Sounders Win 1st Leg of Champions League
Seattle has a win and a +1 goal differential after the home leg of the CONCACAF Champions League play-in match against Metapan.
After playing through a scoreless 60 minutes, Fredy Montero came on as a 60th minute substitute for Nate Jaqua, and seconds later gave Sounders FC a goal that would be the game-winner.
Montero’s goal against the El Salvador club was a 40-yd blast that was mishandled by the Metapan goalkeeper Misael Alfaro in front of 17,228 at Qwest Field. Read more
Zakuani’s Brace Gives Seattle 3 Points
Two first half goals by 2nd-year player, Steve Zakuani, proved to be too much for the Colorado Rapids as Sounders FC won 2-1 on Sunday night.
Zakuani opened up his scoring sheet in the 8th minute after putting away a pass from Fredy Montero. The Rapids managed an amazing response a mere 30 seconds later evening the score 1-1 on a goal by Omar Cummings.
10 minutes later, Montero started the play up the right side by lofting a pass to Sanna Nyassi who slid the ball to Zakuani for the game winning goal. Read more
Sounders Down DC, 1-0
Many Sounders fans were excited today with the hopes of seeing Blaise Nkufo for the first time in Rave Green. In the waning minutes of regulation their spirits were crushed when Sigi Schmid used Seattle’s third substitute with Sanna Nyassi.
However, 1 minute later, Roger Levesque energized Sounders fans across the coast when he headed home the game’s lone goal at the 89th minute off a beautiful cross from Fredy Montero. Read more
Sounders Draw at Home with Dallas
Fredy Montero’s header in the 14th minute put Seattle up 1-0, but the Sounders couldn’t hold as David Ferreira’s 1-touch side volley snuck past Kasey Keller in the 87th minute to even Sunday Night’s match at Qwest.
Montero’s 6th goal on the season was initiated by a Michael Seamon pass to James Riley on the right flank. The defender deftly crossed a ball to the near post where Montero came out of nowhere to deliver the header from 10 yards out.
Sounders FC was forced to play the last third of the match a man down. 19 year old Miguel Montano, who became the youngest starter in Seattle’s history, was issued a red card in the 56th minute for launching an elbow to Dallas’s Brek Shea on the right-side touch line in front of the Dallas Technical area. Read more
Sounders Beat LA to Advance in Open Cup
Updated with photos from Chris & jT
Two second half goals from Nate Jaqua gave Sounders FC the edge it needed to beat the LA Galaxy 2-0 in the US Open Cup on Wednesday night.
Seattle’s next USOC match will be against Chivas USA in the semifinals on September 1st. A match that is scheduled to be playe at Starfire in Tukwila.
Jaqua put Seattle on the board in the 50th minute when he followed up a Miguel Montano shot that bounced off of the crossbar.
In the 62nd minute, the 6′3″ Eugene Native headed in his second goal, again on a play initiated by the 18 year old Colombian, Montano. Read more
Sounders Lose to Galaxy, 1-3
Freddie Ljungberg has the same reaction as many Sounders Fans (by Chris Coulter)
Sounders FC suffered their third consecutive loss in MLS action as the Galaxy downed the club 1-3.
Seattle (4-8-3, 15 points) tried to ruin the homecoming for Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle, but the two connected in the 19th minute off of a corner kick to put LA up 1-0 which carried into the intermission.
Brazilian, Juninho, put the MLS-Leading Galaxy up 2-0 right after the break when he scored on a magnificent 30-yard shot perfectly placed in the upper 90. Read more
Sounders Advance in US Open Cup
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After 120 minutes of action and an even score it came down to the 5th Penalty Kick by Zach Scott to secure Sounders FC’s victory in the third round of the US Open Cup.
Opening their Cup Championship defense on the road in front of 15,422 at PGE Park, Seattle got an early goal in the 13th minute. Setup by an initial pass from rookies Michael Seamon to Miguel Montano, the Colombian crossed the ball to the 6′ where Sanna Nyassi volleyed the ball to Nate Jaqua’s head to put the ball past Timbers goalkeeper Sam Cronin. Read more
we sucked today, but not as much as fifa refs. well, ok. maybe.
so, maybe i am a little pissy b/c the US got knocked out, or maybe i am pissy b/c my other half, england, got hosed on a call that could have very much changed the game, or maybe i am pissy b/c it has been a very very frustrating 27 hours of footy all round. pretty much all of the above.
but the sounders sucked today. ljungberg hardly had a touch. vagenas was absent. marshall did his best to give away the ball, when he wasn’t giving away penalties (even though that was rather soft). but i am proud to say that we kept up our perfect record in MLS play with how we finish penalty kicks. so we got that going for us.
i actually don’t want to talk any more sounders. i don’t think i was ready for the game… and i am pretty sure our team wasn’t either. we were flat, boring, out of ideas, and defensively frail.
onto a quick recap of the world cup games today.
Sounders Return to MLS Action with Loss
Sounders FC traveled to Philadelphia to open MLS’s newest soccer specific stadium following the 2-week World Cup break. They are returning to Seattle losers in a 1-3 game.
Seattle (4-7-3, 15pts) was up 1-0 at the intermission thanks to a Pat Noonan goal in the 44th minute.
In the second half, effective heat index in the new Chester, PA stadium reached 106 and the Union were just as hot. Former Sounder Sebastien LeToux evened the match in the 54th on a Penalty Kick and Noonan went for the brace 58th minute with a penalty kick that was saved by Union goalkeeper, Chris Seitz.
The Union added goals by Fred in the 79th and rookie Danny Mwanga in the 84th minute to ice the inaugural match at PPL Park in front of 18,755. Read more
Sounders Lose to DC
Sounders went down 0-3 and used a late game flury of goals by James Riley in the 90th minute and Fredy Montero in the 91st to make the game interesting. But DC held on to win 3-2 in front of 36,146 fans at Qwest Field.
More to come… Read more
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Next / Last Match
Next- San Jose [Tickets]
Saturday 7/31 | 7p
Last- Metapan (CCL): W, 1-0
Next Home Match Houston Dynamo | Aug 8th [Tickets]
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