Seattle Sounders FC vs. Sporting Kansas City October 27, 2016 · CenturyLink Field
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4 Sounders FC Central 6 Match Preview 8 Storylines 10 Team Rosters 12 MLS Playoff Info 15 Lodeiro – A Proven Winner
18 One Game To Rule Them All 22 Sounders FC Looks for Clean Slate after Previous Losses to Sporting Kansas City 25 2016 Season Stats 27 The NINETY
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After concluding the 2016 MLS regular season with a 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake on Decision Day, Sounders FC begins the 2016 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs Thursday evening in the Knockout Round against Sporting Kansas City on the Xbox Pitch at CenturyLink Field. The Rave Green embark on their eighth postseason campaign in eight years following a stellar 8-2-4 run to conclude the regular season under Interim Head Coach Brian Schmetzer. Sporting Kansas City clinched a postseason berth on Decision Day with a 2-0 home win over San Jose, leap-frogging Real Salt Lake into fifth place in the Western Conference. Seattle and Sporting have met twice already this season, with Sounders FC coming away with a loss in both matchups. Thursday’s match marks the first time the two sides have met in the playoffs.
DID YOU KNOW??? Jordan Morris is the first Sounders FC field player to appear in all 34 matches of a regular season? The Homegrown Player from Mercer Island made an epic splash in his first professional campaign, shattering the club’s rookie scoring record with 12 goals. That mark also ranks as the second-most by a rookie in league history, including the top output by an American rookie. Although his scoring prowess stole the headlines, it was his durability that sneakily could be more considered more impressive. He was one of just six field players in MLS to appear in each match in league play.
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The Seattle Sounders will host Sporting Kansas City on Thursday at CenturyLink Field (7 p.m. PT; FS1, UniMas, KIRO Radio 97.3 FM, El Rey 1360AM) in a Knockout Round game of the 2016 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs. Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know about the match. WHEN AND WHERE: Kickoff is at 7 p.m. PT at CenturyLink Field.
WHERE TO WATCH: The game
will be telecast on FS1 and UniMas. You can find a full list of Sounders FC Pub Partners here.
WHERE TO LISTEN: The game will air on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM and in Spanish on El Rey 1360AM. ALL-TIME HISTORY: The Sounders are 7-4-3 all time against Sporting KC, but have not defeated SKC since 2014. Sporting is 2-2-3 all time at CenturyLink Field including a 1-0 win in the 2016 season opener. The two teams have never met in the postseason. LAST MEETING: Sporting KC won 3-0 on July 24 in Kansas City behind a Dom Dwyer brace and a Jacob Peterson goal. That was the last match before the Sounders and longtime head coach Sigi Schmid parted ways and Brian Schmetzer was promoted interim head coach. PLAYOFF STREAKS ALIVE:
The Sounders and SKC each won on Decision Day to book their eighth and sixth consecutive postseason trips, respectively. The teams are two of only six in MLS history to earn at least six straight playoff berths. SKC have lost each of the past two years in the Knockout Round, while the Sounders have never failed to reach the conference semifinals, winning in the Knockout Round in 2013 and 2015.
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SCHMETZER SUCCESS: Since Schmetzer took the reins, Seattle has gone 8-4-2 and catapulted from ninth place in the Western Conference to hosting a playoff match, a remarkable turnaround from a team that had just 20 points from its opening 20 matches. IVANSCHITZ UNLIKELY:
Sounders midfielder Andreas Ivanschitz exited against the Houston Dynamo two weeks ago with a right knee sprain and has missed the last two matches. Schmetzer said last week that Ivanschitz would probably be unavailable for Seattle’s Knockout Round match.
KNOCKED OUT ROUND:
Sporting Kansas City will be playing in its third consecutive Knockout Round away match and has come up short in each of the past two seasons. SKC memorably fell to the eventual MLS Cup winners Portland Timbers last year when Saad Abdul-Salaam improbably hit both posts during a penalty kick shootout.
ROAD WOES: Sporting Kansas City only has three road wins this season, its lowest output since 2008. DWYER SITUATION: Forward Dwyer spearheads Sporting’s offense and has 16 goals this season, which is tied for fifth in MLS. He has four goals in his last six matches dating back to Sept. 9.
THE 200 CLUB: Sporting Kansas City defender and U.S. international Matt Besler recorded his 200th regular season MLS appearance in SKC’s win over the San Jose Earthquakes on Decision Day. He has three goals, 11 assists and has logged over 17,000 minutes in his eight-year career. DAVIS DONE: MLS veteran and Sporting KC midfielder Brad Davis
announced on Sunday his intention to retire at the end of the 2016 season. He’s played for five MLS teams over 15 years and is top 10 in league history in corner kicks (1st), assists (3rd), games played (4th), games started (tied-8th) and minutes played (10th). Davis, 34, is a two-time MLS Cup champion, a sixtime All-Star, an MLS Best XI (2011) and MVP runner-up (2011).
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MATCHDAY STORYLINES Radio Play-by-Play Commentator Matt Johnson tells you his three storylines to follow in this evening’s match vs. Sporting Kansas City. Do or Die Game The Sounders have been thriving on the do or die, make or break mentality so much that the playoffs should be hitting them at the exact moment. The team is 8-2-4 since Brian Schmetzer has taken the reigns and playing a relaxed style of possession-based soccer that has driven them to finish fourth in the Western Conference. The slight cause of concern were the two opportunities to clinch a spot vs. either Houston or Dallas, with those matches sandwiched around a couple wins vs. Vancouver and the season-ender vs. RSL. Some were quick to say that when the pressure was really on to clinch, the Sounders couldn’t seal the deal. Well, it happened vs. RSL and now the Sounders are the team that nobody wants to face.
Dom Dwyer and Benny Feilhaber These are the two that Sounders fans need to worry about the most. Dwyer once again has led Sporting in scoring with 16 goals. Two years ago Dwyer netted 22 and dipped to 12 last year. He finished the season third in the league in shots, fourth in shots on goal, third in multi-goal games, top 5 in fouls committed and fouls suffered, as well as fifth being called offside. He is EVERYWHERE. Not only does a defense need
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and loves to take over matches. A Sounders victory would go hand in hand with shutting these two out.
Different Sounders Team
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to know where he is at all times, but they must reduce the service to him, which comes in the form of Feilhaber. Benny has once again produced this year. Outside of his first year after coming over from New England, Feilhaber has been given the keys to the car and he has delivered. This year’s stats (seven goals and 13 assists) don’t quite stack up to last year’s (10 goals and 15 assists), but make no mistake, you must minimize his touches. He doesn’t shy away from contact
Sporting KC won both meetings this year against Seattle, but it’s tough to draw too much from either loss. If you remember way back to opening day, the Sounders were reduced to 10 men and Sporting relied on a long range shot from Nuno Andre Coelho’s to steal a 1-0 win. The tricky hop got by Stefan Frei and Seattle started the season with a loss. The next fixture was at Children’s Mercy Park with temperatures in the mid 90’s and humidity just as bad. What might be considered the low point of the season, the three-nil loss also marked the end of the Sigi Schmid era. From there, we know what has happened. The Rave Green ended the season on an 8-2-4 run and have qualified with a fourth-place finish in the Western Conference. Sporting finished the season with only three road wins on the year. With a win in their opener it’s easy to see that road victories were a challenge for them this year. Oh, and Nicolás Lodeiro had yet to join the squad.
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No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 29 31 33 39 80 91
Name Tyler Miller Clint Dempsey Brad Evans Tyrone Mears Jimmy Ockford Osvaldo Alonso Cristian Roldan Erik Friberg Herculez Gomez Nicolás Lodeiro Aaron Kovar Michael Farfan Jordan Morris Chad Marshall Dylan Remick Nelson Valdez Darwin Jones Nathan Sturgis Zach Scott Alvaro Fernandez Charlie Lyon Andreas Ivanschitz Stefan Frei Tony Alfaro Román Torres Damion Lowe Joevin Jones Oalex Anderson Victor Mansaray Oniel Fisher
Pos. Height Weight Age GK 6-4 195 23 F 6-1 170 33 D 6-1 170 31 D 5-11 163 33 D 6-1 185 24 M 5-11 155 30 M 5-8 165 21 M 5-11 154 30 F 5-9 161 34 M 5-7 150 27 M 5-10 155 23 M 5-19 160 28 F 6-0 185 22 D 6-4 190 32 D 6-0 165 25 F 5-10 160 32 F 5-10 175 24 M 5-10 160 29 D 5-11 175 36 M 6-1 159 31 GK 6-2 215 24 M 6-0 180 33 GK 6-3 195 30 D 6-2 190 23 D 6-2 195 30 D 6-3 175 23 D 5-11 160 25 F 5-8 155 20 F 5-11 180 19 D 5-9 155 24
No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 25 27 29 30 37 39 93 94
Name Jon Kempin Erik Palmer-Brown Ike Opara Kevin Ellis Matt Besler Paulo Nagamura Chance Myers Graham Zusi Diego Rubio Benny Feilhaber Brad Davis Nuno Andre Coelho Benji Joya Dom Dwyer Seth Sinovic Lawrence Olum Saad Abdul-Salaam Justin Mapp Connor Hallisey Emmanuel Appiah Ever Alvarado Alec Kann Roger Espinoza Tim Melia Daniel Salloi Jacob Peterson Cameron Porter Sori Mustivar Jimmy Medranda Bernardo Anor
Pos. Height Weight Age GK 6-1 170 23 D 6-1 175 19 D 6-2 180 27 D 5-9 160 25 D 6-0 170 29 M 5-8 155 33 D 6-0 165 28 M 5-10 160 30 F 5-11 170 23 M 5-9 160 31 M 5-11 165 34 D 6-4 181 30 M 5-8 145 23 F 5-9 180 26 D 5-10 170 29 M 6-2 185 32 D 6-4 185 25 GK 6-1 160 32 M 5-9 158 23 M 5-9 160 23 D 5-11 154 24 GK 6-4 190 26 M 5-11 170 30 GK 6-1 190 30 F 6-1 150 20 F 5-10 165 30 F 6-1 175 23 M 5-10 170 26 D 5-5 150 22 M 6-1 178 28
2016 MLS PLAYOFF INFO Despite sitting in ninth place in the Western Conference to begin the month of September, Sounders FC secured postseason qualification after a 2-1 home win over Real Salt Lake on Decision Day. Earning a playoff spot in each of the past eight seasons since its inaugural 2009 campaign, Sounders FC is currently tied with LA Galaxy for the longest postseason streak in MLS.
FINAL 2016 WESTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS
FINAL 2016 EASTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS RANK TEAM
PTS GP
W-L-D
1 New York
57 34
16-9-9
58 34 15-6-13
2 New York City 54 34
15-10-9
3 LA Galaxy
52 34
12-6-16
3 Toronto FC
53 34
14-9-11
4 Sounders FC
48 34
14-14-6
4 D.C. United
46 34
11-10-13
5 Sporting KC
47 34
13-13-8
5 Montreal
45 34 11-11-12
6 Real Salt Lake 46 34
12-12-10
6 Philadelphia
42 34 11-14-9
7 Portland
44 34
12-14-8
7 New England
42 34
8 Vancouver
39 34 10-15-9
8 Orlando City SC 41
9 San Jose
38 34
8-12-14
9 Columbus
36 34 8-14-12
10 Houston
34 34
7-14-13
10 Chicago
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PTS GP
W-L-D
1 FC Dallas
60 34
17-8-9
2 Colorado
34 34
11-14-9 9-11-14 7-17-13
THIS WEEK IN MLS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26 - KNOCKOUT ROUND Toronto FC vs. Philadelphia Union, 4:30 p.m. PT LA Galaxy vs. Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m. PT
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 - KNOCKOUT ROUND D.C. United vs. Montreal Impact, 4:30 p.m. PT Sounders FC vs. Sporting KC, 7:00 p.m. PT
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 - CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS Conference Semifinalist v. Conference Semifinalist, 12:00 p.m. PT Conference Semifinalist v. Conference Semifinalist, 2:00 p.m. PT Conference Semifinalist v. Conference Semifinalist, 4:00 p.m. PT Conference Semifinalist v. Conference Semifinalist, 6:30 p.m. PT
In the Western Conference, the team with the lowest regular-season point total of the Knockout Round will face No. 1 seed FC Dallas in the Conference Semifinals, while the lower seed matches up with No. 2 Colorado Rapids. In the Eastern Conference, the team with the lowest regular-season point total of the Knockout Round will face No. 1 seed New York Red Bulls in the Conference Semifinals, while the lower seed matches up with No. 2 New York City FC.
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LODEIRO – A PROVEN WINNER A few months ago, Nicolás Lodeiro took quite the leap. He left Boca Juniors, the most prominent club in Argentina and one of the most successful clubs in the Western Hemisphere, to join a struggling Seattle side that had posted a 6-12-2 record and sat near the bottom of the table. Just hours before he arrived at the team’s facility, the club parted ways with the only head coach it had ever known. For someone who defined himself by his unyielding will to win, how was he going to adjust? “I’m a very professional player. I like to win,” Lodeiro said at his introductory press conference. “I like to get together with my teammates and play with them. I like to be close to the ball and be part of the [build-up] play, and I definitely like to contribute to make the team a winning team.”
He registered a goal or assist in each of the five matches in the month of August en route to MLS Player of the Month honors. The production of the club’s newest Designated Player has been extra crucial down the homestretch of the 2016 campaign after Sounders FC lost Clint Dempsey for the season with an irregular heartbeat.
By season’s end, Lodeiro was part of a winning team – and it was his magisterial touch, creative play and buzzing energy that catapulted Sounders FC to an 8-2-4 record down the stretch and a spot in the 2016 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs. Now it will be up to Lodeiro to lead the club as it enters its eighth straight postseason appearance, which matches LA Galaxy’s active mark as the longest such streak in league history.
Prior to joining MLS less than three months ago, Lodeiro was a proven winner on the big stage. He has won domestic titles with Uruguay’s Nacional and Brazil’s Botafogo, and last year won the Primera Division with Boca Juniors. Lodeiro spent two seasons with the Dutch powerhouse Ajax, where he won the Eredivisie twice. The midfielder also won the 2011 Copa America with Uruguay, who also finished fourth at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
In his 13 appearances in Rave Green, Lodeiro has been nothing short of spectacular, recording four goals and eight assists (tied for the team-lead).
This sustained pattern of success bodes well for the Rave Green, who remain relentless in their pursuit of the elusive MLS Cup.
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One Game To Rule Them All
By Will Parchman It’s here. One game to decide the fate of a season. It almost seems cruel, that a single 90 minutes will either grant the Sounders passage into the Western Conference Semifinals for an eighth consecutive season or send them home to an early offseason. In a lot of ways the 2016 season has seemed longer than any before it, spliced in the middle by a coaching change that more or less cut the season in half. And now the Sounders are here, either a game from the next round or a game from the couch. After playing their way into the playoffs with a coal fire-hot run over the last three
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months of the season, the Sounders play host to Sporting Kansas City on Thursday in the Knockout Round. The Sounders sewed up a No. 4 seed with a 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake on the final day of the regular season, which earned them a once-improbable playoff home game. Should the Sounders navigate past Sporting KC, they’ll face the Colorado Rapids if RSL manages to bump off the LA Galaxy, or top-seeded FC Dallas if the Galaxy fend off RSL at home. But first they’ll have to navigate past a Sporting KC team that’s beaten Seattle home and away in the only two meetings between the teams this year. But, as we’ve discussed this week, those results are more or less meaningless in the context of Thursday’s battle.
Since it’s pointless to reach into the previous two meetings between these teams for insight, what can Seattle reasonably expect to see from the side pouring over CenturyLink Field’s ramparts on Thursday? Let’s go back to Sporting KC’s most recent match for evidence. Sporting KC dropped a San Jose team with no playoff aspirations 2-0 at home, and the scoreline was deserved. San Jose produced little in the way of incisiveness, and Sporting KC had the run of the match. But it wasn’t quite that lopsided. Coach Peter Vermes’ teams never try to completely take over a game via possession. Those moments are incidental to the flow of the match, and if Sporting KC owns upwards of 60 percent possession, it’s most likely because you’ve ceded it to them. San Jose’s 47 percent possession wasn’t so much of a surprise. But here’s where the vast majority of Sporting KC’s attacking destructiveness came from: Benny Feilhaber. Feilhaber’s passing against San Jose is a construct of Vermes’ nominal 4-3-3. Granted cover by deeper midfielders Soni Mustivar and Paulo Nagamura, Feilhaber has license to pick out balls in the final third without worrying too deeply about tracking. That blue line indicates an assist, and the yellow is a pass that led to a shot. Not many MLS teams have a player comfortable living in this environment all game. But the more confusing (and potentially disruptive) deployment option Vermes went with against San Jose was what he did with Roger Espinoza. The Sounders have struggled for width all year, a fact lessened somewhat by Cristian Roldan’s performance on the right flank in the season finale against Real Salt Lake. The fact that Espinoza started as the left peg of the high line in Vermes’ 4-3-3 against San Jose indicates Sporting KC is dealing with some of the
same issues. In the same way Roldan isn’t a right midfielder, Espinoza certainly isn’t a left winger. But this creates some attacking issues of its own for opposing front lines. San Jose couldn’t figure out what to do with Espinoza dropping into space on the left next to Mustivar, who used Espinoza as a backboard to start attacks. So Sporting KC’s builds tended to look like a zig-zag traveling from Mustivar to Espinoza to Feilhaber up to Dom Dwyer at the front. From a defensive perspective, all this matters for the Sounders due to a spate of injuries that hit the team late in the year. An injury that may keep Andreas Ivanschitz out again forced a shuffle that moved Roldan out of the central midfield and pushed Erik Friberg back into the starting lineup next to Osvaldo Alonso. Considering how good Alonso and Roldan have been all year next to one another, it was hardly an ideal scenario. The seeming return of Brad Evans from an injury layoff gives interim coach Brian Schmetzer more room to work with. Evans came on late against RSL and upheld the flank, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him start on Thursday. A lineup with Evans at right mid, Alvaro Fernandez on the left and Roldan-Alonso paired up wouldn’t be a bad idea. It’d get the captain back on the field and give the Sounders an easy No. 1 option off the bench in Friberg. That’s about as versatile as the Sounders can get with Ivanschitz’s iffy status. The bottom line, though, is that the Sounders launched themselves into this position with a good performance against RSL and a string of wins stretching back to the start of August. Streaky teams tend to dominate the postseason, something the Portland Timbers proved in spades last season. If the Sounders can keep that momentum rolling, they have at least two more games in them after Thursday night.
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Sounders FC Looks for Clean Slate After Previous Losses to Sporting Kansas City
By Will Parchman The Seattle Sounders’ history with Sporting Kansas City in 2016 is a maudlin tale told in two wildly different vignettes. The first story is weaved through a cool evening in March underneath skies that threatened and then delivered on a downpour. It was the first day of the season, and the Sounders had just lost Obafemi Martins to China. While they attempted to figure out a way forward
without him, Sporting KC came to town to open the season. The match went off the rails when Oniel Fisher earned a red card just before halftime. With the new turf slick from the rain - the team had only played one competitive match on it before opening day - a speculative shot from 30 yards skipped off the ground and past a diving Stefan Frei. An anomaly, but the game ended 1-0 all the same.
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The second vignette came months later on July 24, halfway across the country in steamy Kansas City. Amidst punishingly searing temperatures, the Sounders put in arguably their worst performance in franchise history. They came mere minutes from becoming the first team in MLS history to go an entire 90-minute match without registering a single shot, either on or off target. Even then, it was only one, a Joevin Jones effort that went 10 yards wide of the post. Days later, longtime coach Sigi Schmid’s tenure in Seattle was over. And now, Sporting KC comes to town Thursday for a do-or-die Knockout Round meet-up at CenturyLink Field. It’ll be the last meeting between the teams this year, and what happens next - if the Sounders win - is entirely
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dependent on what happens in Wednesday’s Real Salt Lake-LA Galaxy game. But don’t fall into the trap of conflating the game to come with the two that’ve already happened this year. Because Sporting KC’s two wins over the Sounders this year may as well have happened in the Paleolithic Age. To put it as simply as possible, they have no bearing on Thursday’s events. For one, the first matchup came on the initial day of the regular season. That day, the Sounders started Jordan Morris as a right winger, Clint Dempsey as a left winger, Brad Evans as a center back and Oniel Fisher as a right back. Morris moved to full-time striker a few weeks later,
Dempsey is out for the season, Evans was replaced by Román Torres in September and Fisher has had a grand total of one start since that game. Not to mention the holistic switch from Schmid’s 4-3-3 to interim coach Brian Schmetzer’s 4-2-3-1. What’s more, the Sounders played nearly 45 minutes down a man. As for the second game between the two? Where to even start? Perhaps the most notable thing about the Sounders that day - aside from ostensibly playing inside a blast furnace - was that they lacked a suspended Osvaldo Alonso. The Sounders are 0-13-3 without Alonso on the road, and unsurprisingly they looked bereft of ideas. That wasn’t the entirety of the issue, but it helps explain some of it. Beyond that, this game came days before Nicolás Lodeiro arrived in town for the first time, nearly two months before Torres returned from injury and before Schmetzer galvanized the locker room. Since the start of August those have been the Sounders’ two best
players, bar none, and Schmetzer’s steady hand has been invaluable. Whatever Sporting KC was able to do against Seattle earlier in the year, it hasn’t faced either in person. And the prospect of squaring up Lodeiro in particular should fill them with at least some small sense of dread. As it’s constructed, Sporting KC will probably sit in a bit and let the Sounders come to them, which is a totally different look from the battles these two teams played earlier in the year. In the first, the Sounders were forced on their heels by a red card that turned the game into 11 vs. 10. In the second, the Sounders limped into that game on a poor run of form and played so poorly it’s fair to wonder if that nadir will ever be equaled again in franchise history. Sporting KC can expect a vastly different Sounders team this time around. We’ll soon see if it’s good enough to push the Sounders into the Western Conference Semifinals for the eighth consecutive season.
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2016 MLS REGULAR SEASON STATS UNF POS Player
GP GS MIN
G A SHT SOG FC/FS OFF CK C/E
13 F Jordan Morris
34 32 2856 12 4 71 36 29/24 18 0 0/0
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2
F
Clint Dempsey
17 1429
8
2
65 22
23/27
6
1
1/1
10
M
Nicolás Lodeiro
13
13 1170
4
8
33 11
8/44
5
40
5/0
M
Cristian Roldan
33
28 2632
4
3
30 11
27/46
4
2
2/0
7
14 D Chad Marshall
30 30 2634 4 0 21 9 13/19 0 0 2/0
23
M
28
25 1910
3
8
36 13
13/30
6 100
5/0
M Osvaldo Alonso
32
32 2826
3
4
43 11
51/63
0
7/1
6
Andreas Ivanschitz
0
33 D Joevin Jones
33 29 2547 2 3 16 5 29/11 1 0 6/0
3 D Brad Evans
23 21 1866 1 1 9 1 12/13 0 0 1/2
21 M Alvaro Fernandez 10 8 530 1 1 5 2 8/11 4 0 0/0 11 M Aaron Kovar
16 10 811 1 0 21 5 11/8 0 10 1/0
8 M Erik Friberg
25 18 1582 0 2 12 2 17/5 1 12 3/0
4 D Tyrone Mears
32 32 2835 0 2 3 0 33/22 1 2 3/0
16 F Nelson Valdez 24 8 900 0 1 30 11 21/22 9 0 4/0 91 D Oniel Fisher
6 2 232 0 1 1 0 10/5 0 0 1/1
24 GK Stefan Frei
33 33 2970 0 0 1 1
0/5 0 0 0/0
20 D Zach Scott
14 9 886 0 0 4 1 7/13 0 0 2/0
9 F Herculez Gomez 21 9 842 0 0 14 7 16/18 2 23 1/0 29 D Román Torres 15
D Dylan Remick
9 8 765 0 0 6 1 11
6
537
0
0
1
0
5/5 1 0 1/0 6/5
0
0
1/0
39 F Oalex Anderson 15 2 334 0 0 9 4 7/14 0 0 0/0 50 D Tony Alfaro
6 1 286 0 0 2 0
1/4 0 0 0/0
1 GK Tyler Miller
1 1 90 0 0 0 0
0/0 0 0 0/0
17 F Darwin Jones
2 0 22 0 0 0 0
1/0 0 0 0/0
Team totals
34
34 3060
44 40 432 153 350/441
58 190 47/5
Opponent totals
34
34 3060
43 43 430 141 441/350
48 181 62/3
GP-games played; GS-games started; MIN-minutes; G-goals; A-assists; P-points; SHT-shots; SOG-shots on goal; FC/FS-fouls committed/fouls suffered; CK-corner kicks; OFF-offsides; C/E-cautions/ejections
GAME-WINNING GOALS: Morris 6, Dempsey 5, Marshall 1, Evans 1, Roldan 1 GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: Ivanschitz 3, Morris 2, Roldan 2, Lodeiro 2, Friberg 2, Dempsey 1 PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: Dempsey 2-3, Brad Evans 1-1
SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC INDIVIDUAL GOALKEEPING UNF POS Player
GP GS MIN SHTS SV GA GAA PG PA W-L-D SO
24 GK Stefan Frei
33 33 2970 137 91 41 1.24 6 8 14-13-6 8
1 GK Tyler Miller
1 1 90
4 2 2 2.00 0 0 0-1-0 0
Team totals
34 34
3060
141
93
43
1.26
6
8 14-14-6
8
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34 34
3060
153 103
44
1.29
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