Welcome to the Sounders FC post match show. Sounders FC Sucker is brought to you by Providence, Swedish official healthcare partner of Seattle Sounders FC. The Sounders FC post match Show starts now. Well. Seattle's scoring drought at home is over. The Sounders score and the Sounders win. It is a one nothing final scorer for the Sounders tonight here at Loumanfield over Houston. Let's head down to the field and hear from the goal score. Albert Rusnack with Michelle Letka.
Thank you Jackson. Albert, First of all, congratulations on the win, our lone goal scorer in this one, your second of the season. Walk me through that play that ended up being the deciding factor in this one. I mean, you know that was dangerous on outside. He puts you know, many good crosses in a game, and it's a similar situation like in a first half, got the defender got the better of me, and this one you know, came, you know, right to my path.
Yeah, it was an easy finishing then all the work you'd almost done before that, this one seemed more emotional then some of the matches we've seen lately from you guys. What was so frustrating about this one. Well, the first training is the last couple of results and you know, especially haven't been a you know, scoring goals as a team. You know, we've been defending pretty good as a team. The attacking side was a bit lacking in the last couple of games. And uh, yeah, it was just a
relief of getting our win. You know, the whole month of Junior know, we didn't we didn't get a win. Um. And the last win here was against Red Boy it was in May, if I'm right. So you know it was a big relief, you know, to get the win and three points because you know, we're aware of the results that are happening in the league, teams below us, you know, trying to catch up and they and they did already. Um and yeah, this this win, you know, means we we won the series against Houston, who are right
below us. Your spot on your last one win was at the end of May. Here, what does that do to the team's mentality mindset moving forward? Now that you've gotten kind of another win and a big three points on your belt, well it's something to build upon. You know. Another another clean sheef of the team, which is which is great. You know, credit mainly to to our defense and and staff and you know, I know three four goals would have been you know, ideal and everybody would be happy.
But you know one means three points as well, and it's something to build upon. We have two road games, um before the League's Cup, you know, and and playing on road this is a little bit tougher than playing at home. So you know we need to take the positive from tonight's game into the role games. How much does the tempo of this match change with that ejection? I mean it changed, It changed in our favor. I thought, you know, they were wasting time just as any team does
on the road. You know, they were playing a smart game. You know, their goalie try to waste times as well whenever he could, um, you know, every there was a lot of breakup playing at games as well, you know, many yellow cars, many fouls, and you know, we want to play high temple at the at home and we weren't allowed to do that, you know, up until the red card, which we really could you know, throw more numbers forward and press them a little bit
more. So Yeah, it definitely worked in our favor. You got a week now to get some more training under your belt before you guys held up North for a Cascadia Cup rivalry match against Vancouver. Over any positives from this one you're gonna take with you kind of as you gear up for that one. Yeah, as I said, you know, it starts with defendant. If we if we if we can get a clean sheet on the road, you know what that means. We only need one goal to score to win
the game. And I think you know this group has definitely quality to score more than one goal a game. You know, we just have to bring us so, as you said, one week off training and uh and yeah we should. We should be ready for my people. Albert, thank you so much for the time. Congratulations on the win and the beautiful bull.
Thank you so much. Jackson'll sent it to you. Thanks Michelle. Let's Michelle, Let get down there with tonight's goal scorer, Albert russnack s Seattle get the win one nothing the final score tient over Houston to pick up right where he left off. As we begin the postgame show, Jackson felts James Riley Pete feeling here in the booth reacting to the Sounders win. That is the Sounders eleventh clean sheet of the year. MLS team record is seventeen,
six away from that. MLA started for a single goalkeeper is sixteen. Stephen Fry five away from that. With thirteen games left to play. This is an elite defensive team. They are continuing to look like get and records are within reach. But it is a goal from Albert Russnack that gets the Sounders there. Win tonight. A lot to break down here, let's just start with the initial reactions from the win tonight. Be viewing, Well, I
like that shut out record you just talked about. I thought Steph deserved to be in the All Star Game. Wayne Rooney is coaching, and he took his his player former Seattle sound Yeah, so that and that's fine, but I think I think it would be a nice I'm sure Steph would rather have that record and the team do well than playing the All Star Game, but it's kind of a nice reminder that he's having a great season. He came
up really big the ball to cross into the box. He had to hold onto it and went hard, didn't bail out of it in anyway, and so he did a nice job. He's good with his feet, tonight, and I'm happy to see him get another shut out, but boy, James would be it'd be nice to get two goals, right. But they looked like the old Sounders once they got the well granted they had the man advantage, but then moving the ball around. It's nice to see and good to
see JP kind of pulling strings. And and we said before the game, riostneck in that position, sitting underneath the forward, Kenny creates something that's probably his best use on the field, I bet, in his probably favorite position. So for him to get the goal coming in a little bit late,
trailing in behind RUI das. We needed to see something like that. And I think you know the old adage, you know, defenseman's championship, so to you know, to go along with that shut out, you know, streaking up eleven, I mean incredible, honestly, And they didn't look too bothered today. Obviously a man down or a man up for you know, a majority of that second half. But for me to quietly get a result today where you don't, it doesn't need to be pretty, it doesn't need
be pleasant, doesn't need to be spect spectacular. It just needs to be result oriented. And that group did enough to get the job done, got the shut out, right, a boost for a Rui d Is and what he's gone through and even stuff like you know with Stephen that's a boost as
well. Guys in the locker room. You know, a college coach told me, David Ivich said, you know, you don't need to make all tournament teams in this and that when you have the respect of the locker room and they know what you bring to the table, that's all you need. And Steph certainly has a respect of this locker room in the city, this club. They know he should be an All star, but then again, he'd rather get the clean sheet done here, stay with the team, continue
the momentum and build from there. So tremendous positives from this evening, absolutely so. I mean yeah, defensively and for a night where a by so Soco has to get the start in place of Jackson Reagan who's on yellow card accumulation suspension, ab Sosoco comes in, does a solid job, just comes
in, does a job, gets the work done. Sitting next to Yamar Gomez Andrade and for them as a unit where you switch one part out, I mean, that's a that's a back line where not only is it Aby coming in for Jackson, but Cody Baker's him for Alex Roldon as well. So this is a back line that's half changed from your normal four and still getting a clean sheet against a Houston team that they've won three out of the
last four. They beat l AFC twice. This is a good team, so to do it against them and to Dude at home and it's just it's fantastic. So again, eleven clean sheets on the year for the team, six away from the club record, and then five away from the individual goalkeeper record. It's just just a fantastic result tonight. And then going back to you know the goal of Pe you were talking about it there where Rusnak is
in this spot underneath it from the number ten spot underneath Raul. It's interesting because the way they've been playing, and we were texting about this with our board operator Andrew's first as well was the fact that Nico started the match on the right, Albert was on the left on that specific play, and then from there going forward they flipped Nico is then on the left, Albert's on the right, so Nico finds himself in that position to have the combination play
with Leo Chu who's able to find the premises, so cut it back to Rusnak who was over on the right in that moment and then stayed over on the right for the cutback and then boom goal. Good placement, good spacing, good positional awareness, and it results in a Sounder's goal. That was a very very good play there, and I'll take a wild guess that's gonna
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You are hearing taking care of business because finally, finally you're ce Ale. Sounders are back in the wind Callum at home, finally scored a goal at home. One nothing wins a night over the Houston Dynamo. It's time for today's Emerald Queen Casino Play of the Match. Here's how it happened. Albert Russknack from Leo Chew over the Fox to Leo Chew inside the folks at one two with La Dario tries to play back. That is Rusnack from six yards out. He was a cutback by Leo Chu and it was a goal ins
the upper roof of the net. Leo Chew with this eighth assist on the goal and he was Albert Rusnack for his second goal in the season. And what a vital goal for the sound is. It's gonna be sound as one Dynamo nil and the Play of the Match is presented by Emerald Queen Casino,
the betting capital of the Northwest and the entertainment capital of the Northwest. As the Sounders score and win one nothing, and let's talk about that play more in specifically the build up to it, because you know, when we were talking in the break again with andrews Hurst, who's back on the board at Jr. And saying that Michelle Ludke had reported from the sideline that Brian Schmitzer had said a few minutes before that goal, she heard Brian tell Nico and
Albert to flip and Nico to go over on the left of that number ten, Albert's go over on the right. Things opened up and that kind of worked out. So let's kind of talk about it and James, you know what we were kind of just going over in the break about how that movement exactly could benefit the Sounders and why Brian Schmenzer decided to make that move there,
and what was it about the sixty fourth minute? Certainly the frameworks there, so for a coach to make that decision, Spenser's you know, very well seasoned experience. It just gives the defense a different look. That's it. So you don't need to change. It doesn't need to be a drastic
change. It's a one degree shift. Let's give you know, get guys on their dominant foot instead of playing more inverted they play true right, and it just gives the defense a different look, gives the attack something new, something fresh to get into. So that shift, you know, is very good. They used to do it. We used to do it all the time. I mean in the league you would just slightly shift your wingers, give the defense a different look, at the offense, a little um different,
you know, kick in into momentum. And then obviously it worked wonders for the siders tonight. I think it's also a little shot of confidence for Niko. I don't think he views it as a demotion, but that was his spot where Albert Rusneck is now and that's probably not permanent. But it's a little thing from a head coach to a captain saying, hey, go back in there, or do what you do, and so it's a little confidence and a little lift for him as well. As James said it is.
You know, if you've been marking Rusnak and all of a sudden you can't find him and Niko's in there, it may lose him. So it did open things up. But I think the strategy for Brian is, hey, I still believe in you, right, go in and do something special. And hey, they got the goal a couple of minutes later, and that gives you, know you just talked about, if your teammates in the locker room know you can do it, it gives you don't care if you're
on the All Star team. I think people you know, Niko's been leading this team for a long time, so to give him that opportunity again, smart move, good man management. They were up a man at that point where they went up a man up in the sixty fourth minute when Michael Dosantos got his second yellow card, so he was sent off for tripping Callen Rowe. So whether that's a product of the Sounders playing a man up is an
interesting question that we'll see come next weekend against Vancouver. If Brian starts the game with Nico in his traditional spot, Albert off to the right, or the way they started this game when it was eleven B eleven. So we'll see how things shake out come next weekend against Vancouver. We'll talk about that match coming up in a little bit. Well, it's night's Toyota, the man of the match for US. I think we have to have a conversation
about this because you could say Albert Russnach for the goal. You could say Stephen Fry for the clean sheet. I thought that knew who had a good day. Oh bit Varius had a good day. Well, let's go around the room and kind of nominate choices because I think a lot of players tonight had pluses by their name. I don't know if any single player had two pluses, but I think there's a large handful of players tonight that get pluses
by their name for quality, quality performances. Absolutely. I mean, you know, I thought JP had a great game, just just solid in there. But you know, goals change game. So if I it was my vote, it would go to Roostknack because you know, goals change games. It's not easy to score goals. That's probably why I never was that far up the field. I played a defender. But goals change games, especially when yeah, thank you, thank you, So that would be my vote.
But you're right, it was a good, solid team performance overall. Right, Guys just did their job, got the job done. Guys that were you know, brought in to Phil Spots, came in, got plugged right in, next man up mentality, and it continued. That's when you know you have a good team culture, you're you're in a good spot,
and that clean sheet thing again is so tremendous. But to get a one zero result at home where it's like we it didn't feel like we were straining to get it right, which just felt like a nice, clean, smooth win um which was exceptional. So Rusnack would get my vote, but certainly pluses by by a lot of players on the field tonight. Yeah, very businesslike win, yes tonight. You know, I looked up Obit's birthday. It's August fifth. He'll be eighteen, seventeen year old, going and doing
back. Yeah. No, it's great. And he tries things which I like, and Cody Baker tries things which I like for these young kids. I also love the fact that and it's the pros. I get it. But but they trust each other. Right, So Nico gets the ball and you know, Cody Baker's going forward and Nico plays it to him, and I I've been on teams where you go, no chance, Yeah you don't get it. I'm not giving you the ball, right, I might have
been one of those guys that wasn't getting the ball. But but it just as impressive to me that the guys that just the confidence they have in a seventeen year old. What's Cody Baker? Is he eighteen? Has he had eighteen yet? I know he's not seventeen, so maybe he's eighteen or nineteen, but you know, just to see and Cody Baker got stuck in on the tackle. I agree with you everybody. It's a good point, Jackson. Maybe not two pluses. Had Rooseneck hit the shot two minutes after he
scored the goal, Yeah, he got two pluses. Cody Baker's nineteen, by the way, But yeah, I mean there's a lot of young players playing like veterans out there. Yeah, really good performances and playing next to veterans who trust him. You know, to see JP and Vargas together, you know, it's it's a dad and his kids and Griffy junior Ken Griffy Senior out there. Sorry, JP, but but I yeah, today was a good, solid, business like performance. And then the good news is,
you know, Vancouver, I think it's in ninth place. San Jose's a little couple down there in fifth place, I think. And so they've got some games now coming up on the road. They've got some games that can keep them locked higher up the table. And you said, LA lost, you lost at Dallas. That's great, that's great. So that's good
news that I think we're tied now point wise with Los Angeles. Yes, they had the edge on points per game, so they've only they've got two less games played, so right, So yeah, considering I think we came into this game two wins in eleven. Considering we're you know, sitting at their place, that's a good sign. That's a good sign for the team. And they're just hopefully get some of these guys back and and tonight Ruy Diaz he had a couple of chances, but you could see when he came
off the bed and she was off the field, he was frustrated. But I think that goes part and parcel with I want to score today, you know, so not frustrated, more of themselves. And but that's a good win, that's a happy what's the locker room like, James, you've been in. It's good. It's like you said, it's a business like performance. And then it's on to the next Enjoy the win this evening, celebrate your wins together. But again then the preparation starts for the next one,
could you want to keep this momentum. And I think the fact that they got the job done tonight essentially without four starters, right, you have the yellow Carter accumulation with Reagan, you have the three guys away on national team duty. But the good thing is they're all healthy. So you want that you promote, You're like, all great, you know, good for you. We have guys that can step in, get the job done, and
then you welcome them back, you know, open arms. And then you have guys that have proven themselves right in battle, so they'll be ready when their names are called. But I again, business like performance. It was great, great analogy there, and I think that that is exactly what described
tonight's victory. Well. On paper, tonight Tonight's Toyota man of the Match, it sounds like it's Albert Russ snack, but I think for us, it's it's a shared a group effort tonight, just a great businesslike group effort. Your local Toto dealers are proud to present tonight's man or, as we say, men of the match in this great business like performance. A one nothing win over Houston Sounders FC. Soccer is presented by Provid and Swedish official
healthcare partner of Sounders. F see, we'll come back and we'll talk about what's next for Seattle. It is a road trip, it is a Darby. We'll tell you all about it next on the postmatch show following a one nothing win on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFF. Welcome back to the Looman Field and we're Casino Pitch played host Tonight's to a Sounders one nothing win
tonight over the Houston Dynamo. Albert Russ snack your goal, score second goal of the year and the Sounders pick up their eleventh clean sheet of the year. That's six off the MLS team record, five off of the MLS keeper record, So Stephen Fry five away from that with thirteen games to play. Outstanding defensive efforts and good to see Albert get that goal. Well, it's
time to take a look at what's next very quickly for your Sounders. They will play one week from tonight up in Vancouver, BC at BC Place up there in Canada. It'll be a seven o'clock prominent Swedish premat show and a seven thirty kickoff. You can listen to that match right here. Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM. You can also watch the match via MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app or listen in Spanish language on l ray
at thirteen to sixties. So rivalry match against Vancouver coming off of a win, I mean, you know at June where the Sounders got three draws and a loss. James, we're starting off the month of July right, teams should be feeling good. We'll see what happened with Kellen Rose injury, but you know, other than that, you know your starterings, you're starting eleven healthy. Coming out of this game should set up for the Sounders to have
another good performance north of the border. It really should. And I think, you know an observation that coach made, you know, with ruy Das coming off frustrated is good. I thought it teetered to the line where it was good frustrated where's he gets frustrated if he doesn't score. You want your goal scorer to be that way. And he's been known to come alive in
big games. So I look for him to have another, you know, solid week of training and another standout performance because he really does come alive in big games. I thought, I thought Nico Laedara was buzzing today, could have had one late in the game there on his favorite left foot, put it high. But I think once you have that engine, JP had a great performance, Jamar, you know, a great performance Steph and Fry. The spine of your team is intact. Yeah, and performing well right,
Galvin nights everyone else here left and right. So I look for that that match to be very good one. And again Vancouver is very good. Vancouver is capable of scoring goals, putting on a show as well. So I expect it to be a very fierce rivalry game. Yeah, it's and it's a tough place to play, honestly, it's the surface there can be a little bit yeah, walky, I guess there's a way to say that.
I always feel like that one in Montreal, their turf, when they play on the turf versus the grass up there, it can be a little bit of a tough place to play. So, but you're right, and it is funny how that little change putting Nico in the middle of the field gives him the keys to the car again, and so that makes it right and
then they get the win out of that. And now won't it be fun if the Sounders can notch another thing in their belt of records, which is to get to the sixteen shutouts for Steph and the guys would love to do
that for Steph and Fry especially. You know, when you do get a little bit of a snub, you know, Wayne Rooney taking his own goalkeeper, Okay, that's fine, but also to not have Gomez and Dry or knew Who, Like none of those three went to the George Morris is the team's only All Star and like I asked knew Who yesterday, like your defense is leading the league in clean sheets and none of you are at the All
Star Game. It gives your power. Though you feel snubbed at all, and I knew Who said all the right things, but it's kind of like, come on, like Wayne Rudy, come on, dude, Like the Sounders are the best defensive team in MLS and for you not to take any of you know, those guys, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous, but it
is. It is motivating. It We were at the yeah, yeah, we were at the Final four two thousand and four, and they announced the All Americans the night before the first game, and we had some guys that you know, we're the same same situation. We had given up eleven goals all season, we had lost and we had one first team All American and our goalie was just facts. Yeah, but it's motivating and then it gives
you a little bit of a rally cry. So and I think honestly beating this team today one zero, knowing they were one seven and two, coming in knowing that we had helped some teams that were down their luck on the road as they were, uh, that's a very good thing as well. So yeah, I liked what you said, James. Somebody's just got to get the win and get it, get it done and onto the next It's a thirty four game season and sometimes you're playing three games in eight days and
you've got to grind through them. I do like that we're on the West Coast for the next two with this one in San Jose, with Vancouver San Jose, it just kind of gives us a little bit of breathing room, right And and the fact that now I know we're tied with LA on points and I know they have two games in ahead of us. But I think if you ask Brian Schmitzer, you're gonna have the month that you've just had, but you're gonna be in the third place. Would you take it?
Oh yeah, a heart, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. And then again it goes back when you set up the month of July. You put your targets there so that the group has a target of number of points they want to accomplish in July. Now it's now. Then now it's time to go execute on that reverse engineer. So certainly they have it say, Okay, we got through you know, maybe not not so great month, but we're still in this a good spot. We still have
this clean sheet record, we still have guys healthy. You know, there's take the positives with it. Now, let's set our targets for July in games and points that we want to in and then now let's go out and execute that. That's what motivates the group. And there are three points here into July. Three points tonight with the one nothing win over Houston. Pete
viewing James Rally. Great stuff from both you, gentlemen. James, congratulations on making it through the twenty six V two at halftime without picking up an injury. UM Shane, Shane, you couldn't get the win though three nothing fortunate. That was a formidable foe. They were fantastic. I gotta be honest, Saw, I said, I thought you had lost though. Hey, those kids came out, one of them did the Ronaldo celebration like twice.
How old were they? Five six? They were twenty twelves, twenty twelve and twenty fifteens, ten years old and going out there meeting James Rally and Brad Evans. How about that? Uh, great stuff by you, both of you, gentlemen today, Danny Jackson, Michelle because Steve Zaka wanting great job from them on the call, Andrew's first back running everything at our KJR studios. Terry Ryan here on side, Keiley Dunning keeping it all on
the rails as our broadcast producer. Want to thank all of them and thank all of you for listening here tonight. Sounders once again getting the win tonight here at lumin Field by a score of one to nothing. And again we'll talk to you coming up next Saturday, seven o'clock Providence. Weis pre match seven thirty kickoff. Sounders are in Vancouver. Hope to see you all up there at BC Place. It'll be exciting to be up there in Canada,
so look forward to seeing a bunch of Sounder fans up there. No Sounders Weekly coming up this week on KJR. I'm about to head on vacation. Go celebrate this Sounders win. All of you. Have a wonderful and safe July fourth. Everybody, be very very safe here for the fourth coming up, celebrate accordingly and hope to see you all up in BC Place in Vancouver next Saturday. Have a good evening everybody. Once again from Luminfield, Sounder is getting a one to nothing win. We'll talk to you next week.
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