exhilerating second half ends in heartbreak

sounders lose 3-1, knocked from playoffs.

result aside for a second, what a second half. it was as exciting as it gets. i will try to recap from memory, but there was so much that went on, i am sure to miss something.

- montreal put together a great passing play and score to make it 2-2 on agg
- montreal shut off and let in le toux to pass to levesque for a rather easy goal about 4 minutes later. 3-2 seattle on agg
- levesque makes a pretty bad tackle montreal player and is given a straight red, very harsh call, even the montreal biased commentators agreed.
- the resulting free kicked is bounced around in the box, but finds the back of the net. 3-3 on agg and montreal have a man advantage.
- about 2 minutes later le toux is brought down in the box. PENALTY. it results in a second yellow for a montreal player. 10 v 10 again.
- cueller calmly finds the back of the net, 4-3… but wait!!! nyassi was called for entering the box early. need to retake penalty
- cueller goes the same way, easily beats the keeper, but CLANG!!!!! off the post.  still 3-3
- right on the edge of regular time, eyelander saves a long range effort, but only  as far as an impact player who has an easy tap in. 4-3 to  montreal.
- we had another player sent off (can’t remember who right now) for being the last man and cynically tripping up a clear goal scoring opportunity as the last man, even though it was on the half way line. it didn’t really matter though b/c 2 minutes later, the final whistle

*sigh*

what a heartbreaker. the sounders fans and team will feel like they deserved to win. and to be honest, they should have.

well we have just witnessed the very last USL sounders game to take place. and although the result was not what we wanted… the game was a great one.

thank you sounders!!!!!!!