Welcome to the Sounders FC postmatch 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 the great three points at home for your Seattle Sounders,
a one nothing win here at Looming Field over Minnesota United. And for your Sounders it is a goal from Albert Russnack that gets it done in the seventy ninth minute of throwing from Alex rolled On, flipped back from Freddie Monterell and Russnack into the bottom left corner for the Sounders goal there in the second half. It is a one nothing Sounders win over Minnesota. Welcome in to the postmatch show. Jackson Felts alongside Pete viewing Diego Audio will join us here
in just a little bit to break it all down. In a moment, we'll head down to the field and here from the goal scorer Albert or maybe we won't hear a little bit, but listen, this was This was a good profession no win from your Sounders, a day where they had a number of a number of good things go right. And let's head down to the field now Albert Russnack with Michelle k. Thank you Jackson. Albert, First of all, congratulations out only on the win, but picking up your first
goal of the season. Walk me through the build up to that beautiful goal. I'm not sure I think we had to throw in or something and uh, um it was a good a good set from Freddie. You know, I'm sure he saw me there and uh, yeah the ball, the ball just sat perfectly for a for a shot and you know, I'm happy to win in and uh and we got the three points because that's the most important and it was a beautiful strike. What do you think worked well for your
squad tonight? Um? You know, teams come here and and uh and defend and play counter attacking, uh soccer, and it's not always easy to break them down. And uh, you know, we struggled a little bit in our first half. We did keep possession, but it didn't really threaten them in behind. Um. And you know, I think with the with Jordan coming in, uh, you know, he offers more of a threat to go behind, and we were just able to create a little bit more
and you know, one of them chances went in and that's all. It took today. You know, it's still very early on in the season, but given the root disappointing result last weekend in Portland, how important was coming back and getting a win this week to kind of right the ship. Yeah, well, we kept saying the whole week it's a it's not a must win game. Was there early in a season for a must win games?
But I think that was the coaching staff, you know, trying to not put too much pressure on us after that performance last week, But we as players, deep down knew that this is a must win game. We must answer um after that loss in Portland and especially coming back home. You know, this is a place that that teams don't want to come to and and in terms of that, we have to take it our results and we've been doing that so good U so far. On that note, you guys are
now four oh in one this season at home. Coach said the goal this season obviously was to make this place a fortrait, to continue to make it a place where other teams did not want to come and play. How do you keep that momentum going? Yeah, Well, it's you know, it's it's it's not easy, but it's also something that that it's a good kind of pressure. I would say, you know, to keep something going and you know, to keep an unbeaten street going on. And still haven't considered
at home. You know, I'm sure at some point in the season we will concede here. Um. And you know, I always say when we win, we can be too high, so when we lose, we don't get too low. And it's just you know, season, a season as a marathon, is not a spurt. First time in club history that you guys have had five scoreless results or clean sheets, I should say five clean sheets in club history in a row. Is this club off to do amazing things and set some records this year? I mean, that's what we want
to do. Um. We'st early in a season too to be talking about records, but it's definitely something that you know, we want to We want to win the Supporter Shield. I think that's the first thing that we can win. And you know, now it's an Open Cup game, which is as important as an MLS game on Wednesday, So you know, we take every game serious and whatever we competition we're in, we're trying to go all the way. Albert I appreciate the time so much again. Congratulations not only
on the goal but the big three points tonight. Thanks for time. Thank you so much, Jackson. I'll send it back to you. Thanks Michelle. Great stuff down there on the side with Albert Rusnack, and he is Toyota's man of the match. Your local Toyota dealers are proud to present tonight's
man of the match. Great stuff there from Albert Rusnack. If we're bucking, get back to the booth here at Looming Field, Jackson Felts and Pete Viewing and Pete you know, Michelle, you know brilliantly asked, asked Albert about that home record. I didn't even know about that. Five straight. We haven't given up a goal at home. I mean, Brian Schmitzer came into this season and he talked about making this place a fortress. Again they sure have. Well he doesn't like the word fortress, No he doesn't.
But because but because that's RSL's nicknames for theirs, just that we gotta figure out the Caldron, whatever you want to call it. But nonetheless, it's this building right now. Let's up to a good start in twenty twenty three club. Yeah, it's four wins and then the tie with LAFC zero zero tie here, so it's terrific. I thought they played really well. To quote, the guys in the booth next to us, Sean Henderson and the
director of scouting workmanlike performance, Craig Wible, the GM academic. They came in and you know, before the Portland game they talked about the possession and the patients, and we saw it tonight. It was a very clinical win. I feel bad for Minnesota because that's now eight games that they you know, they're O and eight here in Seattle. Adrian's a good man, their head coach, Adrian Heath, and but man, they have a hard time
here. But that was a clinical performance from the Sounders. Everybody played well. Stephen Fry did his job, didn't have a lot to do, but it was certainly clean. The back four was really good. Kellen Row good for him, Jackson, Reagan and Gomez and Drotti stepped really hard to the ball when they needed to. They were good on the ball. Alex Roldan was high up the field and just really performed well. I was really pleased
with the subs as well, the guys coming in. When Morris came in, it was like they just turned a switch on and all of a sudden, and they were good about getting him the ball, and he came in with purpose, uh and an energy. And I think he came in about the sixty fifth minute in Montero, Freddy Montero. You know he gets in there on that that play was a throw into Freddy Montero. He got big
and strong. Uh. You know, he's not a big guy. He's probably a good five eight nine maybe, but he was big and strong, posted up, laid that ball back. Rusnick. You know what, You'll want your big time players to do big time things in big time games. And and maybe this isn't a big time game. It's early in the season, but it was though, because you had to after what happened last week.
This was a massive It was only to say just say that last twenty minutes, we're racing that three points a year eraces that that last I mean, I forget who that team was that we played last week. I got you now. I think you're right. We needed to come away with that. You know, you and I were chatting during the game, and there was a moment it really did. At the sixty fifth minute, Seattle took it up a notch. Yeah, there was Queen the forty fifth and the
sixty fifth minute. Those twenty minutes in the second half, you'll worried that Seattle was going to give up a goal and it was going to be a little bit of what we saw last year, so you wanted to put it away. And they did a great job. And I was the subs I thought were good Tillan Tevis was really good. He was smart. It was good at keeping possession of the ball, kept it in the corner to kill the clock. And yeah, as as Sean said, you know, workman
like performance and as Craig said, just academic. Good for them, and Brian has to be very pleased. They were just solid everywhere around. And again I thought kell Kellen Levan he played for me in nineteen eighty nine. Sorry, kell and Rowe, he'll be thrilled he got his name on the radio. Kell and Rowe I thought was really good. They were just good all around and good for Albert and then moving the way they did right bringing in the players. We talk about what a difference of week makes all of
a sudden you lose three four guys. But Brian's movement of you know, putting Jordan onto the left and side when they when they took Chew out. Yeah, some of those movements I thought, you know, in the substitutions were great. You know, Montero Teva is going to the right, Morris switching to the other side. So I was I was really pleased, really happy for the team, and I feel bad for Here's what's gonna happen though, This is that Adrian is a really good guy and Brian and he will
sit down have a glass of wine. But that has to be miserable. Seattle has had some wins over Minnesota. There was one in Minnesota that we scored two goals in the last couple of minutes will Bruin and they and one of them wasn't pretty and it was we stolen. And so we didn't steal this one the night good win from the sound we did not. Indeed, that's three points for years Sounders, that one nothing win over Minnesota and Sounder
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We're gonna take a break, We'll come back, continue to break this thing down. It's a one nothing win for your Sounders. Lots of good things that we saw tonight here at Louminfield. More next on Sports Radio nine fifty KJR, AM, that's right, taking care of business. You're hearing that because the Sounders have won one nothing the final over Minnesota tonight here at Louminfield. How did the Sounders get their goal? Well, it's time for
today's Emerald Queen Casino Play of the match. It's Albert Rusnack in the seventy ninth minute. Does it sound as half of the bulls? It comes in top of the bulls, Albert Rusnack strikes it in a doll fantastic strike from eighteen yards out by Albert Rusnack opens up his account for the season, and boy did they need that one. It sounds one Minnesota nil. They did indeed, Danny great call. The play of the match is presented by Emerald
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Jackson Felts and Pete viewing back here on the post match show. And Pete, you know, as we take in those comments that you had in the previous segment that you talked about when Sean and Craig made the comments about academic and workman like performances, and you know, going into this match, you know, walking into the building, like literally as I was walking into the room here, I saw the news that knew who was a late scratch due
to illness. Kellen Rowe has to step up on the shortest of notices, and you know, I think his performance, oh beed Vargas performance. There's a lot of those performances that really embody that that kind of the words of workmen and academic and the kind of brought the Sounders to once again not giving up a single goal. They've not given up a single goal in this house all year. But but it's those type of performances today that stood out about
those two words. Bill Belichick, with a New England Patriots says, do your job. Everybody did their job today. It was great, Road did a really good job. JP ninety minutes of just quality and tough, picked off a lot of passes. The young kid man, oh Bed, you know, I think there's a really good chance we'll see him go into the U twenties, right, and I think that's gonna probably happen. Tevis got in his ninth MLS game today and did a good job. Alex Willdon was,
he's a pro. He was really good. And uh Jackson Reagan, I mentioned this, you know, but Reagan and h Gomez and drawing, they stepped hard to the ball when they needed to. And yeah, I was good. I was. And Freddy Montero, you know, say what you want about Freddy Montero. He knows what he's good at, and he knows what his job is. When he gets in there and he gets big and he gets strong, it goes down when he needs to if he gets
fouled. He can draw fowls like Niko Kim. Nico was good, but I don't think Nico was as dominant as I had hoped he would be but everybody around him really picked up the slack. But again, you know, you can never count Nico out. He's always going to be dangerous. And it was a really really good performance. Everybody did their job, and like I said, the subs coming in, yeah, I thought that was good doing. Chew. I thought Brian Schpenzer did a good thing by leaving him
in at halftime. I thought he could have gone to Jordan Morris, but I don't think psychologically that would have helped him. So Chew put in a really good sixty five minutes plus and its good. And then again Albert Roseneck to get his first goal of the year. That is important. You don't want to rely on just Jordan Morris to you know, get all the goals you need. You need to spread it around a little bit and that gets him going as well. It does indeed. Now it was a great performance
all around by everybody. Everybody was a plus today in the book because the Sounders get a one nothing win over Minnesota and fans there's still time to join the Sounders FC family. With a twenty and twenty three season membership. Members enjoy access to take a pre sales pro shop discounts and invites to exclusive events. Secure your membership today by visiting Sounders FC dot com at slash Memberships.
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coming up for your Sounders. There is a busy, busy next seven days ahead. We'll tell you all about the two games coming up for the Sounders next on Sports Radio at nine fifty KJR AM. Welcome back to the postgame show from Luminfield, Jackson, Felts P Viewling and Ay, we got Diego audios coming in here for the final few seconds here and I'll tell you you
know, we'll talk about what's coming up for the Sounders. In just a moment, I'll quickly tell you that additional tickets have just been made available for the double header match day coming up on June third. Sounders are facing Portland Timbers at one thirty. This is, by the way, all at lumin Field one thirty on June third, and then after that at five o'clock ol
Rain and Portland Thorne's kickoff here at Emerald Queen Casino Pitch at Luminfield. So, as I was mentioning, additional tickets have been made available for this marquee matchup. Given all of the high demand for this secure you receipts today by visiting soundersfc dot com slash tickets now in the more immedia. Looking ahead to what's next, it's a busy week for your Sounders Quickly on MLS. Sounders will play an MLS game a week from tonight down in Sandy, Utah at
Rail Salt Lake. That's gonna be a six thirty pm kickoff Pacific time next Saturday, the twenty ninth. You can watch the match via MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app. I'll also tell you that you can listen to the match right here Sports Radio nine fifty KJR AM right here. Next Saturday, the Providence Swedish premout show will begin at six pm, so just an hour earlier from what we've been doing here, So to an hour earlier.
They're a Providence Swedish premount show six pm, kickoff six thirty Sounders at Salt Lake. Now. In addition to that, they also play the Open Cup that's gonna be over at Starfire against San Diego Loyal SC coming up this Wednesday, So make sure to head out a star Fire for always amazing atmospheres when the Open Cups down there. Sounders recent history in the Open Cup has not been great, so we hope and we expect that to change this coming Wednesday.
But Diego, it's a busy, busy week aheaded for the club with a midweek match and Open Cup and then and we'll see what kind of why Brian Spencer throws out and then another MS match on the road on Saturday. Yeah. No, I think especially after this win, it gives him some room for breathing right. And then they have this this important game in the Open Cup, and even branch Mets are mentioned it to us during the production meeting that this is an important game that they want to go ahead and win.
He's gonna put a lineup that's going to really compete and want to show why the Sounders are one of the favorites for this tournament, even though as you said, lately hasn't been you know, the results. They want it, but I think they have to think about the next game that would be the Open Cup and then think about the game on the weekend. But I think it's important result. And they have some players on rotation that they could
definitely bring in for the Open Cup game. Yep, you know. I won't give names, but Brian mentioned a few players that want to be on the Open Cup from this first team that played tonight, that they want to do it. They haven't had a in you were saying, Jackson in five years in the US Open Cup Portland back at Starfire, Yeah, and it feels like a long time. We've got four trophies and those are great games down there that I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna go as a fan,
and uh, I'm looking forward to it. And I've coached in an Open Cup game against the Sounders with kids at Pumas round of sixteen and it is an awesome experience. And I think the Sounders kind of miss it and they'd like to. Hey, they're going to open a new facility, the Long Acres UH Facility. They like to put another big Cup in there, so you can feel that they're getting serious about it. I think Brian even said he didn't realize it's been five years, so it's time to get back on
that I think Champions League had taken a lot of their attention. But it'll be a fun one. And for the fans to be that close, I mean, it's kind of a it's a pretty special venue at Starfire to go watch a game. So let's get after it with a Landa Donovan. You're gonna see him personally. You can be, you know, ten twenty feet away from that guy on the bench, and let's not do that. I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure. I few fans will just because the
Galaxy days. Sure, yeah, that's fair enough. But that'll be a fun game. I'm looking forward to it. Hope the weather is good, Yes, hope the weather is good, right, I think it is. This week should be seen great weather. So if you haven't yet make your plans get out to Starfire on Wednesday evening for Sounders in the Open Cup against San Diego Loyal. Should be a fun match and hopefully we see a strong lineup in the first Sounder win in the Open Cup in quite a while.
And then in addition to that, obviously we'll be back on here for Saturday's match down there at Salt Lake. Well, want to thank everybody with the broadcast tonight here in the booth. Lloyd Keiley, thank you for keeping everything on the rails back at KJR Anders and Jacob Waldo, thank you so much for your work back there, Diego Pete, thank you for being the best in the business. Great stuff today from Danny Jackson and Steve Zakwani and Michelle
Ludka having the play by play, color analyst and and sideline reporting. Great interview down there. In case you missed the start of the postgame show, go out and check out the podcast. Albert Russknack joined Michelle Ludka right there after the win, your man in the match and goal score, joining Michelle to talk about his goal and the win tonight. Jackson Feldts here saying thank you so much for listening. Once again here from Loominfield the Sounders winning one
nothing over Minnesota United. We will talk to you on Tuesday over on ninety three point three FM for Sounders Weekly. No broadcast here for nine fifty ninety three point three four the Sounders Open Cup match, but we'll be back on this station nine to fifty on Saturday for Sounders in RSL, so we will talk to you for all that here in the busy week ahead. Have a good week, everybody, have a good night once again, Sounders winning tonight here at Luminfield over Minnesota. Take care of everybody.