Sounders Draw at Home Against Chivas, 0-0
The scoreless streak for the Sounders at Qwest Field stands at 585 minutes as Chivas heads back to Southern California with a point.
Sounders FC move to 9-6-11 (38pts) on the season.
More to come…
Match 26: Chivas USA at Seattle Sounders FC Preview
Seattle returns to Qwest Field with the US Open Cup trophy and a league win since their last match on the XBox Pitch as they face Chivas USA on Saturday.
Sounders FC (9-6-10, 37pts) finds itself in the midst of a Playoff run with 5 matches remaining against The Goats from Southern California (11-9-3, 36pts) who is also in the same post-season posturing.
Head Boss for the Sounders, Sigi Schmid, should have his entire lineup at his disposal for the match with no players facing suspension or major injury.
This is the third meeting on the 2009 campaign for these two clubs. Read more
US Open Cup Presented to Fans Before Chivas
Prior to the “March to the Match” on Saturday morning, members of the Sounders FC ownership group will present the U.S. Open Cup trophy to fans. The fans will carry the trophy to Qwest Field.
The March will depart Occidental Park located in the heart of Pioneer Square at the intersection of Main Street and Occidental Avenue South. The “March to the Match” will depart the park at 10:30 a.m. and finish just outside the Northwest Gate, where fans can enter the stadium.
Also before the match, former North American Soccer League (NASL) Sounders will be honored in a pre-game ceremony on Saturday. Sounders FC Alliance members voted online for the player, coach or team representative that best represented the Sounders on and off of the field. The recipient with the most votes will receive the team’s Golden Scarf prior to the first kick.
dominated the game, but lost…. and more red
Chivas capitalizing on one of their few chances against Seattle (Getty)
i admit i am likely a little knee jerky right now… but honestly, if we can’t learn to take our chances and finish our games with 11 men, our playoff chances are going to slip away game after game.
our team can’t keep re-learning how to play with one another with different players slotted to fill in game after game. but yet again, next week, we will be without jaqua due to a red, and hurtado due to 5 yellow accumulations. jaqua’s second yellow was ridiculously soft…. and was no way a yellow. very frustrating.
need to keep this short b/c i am on diaper duty right now… or diaper doodie as i like to call it. so a few points on the match… Read more
Sounders Lose to Chivas USA 0-1
Nate Jaqua was ejected for receiving 2 yellows (Getty Images)
Chivas USA got a goal in the 38th minute by Eduardo Lillingston off a Kasey Keller rebound to defeat the Sounders 1-0 at the Home Depot Center.
In a match where Seattle dominated possession, the Sounders could not convert on multiple opportunities.
The loss drop Sounders FC to 4-3-5 (17pts) and the squad loses more ground to Chivas as they improve to 8-2-3 (27pts).
Nate Jaqua received two cautions and was ejected in the 88th minute. Jhon Kennedy Hurtado received a caution in the 82nd- it was his fifth yellow card on the season. They will both miss next week’s game against San Jose.
Seattle’s last win came on April 25th, a win over San Jose. The Sounders are 0-1-5 since then.
Scoring Summary: Read more
Random Facts & Stats for Sounders FC vs. Chivas USA
Freddie Ljungberg has been fouled 22 times (from Getty)
Since you love the random numbers and facts, here they are for Saturday’s Sounders FC vs. Chivas USA match…
- Sigi Schmid is 1-4-2 against Chivas USA. 117-88-62 overall
- Jhon Kennedy Hurtado (and Tyrone Marshall) are the lone Sounders to have statistically play all 990 minutes for Sounders FC this season.
- Chivas has 3 players who have played in every minute of their 12 matches
- Hurtado is also carrying 4 yellow cards on accumulation.
- Nate Jaqua has scored 4 goals and has 1 assist against Chivas in his career. Pete Vagenas has 3 goals and an assist.
Match 12: Sounders FC @ Chivas USA Preview
This weekend Seattle makes a return trip to the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA to face Chivas USA in their second of three match in 2009.
The Sounders are on a 5-game streak of ties while MLS-leading Chivas is coming off their second loss of the season and are winless in their last 3 matches.
In the first meeting on April 18th, Chivas defeated a Kasey Keller-less Sounders FC squad 2-0.
Chivas allowed only 3 goals in their first 9 matches, but in their past three they have given up 6. Read more
the honeymoon is over
well i am not going to write too much tonight b/c that wasn’t the most fun game to watch… not going to lie.
even though we lost last week, we could all get behind the fact that the ten men Sounders almost pulled it off, and they, for the most part, played better down a man then when it was equal. so it had a bit of a feel good warm fuzzy feeling even though the loss.
tonight…………. well…………. not so much.
we weren’t terrible, but i tell you what, chivas were pretty much the better team, everywhere on the pitch, for most of the game. i hate the loss, but i hand it to chivas, they deserved the win. quickly looking at some of the forums, there are some people bitching about chivas’s aggressive play. there is no doubt that they were indeed coming in hard and it was part of their strategy, however, there is hard (clean) and there is hard (dirty). i didn’t think it was dirty for the most part… and to be honest, i think we need to be a little bit tougher ourselves.
Chivas USA 2: :0 Sounders FC
It was a frustrating night for Sounders FC (by Getty Images)
Seattle had a James Riley own-goal and then Chivas USA’s Chukwudi Chijindu added a security goal in the 84th minute as the league leaders improve their record to 4-0-1 (13 points).
The loss drops Sounders FC to 3-2-0 (9 points).
It was a physical game. Chivas USA committed 18 fouls to Seattle’s 6. Sigi Schmid noted, “I thought it was a very physical game, and I thought the referee allowed it to be played physically, but they’re a good passing team, they don’t make many positional errors, and they were pretty solid defensively.”
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- Sigi Schmid if 1-3-2 in his career against Chivas USA.
- Brad Evans, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Tyrone Marshall, Osvaldo Alonso, and James Riley are the only players to play in all 360 minutes this season.
- Nate Jaqua has played against Chivas USA 8 times; he has 4 goals and 1 assist.
- Chivas USA played the USL Sounders 4 times. The MLS side took a win in 2006 and 2007 exhibitions. The USLers won in the US Open Cup in 2007 & 2008.
- Seattle Kasey Keller and Chivas USA’s Paulo Nagamura both received red cards in their squads’ last game and will not be playing this weekend.
- Sounders FC have played in front of an average of 27,618 in their first four games of 2009.
Sounders FC Leaders
Goals: Fredy Montero (3)
Assists: Alonso (3)
Shots: Montero (11)
Shots on Goal: Montero (6)
Fouls Committed: Jaqua (11)
Fouls Suffered: Montero (13)
