up well by Dela Vega. That's something he's brought into his game, his ability to scrap for the ball as he picks it up center the park now just rolls it back to Yemar Sounders. In these final ten minutes of the first half, can they find a way through into the locker room?

One goal up?

Isn't it great having two attacking players that are willing to do the pressing, do the work hard made the drop back if they lose the ball and win.

That ball again, and de la Vega and Ferrara have.

Been doing that.

It comes Nava finds it of space, rolls it out to this near sight to yappy overlapping run now by Bassett. Here he is an eighteen yard box good defending by Kim Kee back on his feet.

Both clips of the back stick up goes combination Navajo and Bassat and strikes by Colorado. I think it was a Tensio slash it over the top. It's going to be a goal kick for the Sounders.

So he get into the final ten minutes of this first half, Colorado nil.

Sounders nil.

Started with winning the second ball once again, and then Colorado broke and then broke really fast with Yappy and then Bassett running around as well. They've got to make sure they clean up those little things and win that second ball.

Well.

Josh Attensio's eyes were wide open. Then he just saw it from eighteen yards. It came back to him from the eighteen yard box and he slashed it over the top and all of a sudden, the Sounders are able to breathe a sigh of relief as Jema has it knocks it down the line picked up by Massovski. That a pressure pulled down by young Jackson. That's gonna be a yellow card. Easy yellow card. Referee gives the foul.

Sounders on their right hand side, just inside their half of the field.

The Sounders maybe a chance to put it into the box we'll see if the big men go up, or a chance to take a breather.

Which is good play for Masafki using his body making sure he finds it. He keeps his emotion that time. There's no kick out and that's exactly what we needed.

And there's a confirmation from the the tannoy that Jackson Tram has got the yellow card. As the Sounders have the throwing on the fast side, the Sounders right with young Kulan a steady eddie. So far in these first thirty eight minutes of the game, nil nil Colorado Sounders in Commerce City, Colorado, ninety three point three KGr FM. Frere has it, rolls it out to this near side to rot or left hand side, ten yards from the

I always screaming now on the inside as well.

It was he was lining it up, but I don't think anyone actually believed he was gonna shoot it. Maybe knew who did, but I think everyone there thought, all right, let's honestly, I'd let him.

Well.

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As the ball goes from Vargas Center to fartside, the right to Klaney whips it in towards the backstick, tipped over by Hanson. There was an inadvertent shot on goal as Klane just shakes his head little Ronny smile, but Hanson, to be on his toes, had to tip it up. It's gonna be corner kicked for the Sounders.

Talking about testing the keeper here and now there was a shrass as we call it a shot cross. But what I loved about that play is that dala Vega made an incredible darting run into open up that space for Kilane and I think ovid Vargas may have just missed that run because he was wide open going through. But what a ball into Kilane way to create space, and then he followed his run into that box and that's what created the cross.

It's gonna be a corner kick for the Sounders on this near side. The Sounders left in swinger with Farrera's could be the second corner kick of the game for the Sounders that could make their runs. Just backstick it goes and again a little disappointing. Why not test the goalkeeper put it on the six yard books he was drilled to the far side that.

Looked as if it was a little bit miscommunication because I think he was looking for someone on that back post the way he drove that ball in rather than kind of bending it towards the goalkeeper.

I think he was looking to find that ball.

And someone on the back post, and I don't think anyone was on the same page as as Hazus.

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As we watch right now, we saw all those those guys come off the bench and go warm up a little bit, and it's just a scary side if you're a Colorado team and you watch, you know, the Jaopolos, the Jordan morris Is, the Albert Rusnaks, the Ryan Kentz, Alex Rowodon's run, you know, walk to the to go warm up for the second half.

I mean, you could take your entire offensive lineup off the field and put will be conceivably stronger group of players on the field arguably.

In the MLS, in a top five in the MLS in that front.

Three, front four even yep, and you think Ferrara top player in MLS over the less empteen numbers of years. Only twenty four years old, it feels like it's been around forever. Of course, dela Vega's funding his feet now. After a injury riddled season last year, a really good preseason, four goals in preseason four Della Vega got niggling injury just a couple of weeks ago.

Now is Beck got his.

First goal of the campaign MLS campaign last week against Nashville.

But what I love about de la Vega is he knew he needed to work hard in the preseason and he continued to do so. And this little niggling injury isn't didn't step back at all.

I think he's come in and been fit. He's been good. He's been The quality that he's he's brought proven to have is showing now.

As I mentioned, Sean Henderson said, this is the player that we recruited. We started to see what he was like in Argentina. Of course, I forget these players come from young players coming from Afar. It takes a little while to get bedded into a new culture, new country, new language. Colorada have a top of the box of Mahailovitch closed down by rolled on. It goes to the left hand side to Yappy inside the box overlapping run was supposed to be there for Yappy.

It didn't come. His cutball rolls over the end line. It's going to be a goalkick for the Sounders here in the fourth third minute Colorado nil, Sounders nil. And this score up date is presented by Provident Swedish.

When you talk about players being happy and taking some time, especially foreign players, taking some time to get used to the US, get used to the travel it used to the team that language, and James Riley mentioned in the pre game when you're when your home life is good, you're on field is a little bit better as well, because you're you're mentally in tune at all times, and so you leave your family, you leave a lot of things back at home.

What's comfortable, it's a little harder to get used to.

So we're glad that paged the Vega is feeling like he's at home in Seattle, yep.

Even with forty percent possession in this first half so far for the Sounders. I managed to withstand this pressure from Colorado. We know that Chris Thomas wanted his team to play on the front foot. Some good results as we mentioned at home in recent games, wins against Charlotte, wins against San Diego. Disappointing result last week the ninety sixth minute, last minute of the game that gave up an equalizer to Houston in Houston, which course is never

But Sounders win it now? Can they break?

In transition these final minute or so of the first half, roth Rock has it on this near side the left, cuts back, plays it inside to Vargas, who's closed down by his old buddy Josh Atensio is able to wriggle free from Josh.

I love seeing that little matchup because there was a moment last year where josh Atensio was the guy. He was the center mid long job, following Christian Roldan, and then Ovid Vargas comes in it takes that spot.

So it's fun to see that little thing happen between them.

Or goes in behind. Calane has it towards the endlight and there's my softy third golling.

Three games, right place, right time, and the Sounders find an opening goal in this first off it's Colorado nil.

Sound has won.

Right place, right time. He finds a way.

Yes, we talked about how he didn't keep his emotions. He wasn't sure if he's making it easy on Brian Smitzer. And then he turns around and proves us wrong. Talk about the commentator curse, right, He's proven us wrong every

Of the end. Brilliant bull by Ferrera.

Finds kilane and he rolls the ball on the six shop books to a prison Massovski who just knocked it into the goal.

Great goal, great team goal.

By the Sounders, and what a timely goal as well, just minutes before the end of the first half.

We'll see what the referee adds on.

The referee has a momentary check, they are not the all clear and Colorado kick us off.

This may not pertain to this game, but it's gonna make Brian Smester's job that much harder going into next week because he's now three for three. So how do you how do you not play a guy who's, like I said, forward's run on streaks.

They score goals, So how do you do this coming next week? I think it's gonna be a fun conversation after the game.

Well, two game winning goals in the last two games as well winn An RSL one nil and of course the three nil win last weeks Nashville thesossis win the first goal. So two goals, two game winning goals in the last two games, and then three goals in the last three games in total.

Each of those goals have been the first goal for the Sounders.

Tick past the one minute mark that the referee added on and imagine win Stefan Frey.

Launches the ball into.

The night sky, the referee will blow his whistle on there it goes, and what a timely goal it was for the Sounders. It was a ball by Ferrera, split the back line, Kolanie, an ever willing runner on that right hand side, found himself inside the eighteen yard box, roll the ball square to Mussovski, who scored his third goal in three games.

Helen Roe, your final thoughts.

It wasn't the best half of Seattle, and we talked about this game not being pretty, and they've got to sort out some things in the back line, maybe in that midfield as well. But when you're away from home and you've got the grit and you've got that good character that they have and the quality of someone like Hazus Ferrera and a willing runner of Kilanie, you find a way. And that's what That's what Brian Specer is

In the second half.

We'll take a short break.

Jackson Phelps, Marcus Hanneman and James Riley, who have lots to talk about from that first half, but a halftime Here at Dick Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado, it's the Colorado Rapids.

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Well, it was in the first prettiest first half we've seen, but it was a Sounders lead there right before the break. Danny Mazowski his third goal in as many games. He scored the game winner against Dallas, first goal last week in the three to nothing went over Nashville, and then here he is scoring again right before the half. Hey, who's Ferira finds klane on the wing, he crosses it in and Mizzosky knocks it into the back of the net and into Sounders one nothing lead here at the break.

I thought it was a decent forty five to be honest. Obviously, the Sounders bent but didn't break. Had a couple, you know, few lucky moments on corner kicks and then the giveaway with Bassett hitting the post. Last week it was Stephen Frye actually making saves to.

Keep the group in the game.

And so then the Sounders on the other way were opportunistic. I thought they had chances. Hey sus Ferrara had a great chance ten and twelve yards out, and then Rothrock had a great chance to test the goalkeeper early. And then Massovski's been creeping and it's and it was a good decisive quick free kick right into hey SU's Hey Sue's able to spring a guy wide and Klanne and then you have Misovski making a goal near post run.

Little sloppy in the back, especially away from home, so it means in Colorado you're going to be chasing it all the time.

Right, it's no good.

Right, You've got to take care of the ball, that's for sure. And then yeah, it's it's gonna be like this away from home right there, other teams are going to have a little run a play, And the importance of today was keeping a clean sheet as long as possible in the first half and then scoring in the last five minutes of the half. Is critical, and now you're going into halftime and looking at that up one zero,

How about that for Danny Muzoski. Third goal in as many games. But I think you're absolutely right, Marcus. You just got to be cleaner in the back from you know, the sixth minute back to back corner kicks where there's the first time yet two free runners that could have had that ball and you get it cleared off the line, and then a moment afterwards another cold basset header that

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Welcome back to the halftime show where your Seattle Sounders down in Colorado are leading the Rapids by a score of one nothing. Danny Mazowski in the forty fifth minutes. By the way, looking at other scores, only one that really want to share. A few minutes ago, Nashville was leading Chicago seven to nothing. Folks, this is football, not football. Seven It's now seven to two, so there was a safety from Chicago fire. But seven zero on fifty seven

All right, let's get to the second half.

Boys.

The Danny Muzowski train continues. Three goals, three games, So the questions are, when do you bring Jordan Morrisson, when do you bring Albert rus neck on, when do you bring Alex chrodan on? And how do you keep a one nothing lead in doing all of this?

James than Marcus, Yeah, I think your three goals in three games is fantastic. This this goal here is a very opportunistic goal late in a half. Great run, great industrious work by Klanne there in great vision by Jesus. I think you can ride it to the sixtieth minute and then you can stay in a low block, mid block and look to counter. Look, Jordan had an opportunity to have multiple goals last week when when Nashville had to push and try to, you know, push numbers forward.

So this could be a great game.

If Jordan is subbed in the sixtieth minute, gets a goal and the win, everyone's happy.

I like it.

You know, you you got to keep.

Everybody happy.

In all these situations. But which Bets is probably telling him is right now is look, hey, we got Jordan on the bench, give me everything you got, right is, And so he knows he's going to just go out and work its butt off. So so now that I say that, for sure he's subbed at halftime. That's what's happening. But the Sounders definitely have to clean up their defensive mistakes, right. They can't keep giving the ball away, Colorado will punish them.

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FM, Welcome back Sounders fans to Dick Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado, where the Sunders are leading. Here one goldtanil against the Colorado Rapids, and it was a late late goal by Danny Masoski into that first half right place right time, as it has been the last couple of weeks, his third goal in as many games.

I'm Danny Jackson.

Alongside Kellen Rowe here in the birth As a players start to get ready for or this second half, Sounders will be attacking the goal to our right in their anniversary kit, green shirts, blue shorts, white socks, and it's gonna be Colorado in this second half, attacking the goal to our left and there all burgundy kit tonight. And as the players get slowly set, we feel there's gonna be one immediate sub made.

As we saw Danny massossis see on the bench and you said.

It very wisely at halftime, Kellen, that is going to be Jordan Morris. Probably structured before the game started that Danny would have forty five, Jordan would at forty five to get some minutes under his belt, and it is turning out to be that way. So we'll get your lineup in just a moment. As Ferrera gets us going here.

As Vargas strides forward out to Rock on that fast side the left convet to rolled On, who's.

Been high quality in these first parts of the season. As the ball gets cut out, forward comes Navaho try to thread the needle, but cut out well by young Kolaney sis Man on Mausovsky's goal and the sound has build in possessions. So callen being in the lockeroo with Brian Schmittze after many games like this where the teams.

Were team was second best in most parts, but they got the all important goal. What did he say a halftime?

He said, we're lucky to be up one zero and we're gonna continue and we're gonna take that gift.

You know, well done by Danny Massovski.

Thank you for the work that you put in. But we're gonna change you here because it's it's Jordan Morrison. And we asked the question of Brian Smetzer before the game, how do you bring in your you know, quote unquote star players that are on the bench back from injury.

It was.

I believe.

Young Jackson Travis is on a yellow card. That was a crunching challenge, more abrupt than his first one. And if the referee is consistent, we will talk about consistency. Let's just see if he is consistent, because that is a clear yellow card. I don't know how you can't give a yellow card and that would be a red card on Jackson Travis, and that to me is a really shocking decision by the referee.

It is, but you know, I think I actually don't mind it. It's the forty seventh minute.

Now, it's the very beginning of that second half, and as a soundress fan, You're going, come on, that's got to be a card.

Obviously that's a red card. But he's given the young kid a chance to say, hey, look, if you touch anyone else, you're off.

Does it Does it set the precedent them for the second half that now we set the stage that that is not a yellow card. And I get it because I agree that in the context of the of the game and the and the spectacle of the game, especially for the home team.

We don't want to give up a red card. But in the context of consistency of a referee, that has to be yellow card.

All well, I think he's what he's saying is that that's not a red card, and it's not a red card, but it would have been a yellow if that was his first I think he's giving the benefit of the doubt to the kid and saying, I know it was late.

It wasn't egregious. It was just a little bit clumsy, a little bit late. It's not a red card. But if, like I said, if you give me another chance it's another yellow.

I'll take you on that. Eleven men versus eleven men. Still here in the early minutes of this second half, sound is leading one goal to nil back of a Mausofsky goal, and he took his seat on the bench. Job done for Danny Msofski.

Sure's a level of disappointment to go off the field, but there's also a level of contentment as well, because he's done his job and Sounders now have to do theirs the back line and defend this goal lead.

As Navao has it, strikes it wide, did not.

Test step and five eighteen yards. The five gold Men on the season so far slashes it wide goal kicks. Sounders remains Colorada Hill's Sounders one calendar.

There's a lot of space there for Cole Bassett picking the ball up in the midfield and finding Navarro and again getting that shot off the top of the box and not really having any pressure except for a retreating I believe it was Paul Rothrock.

Sound is building out of the back with Yemar on this near side the right as they launched the ball forward, headed up in the night sky by Lauras, flicked forward by Detensia, then the foot of Navajo back to Mahailovich.

It's been revelations since he came in league. Threads the ball towards the Yappy towards the end line, has a chance, finds it great defending by Rothrock. I think the assist the referees flag maybe went up, but it was a cup ball back on the left hand side from Yappie.

Rothrock snuffed out the danger, cleared his lines. But it's gonna be a free kick because we just see the replay here. Sound has held a good line yacht off side for Yappy free kick.

For the Sounders.

You know, when I look at that picture of that back line, and I don't know if you saw this. I saw a back line almost like a back line of four and Paul Rothrock pretty high up on that field when when Colorado has had the ball in our half for a fair amount of time. So I'm wondering if there's a little bit of a a tactical shift there from Brian Smetzer at halftime saying, you know what, We're gonna get this four four back line a chance at Paul, I want you to go play on that left side as a winger.

Yeah, there's a two.

Certainly look noise and compact with new Who on the left hand side, Kinky he is sitting alongside Yay Mass. Let's get you the lineup. We'll go as the three for right now. But I think Kellen Rose got something there. Stephen Fryin gole about three of Yama Ki Ki He and knew Who Kilaney on the right, Rothrock on the left, Christian and Obed in the middle, attacking three of Pedro de la Vega, Hages Frere and Batman. Jordan Morris on the field came on a half time for goalscorer Danny

And has done himself a world of good again today.

Whether he wants to do it or not, or wanted to do it. I love when you see Klae when he's on the field. You see him one working harder than everyone on the field.

He's up and down that line, he's making sure he's getting stuck into tackles, he's playing the easy ball whenever he can. But also he's always got a smile on his face. But when you talk to him, he's a good kid. He has a smile on his face. He just wants to be nice and he's a kind person. So whether he wants to do it or not, he's really good at it and we're glad he's here.

We certainly are a standing so far goal against l EFC Systs tonight is the ball gets flipped in, Lauras.

Gets Samos steps in. It's gonna be at just on top of the eighteen yard boxers. Good into play by Colorado. Ruffrey gives the.

Foul as of now, no yellow card, as he said he set the precedent with that foul from young Jackson. Travis didn't get his second yellow card of the game early in this second half. But it's gonna be a chance from just outside the eighteen yard books, just left of center.

It's quality play from Colorado. It's just good one touch ball.

It's good running off the ball and Yamar who's you know, it hasn't had the cleanest of games tonight, as we saw in that first half on the ball. Off the ball, you know, finds a way to stick a leg out, a little bit clumsy and good, you know, good on la Raza for taking that touch and find a way pasty Amar's for my first look that was a very close call, and I'm guessing they're looking at it a vr here whether that was inside the box or not. But I believe it's just outside, like you.

Said, yeap, just a yard or so outside the books for right now, Mahilovich sitting on the ball, hands on his hips, the Vajos in close proximity. Jordi Mahilovitch four goals, three assists on his year.

As we look at it, I gotta probably check my eyes because that's a few yards back.

Yeah, well, we'll give.

You the benefit of the down. Its altitude looks a little bit different. But here's my Highovich just a yard or two outside the eighteen yard boxes. Kellen Rode confirmed called Bassett standing Ronaldo esque, hands by his side, legs apart, but it's gonna be my Hilovich. It takes two or three steps back line. The wall for the sound is just around whether the penalty spot is twelve yards from Fry's goals.

Fried tries to look around the corner.

Here's my Hilovich goes short, it goes low, and in the bottom corner it goes the wall.

Jumped my Highlovich went low under the wall, It went find the bottom corner and that's an equalizing goal for Colorado here in the fifty fifth minute.

The Rapids one sound is one you know when players do this, it's so clever, but it's not an easy place to play.

And I think that I would love to ask actually Marcus about this after the game, especially because it's not easy for a goalkeeper. It's you're trusting your wall. That's why you put them there. You're gonna stay in your position. But nowadays, because of the cleverness of players.

People have put people underneath the wall and it's I know that Stephan is not one that enjoys that, but he once again gets punished for it. And so great play for Mahalovich and unfortunate at the Seattle Sounders.

They were looking at the replay right now.

Sam has had a wall and they jumped and right under the wall. When we've seen play is laid down behind the wall at times, will you go on that because it feels like if a player be laid down, that would have been something that would not have ruled the way it did.

I like it because there are players nowadays that can do it and you want to be and they can also dip it over the over that wall, and so you want the wall to jump as high as they can to protect that side. I trust Stephan Fry if it's going anywhere near him and to have that. So he trusted his wall and unfortunately no one was laying unerneath it.

Well, good clever goal, bla Mahilevich. Not what the sign just wanted.

And sure the conversation will come up again about a potential yellow second yellow card and the Red Sounders now have all sort of roll up their sleeves now.

And dig in.

Of course they have a plethora of options off the bench, but it was Mahailovich goal is fifth goal of the campaign that gets the Rapids right back into this game because the Sounds now.

Get another footholders Frere gives up the ball. They'll slop in the middle of the park by rolled On as my high of itch flicks it up to Bassett, back to Mahailovich, headed down by Kimky, it flicked away by Christian rolled on, finds Alex rolled on in the midst of that goal came on Russnecks on the field as well. De la Vega off.

It looks like we'll get a confirmation of that, de la Vega off and Kilaney off.

We'll see if that shifts the team.

And.

Unexplicably rolled On just rolls it out of bounds. Played the ball from center the fast side. The sound has left and nobody there sounds you need to take a quick breath, just get themselves back in the game.

So Rosneck on like for like for de la Vega, Ferrera is gonna.

Play with Rosneck just in behind Jordan Morris. So Sounders got their men on the field. Now Alex rolled on on that right hand side. We'll see if the Sounders, though, do shift to the more of a conventional four. Now, let's flick around the corner by Rosneck, lot flick by Morris giving away as em plays the ball into Josh Atensio. Time and space on the ball, A bit too much time and space on the ball in the middle of the park for Colorado as it's zipped in by a

Found their feet and they're making it as chaotic as possible, and they're finding a way to keep Seattle pinned back as much as they can. So now that they have these players on the field like a Alex Roldanie At, Albert Rusnick and Jordan Morris, and I would say even Christian Roldan. Can you find a way to just take the sting out of it, like you said, can you connect a few passes?

Can you take a breath? Can you slow the game down a little bit, and then when the game calls for it, can you spread it in behind to Jordan Morris who can use his speed and then finish this game off.

You know, Colorado's doing a really good job of just keeping everything jam packed on top of Seattle. As Colorado makes a very very smart souff taking off Travis.

Yep, it's gonna be Ian Murphy comes on for.

Young Jackson. Travis should be walking off with a red car. But I'll keep my mouse.

Shutt on that.

Got away with a bad time and the good lesson for the young kid. It is a good lesson, and you know he could learn it both ways. You can learn it by getting the red card and bring your team down one zero and down a man. But he's the referee.

Game a little benefited out there, corner.

Caick full Colorado quick little play on their right hand side. Mahileovitch has got a jog over to take it with his right foot. So outswinger for Colorado, who looked dangerous on set pieces so far, Sounders having been able to really handle the pressure of delivery from Mihailovich coming in.

I'm looking at the subs because the subs have to come up to this game immediately.

And now on a corner cake, Colorado has already been dangerous and Albert Rusnak, Jordan Morris, Alex Hoddan.

Can they make sure that they're up to this game and get getting their marks right?

On fifth corner kick for Colorado and it comes outswinger headed down by Navauo.

Good save by Fry, flung himself to his right and he was Navajo again.

Free header inside the box. It was a good snapheader from about ten yards out. Good save by Fry remains one one.

Someone's just got to get a body in front.

Like they're playing good balls in the box, but someone's, as Marcus said, that the zone's not working. So can they find a way just to get a body in there, make sure it's harder for them to get a free header and that.

Way it makes it a little easier.

Save for Steven Fry, call Bassett jumping in front, Ashi Mahialoich jumps in front of Alex troll Don there's a layoff by Jordan Morris's gonna be a Sounders throwing comes in quickly by Christian roll done heavy ball by ye Ma, hard to handle for Vargas wasn't able to.

Control it.

And deliver a pass, and here come Colorado again. Ball comes to a Bassu who spins away on the right hand side, flicks up the ball away from Rothrock, challenged by Paul, but dropped by.

Cannon and to Tensio. Is gonna whip it in.

Paul delivery from Atensio finds a chest of Alex Roldan.

The foot of Arrera.

Back to Vargas strides forward and you get more involved in the attacking half of the field, just as he did last week against Nashville, who, by the way, rebounded incredibly well after that three Niel drubbing on.

The West Coast in Seattle. Came back and as the last check it was seven to two, and that's a final Nashville seven Chicago tour who under great burhol to have found some real form coming into this season.

As Rosna tries to roll it in, Maxu comes out. Hanson came flying out of his goal, but Maxu took care of business cleared his lines and then it's hooked forward by Cannon asking for the throwing as.

It came up.

You happy, But note the referee and the assistant referee on the fast sign gives it to Colorado's that burn.

Let me talk about the roller coasters at the MLS, right, the team can go away and lose three zero and come back and find a way to win seven. To the Sounders that have shown it over the years that they can do it as well, is not start off the hottest as they've done in the past'd find a ways and win the MLS Cup towards the end of

Let's get some Western Conference results today.

Already Columbus two, San Jose one, so after a good bright start by Bruce Arena's men, San Jose signed to Falter losing away from home.

San Diego won Salt Lake three. So only getting a good away win against a exciting San Diego team or if of course beat the Sounders just a few weeks ago three nil at home Houston two, Austin nil. And then here in Commer City, Colorado, it's the Rapids one Sounders one Masovski goalscorer just before the end of the first half went off at half time for Jordan Morris and the score up that is presented by Toyota.

We talked about the first half and how it was a little bit of a tale of the last five minute. Sounders playing very well, but the first you know, forty not.

So well in Colorado really being on top of it, but I think you're seeing a lot of the same things happen here where they can't get a foothold of this game.

The passes aren't connecting very well, the runs aren't well tied at the moment. Can they find a way to grind out a tie or three points?

Right?

One or three points? You cannot drop once again?

Well, Colorado. Yes, it's altitude, but it can also be extremely cold here.

But the weather seems to favor people coming out in their short sleeved shirts. As the weather starts to turn here in the Mountain region, the Mountain West region, I think three hundred days of sunshine per year here in Colorado.

I lived in when I bouldered for a while.

When I played for the Rapids, and it is something it really does shine day in day out, beautiful area of the country.

I'd say I get my sunshine when I was in Colorado as well, but it was twenty four hours and I think I was in Washington, so it wasn't I didn't get much sunshine on that one because I think it was December.

Yep.

Story franchise of course for the An Schultz, one of the original owners, did own the Rapids before selling it now to new ownership who have reinvested in the club more so than they have done. Befoced and cronky of course, owner of Arsenal and the Rams owns the Rapids. It was discontent by the fans just a year or two ago on the direction of the club and it forced some reinvestment.

My Heileovich and Nava Hoping two of those players who have delivered today.

Mahalovich with his goal Navajo has been a real present, especially from corner kicks to two headers on target, one saved, one cleared off the line by rolled on.

But when you talk about altitude and weather, and stuff. There's obviously a conversation.

Callen about, you know, rejigging the calendar for MLS and trying to line it more with the rest of the world, where we go kind of August through just after Thanksgiving with a breakover the Christmas period and then January February time all the way through to late spring early summer.

What do you make of that shift and change at MLS.

I think it would be a positive.

It's just it would take some time and it would almost be Okay, this is what's gonna happen.

We've just got to kind of deal with the with what's with the repercussions of it. But you're talking about playing heavy minutes and heavy times in places like Dallas, Austin, Orlando in that hot, hot, hot summertime, even in Boxing Kansas City.

It's hard to play those games in those areas. However, you flip the script a little bit and you're not playing in the snow. You're not playing in the East, the northeast in Utah in those snow games.

Yeah, you got Colorado, Utah, Toronto. We obviously the sound is known from twenty sixteen to seventeen, how.

Cold it can be there.

I think it was nine degrees in the twenty seventeen final, remember that freezing cold as it was.

Sounds, of course getting.

Joy in the twenty sixteenth for their first MLS Cup penalties. Sounds give the ball away. It's been a real difficult second half so far for the Sounds.

I'm going be able to get hold of the ball, but it comes Colorado wriggling freeze. Yeah, with his left foot just over hits the stencher behind the goal. It's gonna be a goal kick. Sounders here in the sixty sixth minute, it's the Rapids.

One sound as one. But the Sounders need to find a grip of the game. Again, there's Colorado are knocking on the door.

That's what it is.

They need to find a grip of this game because it is a little disconnected. Can they kind of just pull everyone in. It's a little bit too much space and away from home, you have to compact that midfield, to compact that back line, to make sure there's no easy way out. And we talked about trying to keep a zero, and obviously they scored here early in the second half, but can they find a way to just to keep them out of the back it once again.

Giving away again by sound As they build there's the tensio thirty arts and goal tries to thread the needle find.

Lorez and it's Knew who clears his lines on the.

Far side the left towards Morris, who has no support at all is he heads the ball forward Rosneck closed the ball down but giving away by Bassett.

Good ball bye, rolled on to the foot of Rothrock, driving forward towards the left corner of the box. Try to slide it in roll to Morris. He's asking for a ham ball. Max who went down try to block the cross. He did block it, ricocheting too the goalkeeper's hands, but Rothrock is asking for a ham ball.

See if the referee here's anything in his earpiece to pause the game and take a look. So far nothing Rapids have it on the halfway line with former Sounders man Josh Tantier holds it out to sub Murphy on the field for.

Travis. Here's my high Levitch goalscorer for Colorado's goal.

See good step by Ferrera. Can he find his first goal? What't be a timely place to score it? To keep the Sounders run Here of two gwins out the last two games going. It comes Rothrock left corner of the box, far side, Kennon slows him down. Rothorck just skips towards his right foot, squares it across to Alex Roldan time and space twenty five yards.

From Gold goes back to Nuho.

Sounder's going the wrong direction, going back instead of forward and sloppy again by Yamar.

It's been story of his nights so far. As Navajo goes down, I think it was a tug of the shirt by Ya. Mari's made a couple of ill advised fowls in the first hal I've got away with it. This time he doesn't, and it was all by his own doing. Unfortunately, you chase down, pulled Navarro down, but really nothing there. Do you look at the replay Kellen Lava goes down again, far too easily.

But the end of the day was a poor giveaway from Yama. It's a foul for Colorado.

It was.

It was a little bit of an easy one. It was actually probably pretty smart play from Navarro. He took the long touch and knew he wasn't gonna get there, and you saw that Gamer was the one that gave it away, so it's given a reason for the reft to give him a yellow yellow guard. But I liked what was happening there is they didn't force the sounders didn't force the ball when they got up there.

But then they ran out of ideas, they ran out. They were a little bit stagnant as they come across it.

It comes to the top of the box, he gets it from Bassett. Items like a foul on Ferrara, nothing give him by the referee. The happy knocks you back to Kennon the fast sight they're right, floats it in towards the back stick.

Alex rold On lets it go, skips through to over the endline.

Goalkick sounders here As who coached the seventeen minute mark Sounders one Colorado one.

Talk about sounders finding a way to get just take a stick out of this game. It's finding possession, but finding possession with with a little bit of an.

Outcome, right, so we find the way to get in the other half the field. Finally connect a few passes, but then there's a little bit of stagnant.

It ruins the flow of the game and there's no option and unfortunately that's where you find things that in the back line.

You're making your defenders make the game good.

Played by the rolled arm brothers. They break out a pressure rolling down the line to this near side the right to Jordan Morris willing runner in behind the back line for Colorado, picks it up, comes back to Alex Roldan in support to his brother Christian squared across to Obed just left of center, rolls it out to News getting more advanced. Now from that left hand side, Rothrock tries to.

Roll the ball in behind close to the ball down comes off Rothrock far side Colorado's right. As he looks across to the bench, maybe he's waiting for the introduction of Ryan Kent.

Twenty minutes left of the ninety and there is Ryan Kent.

Got ten minutes last week, and now we'll get a full twenty minutes. And would there'd be a great introduction for Ryan Kent.

We've seen the clips of his time at Rangers, had some time with Fenerbache. We'll see there is Farrera. Actually, Rothrock took a look over.

It's gonna be Farrera comes off disappointment in a chance from twelve yards skind it over the top and now Ryan Kent comes on, can he make his mark for his second MLS game for the Sounders.

There's a little bit of frustration there from Ferrera saying, why you know, why me, I'm doing the work, I'm I'm keeping the ball, I've connected my passes. I'm confused there. But look, as a player, he's played a lot. He did have a few chances early in the game.

But we're looking for him to, you know, come in next week and continue his performances.

And looking down here, how it's setting up, I think he might be right shifting maybe to a four. We'll see how it plays out. Rolled down, of course, always a little bit further forward than normal, but with Ryan Kent, Rothrock maybe left and right hand side, it would shine slide Rosneck to his typical number ten spot right in behind Jordan Morris.

Just see how this plays out.

But Brian has talked about like, how do you get so many attacking players on the field, and you know, a four back system might provide you that options with those three attacking plays in behind Jordan Morris.

I agree, and it gives Albert Rusnak a little bit more freedom to kind of make the game his and when he's in that number ten spot, he can he can drift out wide, he can find himself next to Jordan Morris. But that's where Albert Rusnak is more comfortable, and that's where he was getting his sixteen assists that season.

Well, tonight's match is presented by the Western Washington Toyota Dealers, who get here in the seventy second minute, Colorado one, Sounders one.

And Callen.

It's going to be a vote of confidence for Paul Rothrock as well. You know you got one truce probably to make jea Palo Danny Laver. Of course, on the field, you can't imagine with a full week to go until next week's home game against Saint Louis, that Vargas.

And rolled On will come off the field. So kind of thinks Brian's made his moves.

Now he's putting a little trust in Paul Rothrock and saying I need a guy who's going to be willing to do the work to do the running. He's found himself in good spots on this wing. At the ball, he tried to play into.

Jordan Morris as Bassett playing out to Mahailovich was back to Ian Murphy clips it in and Bullbound's yappy was they'll step over by Bassett yapp he couldn't control the ball inside the eighteen yard box. Heavy touch rolls through to Stephan fry Sands will take that all day long.

But for Colorado they're certainly knocking on the door. The Sounds need to absorb this pressure.

It's not been a clean game from the Sounders so far in possession, certainly in their defensive half of the field and giving them sloppy balls away and sometimes they cause their own problems.

It's doing the little things correctly and then just completing your passes. It's the basics.

This game has been about the basics and unfortunately that's what cast the Sounders that goal as well.

It comes Ryan Kent first real involvement here. They'll step over a nice little play on his left foot. It's comfortable with both feet. Thus for sure, as the ball flicks in, can roll.

Do On get there? He does, flicks it though to the back stick, headed away up, went over the end line. Assistant referee flag on this near side went up. Alex rolled On couldn't quite get there. A little heavy on the pass.

We'll talk about options and Ryan Kent first off, right when he gets the ball, he's going at the line, at that back line, and that's exactly what the Sounders need right now, not just in this game, but in this in the next season, in this season. So once he does find that ball, you'll see Alex Rowdon kind of drift by and give him another option on that overlap, because that allows Ryan can't to make a decision, almost like a quarterback option.

If anyone who walks watches American.

Football, cluttering challenge Kim kehy On Navaja Refree blew his whistle straight away, came in. Kim Key's eyes were on the ball, no question. Little Line Navara more backed into him than anything. Awkward challenge Kim Key, He's gonna be slow to get up. Jonathan Bell course available. But for the Sounders, we've made a number of changes already. It's

And are a reminder of that because I had to remind myself that the Jordan Morris change at halftime did not count for a change, an opportunity to change, So just you should have one more opportunity to change and go back.

To obviously given forty five minutes to Jordan, but also the opportunity and not to burn away one of those opportunities. That ball goes up, bounces through a good spring by kim Ki Hee goes down.

Another knock on the leg for kim KIH sure if.

It's something that he picked up in the earlier collision by Navaja or something fresh.

Not look comfortable right now.

And it's been too awkward landings for kim Kihey, I think that's what kind of caused it. There is the first one Navarro looked like if Navarro fell on his leg as well, and then a second time there someone falling on kim Key.

He's taking a beating in the last two minutes.

Yeah, we'll see what kim Ky can do.

Of course, Johnson Bells you mentioned on the bench left sided player and slide into the center back role.

We've seen him do that.

DC units had played so well stepping in for that game last year. For his first meaningful contribution is in a on his shirt and to shift that back forward make it certainly more comfortable for Bell just sliding that left hand side with Yamar on the right. The sound has hooked the ball clear by Christian rolled on, headed up in the air by Yappy, challenged by kim Ky. He looks okay as Navarro picks it up. Paul Bassett support on the right hand side. Knew goes across stretched

Yeah, just again Gamar not getting his feet right.

Is it's a well positioned play, but just not getting his feet right to put this out instead of putting it out for a corner? Can he put it out for a one of clearance? But to throw it anything else right? Anything else by the corner? Obviously he saved the play. This seems a good, good positional play by Yamar, but can he get his feet right?

So Rapids fans on their feet just like they are at lumen Field, making some noise, try to encourage their team to find this goal and it comes whipped in by Mahilevitch.

She can't header this time? Is oh cm. He's about seven eight yards out and he's frustrated with himself.

I couldn't hit the target, went over the top goal kicks sound as remains one to one, but again the threat from corner kicks is palpable callen and the sound is unable to deal with it.

Whether you're gonna go win that ball and you're a big guy, whether you're a small guy and scrappy, you've got to find a way to make it harder on these guys.

Can you can you get a tug on the jersey? Can you make sure you bump them before he jumps.

There's little things that you can do, little savviness in soccer, savviness that you can have.

It comes cool passet left hand side, cuts towards his right foot, good block by rolled on, but only finds the foot of Mahilovich.

Ba's a nava.

A good step by rolled on. It flects the ball out to the fast side the right. Mahalavich picks it up, kind of makes an overlapping run. He comes back to Josh attensus steady Eddie in the middle of the park is Josh Attensu on his.

Game against his former.

Club Left four one point three million go up to one point six million just the end of preseason. Padrick Smith calling Moneyball over here, loves his stats. Saw something in Josh Detenzio's game that fit well with the team that Chris Armis is building, and he's been ever present alongside Loria's in the middle of the park.

But I'm thinking about this team right now, and I'm thinking what would Brian Smetzer be thinking right now? It's you know, when kim keyhy goes down twice in a minute, you see guy a lot of legs and away game. How early do you make a sub here? Or are you thinking about making a sub? Are you holding one back just in case something happens in the.

Eighty fifth minute?

You know, I'm trying to think of what Brian s Metzer might think here, and I think he's going to hold one because there's a chance that you know, you don't want to go to ten man if if someone has to go down like a kim Ki Hey, but you also don't want to.

Go for it and leave yourself vulnerable.

Well, kim Key's been so solid since he came on, came up of course against Dollan thing was halftime and kept that clean sheet played yesterday, won the clean sheet. As Roth Grog wins the foul off, Maxu just run to him to a little push on his old buddy Atensia. Well done, clips out of the top Jordan Morris, can he find it? As Hansen comes outreach the game well young goalkeeper picks it up.

Max gives him a round of applause.

But Sounders FC Soccer is presented by Provident Swedish, official healthcare partner of Sounders FC's we ticked towards the eighty minute mark Colorado won Sounders one.

This score date is presented by Providence Swedish.

I'd say young Hanson, it's a good MLS debut from him. He hasn't.

I'll give credit to him, but the Sounders have not given him enough to do. We haven't given shots on ball, we haven't been crossing the ball into his area, making him feel as if he is in the MLS and not anywhere else.

So he is well done thus far.

Good performance as a young kid, but Sounders need to put a little more pressure.

It comes wrong decision by Vargas, try to find it, almost gets it by rothrock It clips off his heels where his cannon who slid in knocked it off Rothrock. It's gonna be a throwing for Colorado. Bargas asking a little bit too much of Rothrock because he played the ball in behind.

Once again, just a little bit out of sync. Can the ball beat to his feet rather than in behind? Can Can we find a way to.

Connect our passes?

And sometimes it is just the basic passes to get yourself in that flow again, and then you try something hard again.

Well, you know, gett into the final ten minutes.

There's so many statistics around goals conceded in final ten minutes as players get fatigued, and it's about mental strength and mental toughness. Well, see if Ryan Ken can do something. A little click of the ball to the left hand side to Rothrock, picked up by Rosnick, finds the foot of Ken, who's floated from the right hand side now to the left hand side, overlapping brun Rothrock.

Brings it in. Marris can't quite get the ball bouncing up in the air, top of the box.

Strike just ride.

By Russnick just inside the eighteen. It sliced off his right foot, just missed the far post. It's gonna be a goal kick remains one to one, but really good chance. For Albert Rosnik.

We talk about sloppy play from the Seattle Sounders and now you see it from Colorado. Jordan Moore is just making himself in a noonsense, making it hard for clear. It falls to a guy you wanted to fall to in Albert Rusnak, but you see a little bit of that rust coming in. It was good plagu way to get your body in front of it from Colorado. But Albert Rusnak is just showing that little bit of rust of not having that gainsmanship that he's.

Had over the years.

Yep, Danish international Maxu threw himself in front of it, just did enough, didn't deflect it, but his presence there put off Rosneck sliced it off his right foot.

As Kellen mentioned, I'm not sure there's another played one who to get that ball just dropped to his right foot perfectly about twelve fifteen yards out from goal.

If it was forty yards out, I want job Paulo on it because he finds a way to score those once a year he does.

He's isn't you know, scored in a wall, but certainly in his first handful of seasons the and Bangers good stuff. Spenson was always good for a couple of goals from distance as well.

I was in on zone not so much.

In the first five years of my career as well. But after that, you know, I just I made sure the fans got a little gift.

There you go, a gift from calen Row.

It comes that Sounders eighteen yards from the end line, this right inside, little flicker around the corner by Kent outstretched leg of Vargas looked tired, outstretched leg. And here come Colorado with a yapp he cost the half way line, tries to flick it around the corner. Good defending by rolled armor, picked up by a tensio. Good ball flicked around the corner from the high levitch, cleared into the

Experience has been at the Houston Dynamo two and Colorado Rapids two teams drafted in because Adam Bowdery and Zec Stephan were unavailable.

Bowjia due to injury, Stephan due to a suspension. As Lazus nudges into Knew who goes down dramatically wins the foul chance. Now for the sound has put some good delivery into the box and get the big men up. Can they score Forfreaky which we know Kellen went away from home. These are the times you've got to take those chances.

It is.

And look, look, we don't always want to know who to be streaking down that side as often as he has, but this is a good play. Get your body in front of it, make him value, kill the game a little bit. Get like you said, get your big guys in the box. Can we put something in there and fight? These are the small little plays, little nuances that you want to especially towards the last five ten minutes.

Of this game.

Refree just putting Lauraz's name into the book again, I felt like a soft yellow and I'm not gonna go back to what happened at the beginning.

So three subs out for Colorado as we get here into the final stretch of this game, six and a half minutes or so of the ninety left.

Laura's is gonna come off. It looks like it's gonna be a like for light switch with Connor Ronan.

Who's a very effective Irish youth international came over from Wolves a couple of years ago. It's gonna be subbed for Ronan. Call Bassett of course comes off as well. Wayne Frederick coming on. We'll see how they line up. We'll get you some of those changes positionally in a few minutes. The first thing they have to do coming on the field, he's gonna have to defend a defend this specific free kick from the Sounders.

Kevin Cabral comes on the field.

As well, A million dollars from Early Galaxy in December of twenty twenty two.

Hasn't really found his feet here. Orgos square up the training field. Maybe as the ball gets flicked in towards the backstick out comes.

Hanson colects it far too easily wasted opportunity for the Sounders.

It was a little bit deep in the sense of putting the bass directly in the box would be tough. I just didn't like the execution of what they came up with, and like you said, it could be like a you know on the school yard there and finding a way to get the back post. It just the execution of it was not up to stair at Sounders pot.

Or goes along. It's a yappie who came off for cabral.

Or gets launched forward, punts him out of his eighteen yard box, just drops the ball to a war cm five minutes to go of ninety Sounders led at halftime.

Conceded in the.

Early minutes of the second half of a clever free kick for Mihailovich, and it was Danny Massoski's third goal in three games. Who got the Sounders on the board sets at one one Here Commerce City, Colorado Sports Radio ninety three point three KGr FM can sounds found it a little bit of magic in these final minutes. Can they find something from deep as my Highlivich strides forward, finds cabral clips it towards the poundy spot up goes.

Foul given by the referee. Hurt the whistle before they hit the back of the net.

Another warning sign from the Colorado Rappers is that the referee did blow the whistle like you said before the ball went in the back of the net, which means VR is not going to be able.

To overturn that.

But another warning sign Clipral finding a way to he's got fresh legs and finds that Wing just chips the ball into the into the middle of the box, no real pace on the ball and Navarro just getting up and doing what he does best and put the ball on frame and it does go in.

But you know, thankful for the Sia alas Shama's fans. It was a foul.

DeMar and Navarre having a little chat asking for VR come do anything about that.

Let's come throught audio cats.

The Major League Socker may not be retransmitted, reproduced, or rebroadcast without the express written consent of Major League Soccer. And you can hear the home fans or they feel about it. Booze ringing out here at Dick Sporting Goods Park because the ball gets flicked in and it was two hands on the back of Yem Yeamar felt it went down burned the free kick.

Yem I was saying, I gave you an easy yellow and I'm gonna get this easy goal as well.

Yeah, flick forward. Here comes Rothrock now on the flick from Jordan Morris. Good play by Morris looked like it came off the ankle of Murphy, but nope, sister referee on this near side doesn't give it. Ball in the hands of Murphy, left back for Colorado.

On this near side the rapids left right in front of Chris Armers, hands in his pockets as the ball goes down line picked up well by Alex Roldan tries to stub the ball forward picked off by Colorado as the ball goes into the right channel.

With a willing runner in Cabral, overlap and run by Cannon. Here it comes, who goes down, blocks the cross goes over the end line. Corner kick remains one one.

As we look at this replay, it is yeah, two hands on the back with a mark. But I'm looking at Cabral.

He's a pasty player. He's willing to run and he's going to get a new who does who doesn't you know? He doesn't pressure all that well. He allows the pressure to come to him and with a fresh leg and the out. We'll talk about the altitude again, but the altitude and the heavy legs of a new who towards the end of this game, I'm not sure.

I like that matchup, and I'd like to see someone come over. It'd be a Roth Rock or even a center midfielder of Ovid Vargas or Crystal Baldan to come help. Can you double down and make sure and just close this game out.

As words start to happen as we talk about new Who, once again, we've got to keep our emotions intact here and not give the referee in Colorado any any edge.

Well, hey, straight off the training grounds, a line of five burgundy shirts fronted by.

Cabral looks like something off a wedding. They will get lined up just outside the six Yah books. Heilovich has the bull Fosseid the Colorado right outswinger. It's gonna be with his right foot and it comes up, goes am, goes over the top.

Sounders asked for a goal kick, Colorado, ask for the corner kick Colorado. One referee gives another corner kick as Yema pleads his innocence here, there's going to be a corner kick. And again the movement of Colorado, the ability to attack the ball on the run is dangerous.

And Heilivich has going to deliver another ball, and it's been his delivery has caused all the problems as well put the ball.

In the right areas away from Fry, providing the ability for his teammates to attack the ball.

And it comes a little lower this time heady clear by Christian rolled on good header, fluffed by Ronan challenge on too.

Rose like, hey come the sounds can they come? In transition?

Jordan Murray striding forward, rolls the ball to raft Rock, white coat of the box, takes a white touch, strikes it and it drags the shot.

There was his first touch.

Let him down, Maybe a little weary little fit segued dragged.

The shot wide. Go kick remains one to one. But sounders come in transition were dangerous, you know.

I think a little heavy legs there from Paul Rothrock and a little bit caught between two minds. He saw Albert Rusnak making that run in the far post.

But for me when he had that chance.

Oh no, We see Jordan Morris now on the ground after that long play as he stretched his way, obviously coming off that hamstring injury.

This is not what you want to see, is a Seattle sounder fim.

Jordan Morris sitting on the deck here. Ryan Kent has the ball. Sounders haven't put it out yet not a good signs knew?

Who does now put the ball out of bounds on the far signe and his shoulders drop.

And that's Jordan Morris, just disappointment all over his face and there was exactly what that is. And he looks so strong flowing forward to that chance as he flicked the ball to Rothrock and here's that stretch on the pass as he trudges off the field.

You know, we talk about game fitness and whether you can get involved in practice to as much running as you can.

There's there's there's no there's no replacement for a game.

The the intensity, the amount of running, the little clips that you're gonna get and overstretching, and unfortunately Jordan Morris hasn't had that and it's it's a tough time to play and if he's put his body through a lot over the years, and unfortunately, as he walks off, this is a it's a hard thing to do mentally. So we're hoping that Jordan is this is an easy one and Jordan.

Will come back.

Yep, he's walking off his own volition, which is a good sign. But his teammates trying to give him the high five as he walks with his head down, complete frustration from Jordan.

He knows what the recovery is.

And if it's a hamstring again, it's going to take some time and the Sounders staff, of course, will make sure that it's the best treatment he possibly can. We'll rushing back.

If Jonathan Bell is gonna come on for him, he's gonna play alongside Kim Keihee Ryan Canterest played the ball through the legs, isn't able to the Vajo just skips away from pressure. Fines Connor road a good ball into Yappy outcomes Cephro and Fry doesn't touch the ball. There's actually Cabral, I should say made the running behind, couldn't

Cabral's come out of this game and changed it as a positive for Colorado. He has been all over the place will like I said, a willing runner and making good runs, and they're finding him the ball because they know he has fresh legs and he's finding chances.

Well.

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Colorado inside the box. You just stand.

Mahiloitch, curled effort, goes wide, sounds will take that all day long. At this point, Callen, you just want to get back in the locker room, earn the point, get back home and then get what we think will be a tough game against St.

Louis.

Saint Lewis of course beat us earlier in the season one goal to nil, a little bit of revenge.

But Colorado is still knocking.

This is one of those games that at this moment, especially you got a minute or so left. Howeverybody he wants to add on the referee, But these clearances are no longer trying to find feet, trying to find a cushion header. This clearances are now how far can I kick this up the field and can we push our lineup and make sure this is not an easy game.

All goes long challenged by Rothrockers now slid up to that number nine spot in place of Morris, so a conservative move from Brian tries to see out this game.

It's not been a good game for the Sounders in terms of quality. They've huffed and puffed the will managed to really test young Hanson in Colorado's goal. Now they have to continue to stand strong as Ryan.

Kent't comes flashing best good play by Ryan Brian Schmitz.

Will light that from his new signing as he chases backs. A Tantio had a good, real, really good shift from Josha Tensio. As Rothrock comes flying in, tries to nick the ball off of Wassi him It goes all the way back to Hanson in the Colorado goal, who rolls it out to Ronan gets ball to Masu just over just under thirty seconds ago of the four minutes of at it time.

Sounders just need to see this game out.

John de Bell challenges heads the ball forward picked up by josh A Tensio flicks it to Navajo and a Tensio plays into his left hand side to Murphy left corner of the box, clips it in bought down be Hailovich.

Clear by Kim Kihee finds canon fast sight look I referee, he was gonna put the whistler's mouth, he doesn't. Ball comes in head. A good save by Fry at the death here in Colorado. Makes a critical save as he did last week against Nashville. It's gonna be a corner kick.

We talked about how Stephen Fry is not just first leadership but the amount of times that he makes great saves, and once again he's keeping the Sounders involved in this game and is now hopefully walking away.

With a point. They have to get through this corner to do so. But man, what a great save from step and Fry.

Step and five just nursing, maybe a little knock he took on the post as he made that save. Now the Sounder's got to defend this corner gate most likely the last chance of the game here for Colorado. They've been dangerous on corner kicks. They have to stand strong. Now challenge clear the ball. The referee' whistle should go. As the ball gets whipped in top of the six, there's Stephan Fry, good solid punch.

Another brilliant play by the Sounders.

Goalkeeper and the referee does put the whistle to his mouth, brings this pulsating game to a close.

It wasn't a.

Higher quality, certainly in the Sounder's side, but they earned a really hard four point here on the road in Colorado. It was Danny Massovski in the forty fifth minute, just before the halftime break, got the Sounders on the board. They went in at halftime.

Leading one toil and then within ten minutes of the second half it is Mahailevich who's slid the ball under the jumping wall, put it in the bottom corner to Tony things up and that's the way it finished. Kelen Royal Final thoughts.

These players are gonna feel a little hard done because they were up one zero.

At the half, they were feeling good.

They got their players back on the field and just I think walking away from this one walking away with a point with how bad the quality was a little bit, the disoriented, the mispasses that they had, the ability that you know, thankfully Stephan Fry was in goal to make those big saves.

I think they're gonna be they watched.

This back, they're gonna be a little happy that they came away with a point here and a hard place to play, but they got the fight done, you know, Missovski finding another goal and finding continuing that streak and hopefully that can continue because it needs to now that Jordan Moore stepped away.

Well.

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Nil, we'll take a short break.

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The final from Colorado Sounders one Colorado Rapids one. They split the points down in Commerce City tonight. Welcome into the postgame show, Jackson Phelips, James Riley, Marcus Hanneman, as we're here for the next half hour to break this thing down.

In my goodness, there's a lot to break down.

Uh.

I don't even know exactly where we want to start.

We can start with the fact that the Sounders should have played the entire second half a man up were it not been for a horrific decision by our referee, Alexis da Silva. We could start with Danny Mazowski scoring again, third goal in three games. We could start with Jordan Morris going down in the eighty ninth minute. He just came back from a hamstring injury on a big run. He goes down again, comes off with his head down.

James, where do you want to begin of all of that and more?

Always with the good Always point on the road in Colorado at altitude is excellent, and you just move on. You get the guys into the locker room, right, get cleaned up, have your debrief, and you get on with it. Obviously, the injury with Jordan's unfortunate, but it's a point on the road in Colorado. Whi's not easy, and it keeps the unbeaten streak alive, which is fantastic, and you return home next weekend.

Marcus, where do you want to start? Well?

I mean it is a great point away from here, yeah, right, but when you're up one zero in a game away from home, you should be able to figure out a way to get away with some points right and disappointing, I mean, goals happen, and especially you know away from away in Colorado. You know teams there and they were

You said a halftime I think something really smart. You were talking about, how listen on the crosses in the corners are you know our zone marking was not working and Colorado was getting positions on both of them, and they just kept getting these opportunities over and over and over again, and it didn't change. And we continue to

Finds Kevin Foss side little I referre he was gonna put the whistlegs mouth he doesn't.

Bull comes in.

Head a good saved hi Fry at the death here in Colorado.

Makes a critical save as he did last week against Nashville.

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But Marcus to that point, he.

Takes heroics from Stephan Fry because Colorado guys just kept getting positioning all game.

Yeah, and you know, Colorado's a bigger team than Sounders. We don't have you know, our center backs are big, but other than that, we're not massive. Right, So they were hitting good in swinging corners, putting Sounders under pressure all night. Stephan Fry didn't wasn't able to come for across until the dying minutes of the second half as well,

Yeah, stuff made a couple good plays in this game. Kept at one point one and Seattle has the point on the road one to one. Final score tonight, let's continue. Obviously there is good and getting the result in the road in general is good. But let's some specifics from this game to talk about. I want to go and talk about Alexis to Silva, the referee tonight. I don't know sure if you guys care about talking about this. I care about talking about this because I am a

If it's a yellow, it's a yellow point taken it is, it's a double yello. It's an easy call, and you see the referee. It doesn't matter what minute of the game. If Layer has a deserving tackle or incident that deserves a yellow, whether it's his first or second, it should be. So with that said, with that a doubt, I also agree it should have been a yellow. A thing that I always tell my players is control what you can control. I think as you go to that you can't control that,

It would just it scores a few minutes later that it's frustrating Marcus.

Well, yeah, but referees are always tailored terrible.

It doesn't get me too excited anymore, although there was there was a time where I definitely I think I'm still the only MLS player.

To be sent off from the bench.

Amazing.

But to James's point, Sounders only had three shots on target against a young keeper, right, and you know there was Knew who had a chance to have a shot from long range. And I don't really, you know, particularly think Knew who should be shooting from long range, but you know he probably should be. You've got a young keeper, like, we need to get stuff on target. Corner kicks weren't good enough, right, All our set pieces weren't good enough.

The Sounders, for me, had five clear chances in this game. In the first half. It was Jesus and then you had roth Rock that had an opportunity, and then you had the goal, right, great opportunity there. Second half they had two legitimate opportunities eightieth minute the Russnach volley and the eighty ninth minute counter where Jordan unfortunately got injured. And it was interesting because I thought he was going

That's the hammi for Jordan, because he just came back from the hammis, so.

That could be.

But for me, those are their two best chances of speculations as well.

We don't know, yeah, we don't, we don't.

We don't know anything, right, but see him going down as no contact, that's no good Rothrock.

I thought he should have shot at first time. Yep and.

Fresh Rothrock in the first twenty minutes for the first half, but the end of the game when he's up and down, sprinting all over the place in Colorado, he's got big old sprint and you know it's laid out for him.

Yeah, that had eighteenth minute chance from Hayesus Ferreira where he's ten yards out middle of the box, no Colorado player within five yards of him, and he just skies it to the moon. I mean we talk about, you know, shots on goal, which is you said five, right, that h.

Three three right?

So three that number should easily be five when you consider Rusnack in the eightieth and then heyesus in the eighteenth. It's just it's frustrating because I think, ultimately, yes, it's a point on the road, we should be happy. But at the same time, I think a lot of Sounder fans, myself included, are ridiculously frustrated that this wasn't a full three points for multiple reasons from our own doing, and also of course from the fact that we should have

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Sometimes I wish we had the ability to record what we're talking about in the commercial break, like the last three minutes, I want to just call and paste that whole conversation. No, but it's good, and I think we start by talking about what we let off the conversation with, which is Jordan Morris comes on at the half for Danny Mazovsky, and my first question was was that the right call to Considering Danny Mozoski scored in the forty

Well, he took that stupid yellow early on, Yeah, right when the defender took a dive and you know he was upset and frustrated and he boots the ball away automatic yellow? Right was did Schmidz think if we go down to ten men here, right, let's get him off. Good time to bring Jordan on? You know, all these different things, right. I don't know what what factor did in do that, but that could have come to play.

I think it's really smart the fact that, yeah, they yellow for Mazovsky. If for everybody's saying, why didn't you keep moose on that? That certainly probably played a role in that. Then let's move forward here. I will mention that tonight's toyon a man of the match is, of course we played there in the first segment. Stephan Fry, what a save to get the Seattle to point there in the ninety fifth minute. With that save, your local toyto dealers are proud to present tonight's man of the match.

What did you guys see on that play? Well, you've got a set piece right, it's nineteen yards out. It's difficult to get that ball up and down make him beat you. That's the first thing. Like you don't need to jump right, the wall needs to be strong. But again if you just if you see the balls going high, jump and me and we were talking earlier about why he did that go ahead And obviously they've seen the Sounders while be jumping because he ran straight over.

To Chris Sharp, Yeah, their goalkeeper and set piece coach when I was there, and Mahalovich jumped into his arm. So certainly they had an idea of how the Sounders utilized their wall.

Why was there not maybe like a knew who laying down underneath the wall to protect against that.

Well, well it looks stupid, that's one reason, but it would have worked probably. Yeah, But still I think like if for a goalkeeper, you're standing there, you take your side. For them to get that ball up and down, usually they can't get enough power on it. I can now take one or two steps make you know they're going to have to put it in the top corner, which is really difficult. And you know, I made a living out of being a goalkeeper, not by being the best

Going to happen.

Yeah, certainly you play the percentages.

I agree.

That's how we set up our wall. We don't have a guy laying behind it.

We just have them.

The wall can jump a little bit, but not enough that you allow a ball to go under you, and not obviously if you're playing on dry turf versus wet grass. We know Commerce City is very slick and do and it's a fast paced game there. And then you have your goalkeeper take care of his side. So you trust your wall and you have your goalkeeper take care of his side. If he's able to get it up and over the wall and beat your goalkeeper, you applaud it

Up that goal.

Yeah, And I guess credit to the Colorado goalkeeping coach and set piece coach Sharp, Chris Sharp, well done to him. Clearly figured that out for Seattle, that jumping wall and got it in. But other than that, step and Fry, very very good tonight outside of you know, then out even with that goal, I mean, there was just nothing he could have done. But overall, Fry deserving of Man of the Match.

I feel like that's.

Fry being Fried like I thought he was exceptional. Like Fry being Fried, he makes difficult saves look easy and like Marcus said, and he'll speak more of it, he just saves everything that he can't The goal was the only thing that he couldn't get his hands to, right the wall, everything else that he was challenged with in and around here. He made saves up until the eighty ninth and ninetieth minute to keep the team in it and get a point.

Yeah, the injury time save, you know, top corner that he was able to deflect out als go on top corner, you know, it just didn't have enough pace on it to beat him. Right, He's able to take one two steps push off, make a really good.

Say great save.

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No great question, I think Unfortunately, I think the injury makes it a bit simpler. I think you can go back into a four to two three one, especially at home. The interesting thing will be, I know Saint Louis has traditionally, especially for this season, played a back five, So they've been very defensively focused. But I think at home you can push it a bit a four to two.

Three to one.

I think you're able to get your your players on that need to with Mashassi at the point, Russnack behind it heyesus, Dela Vega and then your two holders in Ovid and rolled on and then you're back four from New Who to Jay Mark, kim kahe and you can even go Alex or Klannie. But that gets you into more of your traditional preferred lineup, especially coming home.

If you're asking me lineups, it's always going to be the same answer, four two four two.

I mean, like when one thing that you can do here, you know four four two, which I think is a legitimate thought, is to then put Hayesu's up top next to Mazovsky and allow Haysus to kind of play off Mazosky and kind of you have a very different type of players and allow I mean, the original thought this season was a four four two with Morris playing and Farrah playing off of each other. You can have Farra

Yeah, and then you can I mean I love the four four two because you could have two out and out forwards, right, you can have one sitting in low if he wants to come back get the ball. But that that's dictated by the players and what they like to do, right, And you know so much we're like, we're trying to dictate what what's going to happen in

I mean that makes sense too, because what you could do is you can put Christian Roldana on the right to play, you know, a higher line than his brother. You have dala Vega on the left, you have Rus Snack and obd Vargas, you know, and you can even form a diamond there in the middle if you you know, put one up, one back. It's it's all there, James,

I mean, the four two three one can easily shift into the four four two. Yeah numbers right, that's higher and it and it is that. But for me, the solid area of the four two three one is what essentially won the group the conker Caft Championship. You know what, It's just it's just one of the that's been tested and proven with your double pivots, and then you can form, you know, in possession, out of possession, you can you

Three three four two three.

One, starting look about the framework and then, but you're trying to get your best players. Yeah, that's then you're trying to you have one like what do you traditionally liked it? And be in And I'll say, okay, four three three four to two three one. Last year we were in a four three three. We may be shifting to fit our players get our players onto the field. So you're right, so it's always player centric as well,

You sure you don't want to give any other material to Mid Lakes or Seattle Junction.

They'll see plenty of our games, looking forward to that. All good groups, all good teams.

Anything else we want to talk about for tonight or from next week. We're good.

I'm excited to see him back home.

Yeah, excited back home. It's a good point. I think it's good when we're disappointed that we don't get the three. But all in all, we said, yeah, the guys will be in the in the in the locker room, they'll get cleaned up, they'll get back to the hotel. What have your get on the flight, and it's a point. Wipe your hands and you get on with it, and you're at home next week, all right, and the sun's out in shadow.

Yeah, there is turning and we're seeing this team now, you know, win, win, draw, coming home to face Saint Louis. I'm gonna go spend forty five minutes on my drive home cursing the name Alexis ta Silva. And that will do it for our show tonight. Thank you to everybody with the broadcast. Great job tonight from Danny Jackson and Kellan Rowe on the call. Our broadcast producer Keey Dunning here on the board, Mitchell bl James Riley, Marcus Hannaman here, on pre half post.

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