Speaker 1: Good evening from snap Dragon Stadium in beautiful San Diego, California,
Speaker 1: for this first ever match between Your Sounders and San
Speaker 1: Diego FC. San Diego come into this game off a
Speaker 1: pulsating three to two win versus LAFC last week.
Speaker 2: Three goals in the.
Speaker 1: First half provided the cushion they needed to withstand an
Speaker 1: LAFC fight back, and they currently sit in a very
Speaker 1: respectable third position in the Western Conference coming into this
Speaker 1: weekend's games. For Your Sounders, the last few weeks feel
Speaker 1: like we have been pushing uphill. Injuries, sloppy goals, and
Speaker 1: an inability to convert chances has stagnated a very promising
Speaker 1: start to the season. But a very positive second half
Speaker 1: last week versus San Jose will seek confidence in the team,
Speaker 1: and coupled with a return of those missing players and
Speaker 1: the fresh signing of Ryan Kent this week, we are
Speaker 1: feeling optimistic and excited again. I'm Danny Jackson alongside Brad
Speaker 1: Evans here in the booth and we'll get to.
Speaker 2: Brad's comments in just a minute, but let's get you
Speaker 2: the Delta.
Speaker 1: Starting eleven for Brian Schmetzer and for Your Sounders, Stefan
Speaker 1: Fryan gol at back three of Yemar Reagan and Nuhu
Speaker 1: a midfield four Alex Roldan on the right, Paul Rothrock
Speaker 1: on the left, and then Christian Rolldan slides back into
Speaker 1: the middle alongside Obed Vargas, Jesus Ferrera, Albert Ruzneck. We
Speaker 1: feel will sit right underneath potentially a Georgie Munungo who
Speaker 1: will squeeze up in that number nine spot and cause
Speaker 1: all sorts of havoc for San Diego. They're gonna go
Speaker 1: to four to three to three Dosantos and gol aback
Speaker 1: four of Luffel, Send mcveain McNair and Negri Kudoy, Diverse
Speaker 1: Cough and Della Tory in the midfield and then main
Speaker 1: man Drea alongside Balakari and then Juki Lozana coming back
Speaker 1: from an injury where he came off of the bench
Speaker 1: last week, but he gets a start tonight.
Speaker 2: So, Brad, we talk about must win games.
Speaker 1: The Sounders have kind of spluttered and started their season
Speaker 1: in a manner which they've had. It happened before. What
Speaker 1: do they have to do tonight against this new San
Speaker 1: Diego team.
Speaker 3: Well, they got to put this team under pressure and
Speaker 3: show them who the Sounders are. Right, anytime I see
Speaker 3: a fourth, a true four to three three set up,
Speaker 3: that just tells me that the front three are gonna
Speaker 3: fly and the rest of them are there to just
Speaker 3: help support. And they've done that so far this season
Speaker 3: with San Diego and for the Sounders. When you look
Speaker 3: at it, I mean it's a flip of the coin, right.
Speaker 3: If you don't slip in Saint Louis, you might get
Speaker 3: three points. If you don't have the defensive air in
Speaker 3: the first game against Charlotte, you might have three points.
Speaker 3: And so last week against San Jose, if you don't
Speaker 3: play that ball through the middle, you might end up
Speaker 3: with three points on the night. So you have to
Speaker 3: negate all the mistakes. And if the Sounders do that
Speaker 3: away from home and get just a couple chances, if
Speaker 3: they play as well as they did in the second
Speaker 3: half of that San Jose game and really put in
Speaker 3: a complete ninety minute performance, I think the Sounders find
Speaker 3: themselves with a good result in three points to take
Speaker 3: home tonight.
Speaker 1: Well, Sanders getting ready to hopefully get that first win
Speaker 1: they've had for a little while. They're gonna be in
Speaker 1: the anniversary create green shirts, Blue shorts and white socks,
Speaker 1: and San Diego in the all midnight Navy kit of
Speaker 1: blue shirts, shorts and socks. Three goals in the first
Speaker 1: half of San Diego last week, they got their first
Speaker 1: win at home against regional local rival LAFC, but there
Speaker 1: was a barnstorming first half. Five goals in that first half.
Speaker 1: Two goals from LAFC in the final five minutes or
Speaker 1: so got them right back into the game. Made for
Speaker 1: a nervy second half, but a red card helped and
Speaker 1: settled in for three valuable points. But one thing, Brad,
Speaker 1: we know from these teams that create these really amazing
Speaker 1: atmosphere thirty five thousand people here at Snapdragon. It's been
Speaker 1: designed for soccer. But what a good addition to this league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what you want. You want the teams
Speaker 3: coming in with a stacked stadium that is going to
Speaker 3: be packed right when they come into the league. It's
Speaker 3: not about sitting in a baseball stadium and then hoping
Speaker 3: that you get your stadium built. They've done it all
Speaker 3: the right way and off we go here in San Diego.
Speaker 1: Santio get us going. They're going to be tacking the
Speaker 1: goal to our left as we look at it.
Speaker 2: Sounders attacking goal to our right.
Speaker 1: The ball gets hooked down the line, headed forward by
Speaker 1: San Diego, picked up by Della Torre, local San Diego
Speaker 1: native came back to join the new franchise. This ball
Speaker 1: goes back to Murcveigh. As mentioned, solid back line. So
Speaker 1: far they've scored ten goals, which matches Vancouver for the
Speaker 1: top of the Western Conference in terms of goals scored.
Speaker 1: The ball goes down the line, picked up good challenge
Speaker 1: by Jackson. Reagan slides in on that right hand sid
Speaker 1: It's going to be an early throw for San Diego
Speaker 1: in the attack in half of the field.
Speaker 3: And what you notice for the Sounders is there're no
Speaker 3: stranger to playing in big environments and big stadiums in
Speaker 3: front of rockers crowds, and what the Sounders have always
Speaker 3: done well And Ziggy used to tell us this, you
Speaker 3: want to be streak breakers. So San Diego gets their
Speaker 3: first win at home, you want to be the first
Speaker 3: team to say that you broke that little streak that
Speaker 3: they got going to that win, and obviously a decent
Speaker 3: result just before that at home in a draw.
Speaker 1: Ball down the line and it's going to be an
Speaker 1: early corner kick for San Diego down on this bottom
Speaker 1: left corner. As we're looking at it, quickly taken short
Speaker 1: corner to Lasana goes it towards the end like cuts
Speaker 1: it back top of the six yard Bucks strike and
Speaker 1: that's an early goal.
Speaker 2: That's a horror start for the Sounders.
Speaker 1: And it's traverse cuff from about eight yards out. The
Speaker 1: ball was cut back, he was able to control it
Speaker 1: inside the eighteen yard Bucks slots it pass Fry and
Speaker 1: inside the first two minutes. That is not what you
Speaker 1: want to do for the Sounders. They go down one nil.
Speaker 3: No, this is gonna drive Brian schmetz Aer crazy here.
Speaker 3: You know that you're playing away from home, they're gonna
Speaker 3: come off to a fast start. Anytime a team just
Speaker 3: drops the ball back and smashes it forward, you're in
Speaker 3: for it. On the night and San Diego smelled something here.
Speaker 3: They know that the Sounders have fallen asleep. And you
Speaker 3: saw it as soon as that ball went out. The
Speaker 3: Sounders were slow to drop back and they're not set up.
Speaker 3: And what does San Diego do? A quick move here
Speaker 3: and you got the best player on the field in
Speaker 3: Chucky Lozano, with just a little slight cut and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you still have look at the Sounders.
Speaker 3: They've got five to three inside the box and still
Speaker 3: the inability to close down and block that from going
Speaker 3: in the back of the net. And worst case scenario
Speaker 3: for the Sounders, you go down one nothing inside two minutes.
Speaker 3: It's a tough hill to climb.
Speaker 1: Now, well, that's not gonna look good on the Monday
Speaker 1: morning video replay, Christian Roldan jumps up, isn't able to
Speaker 1: take the ball off Juky Lozano and he goes down
Speaker 1: and really good early fresh from San Diego, and they
Speaker 1: go up a goal. Sounders have talked about it all week,
Speaker 1: keep it tight, don't give them anything. They just felt
Speaker 1: the Sounds were fast asleep in that six yard box
Speaker 1: and Reagan wasn't able to step forward and really challenges.
Speaker 2: The ball goes down the right hand side.
Speaker 1: Eventually the assistant referees flag on the far side goes up,
Speaker 1: but it's not when you want them.
Speaker 2: Ball goes out the top.
Speaker 1: Jackson Reagan talked about in his interview this week is
Speaker 1: the ability for San Diego's are not the ball along
Speaker 1: and really kind of counter the sound as high press.
Speaker 3: Well, what Sandy Goes done is they built an incredibly
Speaker 3: athletic team. That's why they've been up such a hot
Speaker 3: start to start this MLS campaign off. And that's a
Speaker 3: credit to this roster that they built. When you look
Speaker 3: at the roster, there's only like six guys from the
Speaker 3: US on their roster as opposed to sixteen or so
Speaker 3: guys on the Sounders roster. And what they've done is
Speaker 3: brought in a lot of athletic guys who maybe didn't
Speaker 3: play at the biggest teams overseas, but in athletic technical teams,
Speaker 3: and they've been able to put together something special. And
Speaker 3: Jackson's right, the ball over the top is key. If
Speaker 3: you're going to play in this league. You have to
Speaker 3: have speed to stretch on the opposite side. It's such
Speaker 3: an athletic league. And the Sounder's got to be aware.
Speaker 3: You get caught once on the long ball, and now
Speaker 3: it's just about right as a center back, take an
Speaker 3: extra yard or two as you drop. As soon as
Speaker 3: you see one of their backs put their head down,
Speaker 3: especially playing four in the back, you know they're going
Speaker 3: to have to look long because the Sounders are going
Speaker 3: to have numbers in the middle to match up.
Speaker 1: Well, it feels Brad that goal is kind of symbolic
Speaker 1: of the sound a season so preventable goals, in ability
Speaker 1: to clear the lines and look at someone like Jackson
Speaker 1: Rag and play the candidate over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: really just the inability to squeeze that ball and looked
Speaker 1: somewhat static and the Sounders just give up another sloppy goal,
Speaker 1: as he did last week, of course against San Jose.
Speaker 3: Now, the one thing about getting scored on early is
Speaker 3: you got a good eighty five minutes to get one
Speaker 3: in the back of the net and salvage draw at least.
Speaker 3: The Sounders just have to calm down, get a little
Speaker 3: bit more comfortable on the ball, keep possession, find out
Speaker 3: what the rhythm of this game is going to be
Speaker 3: before they get too anxious. Sound is a new three
Speaker 3: back system.
Speaker 1: Yeamo has the ball and this near side the right
Speaker 1: cuts it inside square to Vargas driving forward. Good chapel,
Speaker 1: things about Lasana coming back, but the ball squeezes over
Speaker 1: to the far side to Rothrock. Little cutback double teamed
Speaker 1: on that left hand side, comes back to roll Done,
Speaker 1: who switched the point of attack square to Yemo down
Speaker 1: the line into Ferrara and needs a good game tonight,
Speaker 1: does Jesus Ferrara? Can he get on the board for
Speaker 1: his first Sounders goals The ball goes back to that man.
Speaker 2: Ferrara had a good.
Speaker 1: Second half against San Jose, dropping into that pocket fush.
Speaker 1: Danny Masowski came on at halftime, did a good job,
Speaker 1: wasn't able to shake off and niggling injury joined the
Speaker 1: week that he picked up last week against San Jose's
Speaker 1: on the bench. See if he comes on and makes
Speaker 1: a similar impact as he did last week. Sound is
Speaker 1: gonna need something. One thing for sure is you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to score a goal to at least get back
Speaker 1: into this game as the Sounders have it with Rosnek
Speaker 1: goalscorer of course last week against San Jose. Here comes
Speaker 1: Rothrock down the left hand side, cuts it his preferred
Speaker 1: right foot, comes inside inside the eighteen.
Speaker 2: Yard box, strike just wide by Russneck.
Speaker 1: He picked it up inside the eighteen yard box, just
Speaker 1: dropped it on his right foot and just squeeze it
Speaker 1: wide to the post goal kick.
Speaker 2: It means one nil San Diego, but good chance for
Speaker 2: the Sounders.
Speaker 3: Look at this replay. Paul Rothrock does so well on
Speaker 3: that left hand side. And what we've criticized Paul Rothrock
Speaker 3: is in previous games he's just putting his head down
Speaker 3: and running and just being calm, knowing that the Sounders
Speaker 3: are gonna maintain possession on top of the eighteen and
Speaker 3: if you do that, someone is gonna fall asleep on
Speaker 3: San Diego and Snack pops up in a perfect spot.
Speaker 3: That's what he loves to do, right, He likes to
Speaker 3: come across his body and try to find that near
Speaker 3: posts and the Sounders, unlucky there is up one's skates,
Speaker 3: just passing your post.
Speaker 1: Sandiego build out the back of course, this new ability
Speaker 1: for players and teams to build inside the six yard box.
Speaker 1: They managed to work it out down their left hand side.
Speaker 1: Down the line. It goes to Drey who just aes
Speaker 1: and knock it back into the path of delatory, picked
Speaker 1: up well by the Sounder's midfield, and then they shift
Speaker 1: it from center to far side the left to Paul Rothrock,
Speaker 1: who's he's.
Speaker 2: Finding his feet again.
Speaker 1: Of course, Stella the year last year, five goals in
Speaker 1: his You'll Breakout campaign for the Sounders.
Speaker 2: He's playing on that left hand side today.
Speaker 1: Of course, Ariola essentially could have been in that slot,
Speaker 1: was marked in and penciled in, but the ACL injury,
Speaker 1: of course, picked up on the road just a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, has taken him out of contention most likely
Speaker 1: for the entire season, and then of course some of
Speaker 1: the quirky MLS rules it does allow the Sounders to
Speaker 1: backfill that. And Ryan Kent from all highlights looks a
Speaker 1: really dynamic player, both what the players have seen up
Speaker 1: front and personal at long A Becas, but also from
Speaker 1: the highlights shown and San Diego Brad are playing with
Speaker 1: fire but lots of comfortence.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so. I was just gonna say, they're gonna
Speaker 3: get caught on one of these if they're going to
Speaker 3: play out of the back inside the six with ten
Speaker 3: or twelve passes. I mean, credit to them. Are sticking
Speaker 3: to their guns. But you're, like you said, you're playing
Speaker 3: with fire back there. And roth Rock commits a foul,
Speaker 3: But it's about the pressure, right When you see San
Speaker 3: Diego line up against against our Sounders with the three
Speaker 3: in the back, they're basically man for man up top,
Speaker 3: and you see how tight they are. They're really just
Speaker 3: forcing the Sounders in a block of six to play
Speaker 3: on one side of the field, and it's really difficult
Speaker 3: to switch the point of attack with three guys because
Speaker 3: he ultimately got both your right left sided center back
Speaker 3: pulled all the way wide, and it puts you in
Speaker 3: a precarious position to play out the back. So that
Speaker 3: big switch is going to be on for the Sounders.
Speaker 2: Sound As have figured it out.
Speaker 1: High pressed by the sound of San Diego again, managed
Speaker 1: to going to pull it out to say quicks long
Speaker 1: by frank Ernegri. But somehow the San Diego men in
Speaker 1: Midnight Navy tonight picked the ball up middle of the
Speaker 1: park is goalscorer. It's Versekov who flicks it to the
Speaker 1: right hand side, cut back to Delatory, scuffs his shot,
Speaker 1: and then there's Valacari on the back side slides in
Speaker 1: see if he maybe he was an offside position. It
Speaker 1: does scoot over the end line for a goal kick
Speaker 1: for the Sounders here early in the game, they're still
Speaker 1: down one nail, but San Diego is still knocking on
Speaker 1: that door try to find that second goal.
Speaker 3: He's on side there as well, and I think I
Speaker 3: think Delator is looking to shoot that ball and he
Speaker 3: scuffs it just a little bit but look at that.
Speaker 3: If he slides a couple inches earlier, he might put
Speaker 3: that one in the in the back of the net.
Speaker 3: And that's one where new Who gets pulled all the
Speaker 3: way over because you're only playing with three in the
Speaker 3: back and you're playing with fire. For the Sounders going
Speaker 3: three against three, new who gets pulled all the way over?
Speaker 3: And where do you where do you find the space?
Speaker 3: Then new Who's vacated the left hand side. So san
Speaker 3: Diego being smart, we got to switch the point of
Speaker 3: it a tack and they do. They end up with
Speaker 3: a good opportunity.
Speaker 1: So obviously going down a goal early with three versus three,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned at four to three to three, that
Speaker 1: San Diego put out three to four to three, that
Speaker 1: the Sounders do within the Sounders would have tried to
Speaker 1: keep things tight, maybe drop Rothrock in a little bit deeper,
Speaker 1: just kind of stem the flow against the home team.
Speaker 1: But now it changes the whole dynamics of the game.
Speaker 3: Well, it's difficult because in a four to three three,
Speaker 3: the outside back can still move forward. So it to
Speaker 3: me a four through three is a bit more fluid, right.
Speaker 3: It gives you some more options for your outside backs
Speaker 3: to play with two true center backs. So the sounders
Speaker 3: are gonna have to be careful. And we know that
Speaker 3: Paul Rothrock isn't an out and out and defender, and
Speaker 3: we certainly know that Jesus isn't going to really fill
Speaker 3: in on that side. So it's gonna be Alex's duty
Speaker 3: to sit home a little bit more and create four
Speaker 3: in the back.
Speaker 1: Good little flick as Rothrock strikes it dright down the
Speaker 1: gut of does Santos. Easy save in the end, but
Speaker 1: good build up by the sound as it came from
Speaker 1: some high press again San Diego, try to build out
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 2: Back, and it was George.
Speaker 1: He was able to take it down on his chest
Speaker 1: playing high up for that number nine, and we'll see
Speaker 1: how that works out. I think Brian Schetzer and I
Speaker 1: had a conversation just a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: I said, you have a thought about putting Georgie up
Speaker 1: front of it creates some chaos, And he wasn't too
Speaker 1: it was in his mindset. But I think just Georgia
Speaker 1: could be that little dynamic You just don't know what
Speaker 1: you get to get from him, and it prevent could
Speaker 1: create some of those pockets of space for Ferrara to
Speaker 1: try and expose.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what you're gonna get, You're gonna get
Speaker 3: speed and in that unpredictability and you just can't teach speed.
Speaker 3: And that's why the sounders have been so successful with
Speaker 3: Jordan up top is it's always been that release valve
Speaker 3: for the sounders, and when you don't have them up top,
Speaker 3: the sounders tend to play a little bit differently than usual.
Speaker 3: So Georgia can provide a little bit of chaos because
Speaker 3: as a center back, we love watching film against the forward.
Speaker 3: We get an idea on how he likes to play.
Speaker 3: Or when you sub in a guy who really is
Speaker 3: an out and out winger and then you put him
Speaker 3: up top, don't know what you're gonna be up against,
Speaker 3: so it makes you play a little bit more withdrawn
Speaker 3: until you know thirty forty minutes into the game, san
Speaker 3: Diego will pick up more on his instincts. But the sounders,
Speaker 3: with the ability here to go ahead and press right,
Speaker 3: put this team under pressure. The release sal's got to
Speaker 3: be long.
Speaker 1: As McNair knocks it, long as precious, and the Sounders
Speaker 1: came it was challenged by Yama on the halfway line
Speaker 1: wins the free kick physical battle I think it was
Speaker 1: with Valacari. Sounders are going to have a free kick
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Speaker 1: fluff clearance by Dos Santos top of the box, Sounders
Speaker 1: win it flick around the corner by Rosnik finds Rothrock
Speaker 1: left corner of the eighteen yard box. Sounders have done
Speaker 1: well in the last couple of minutes, putting some high
Speaker 1: press and then pocket picked by Valacari on Roll Dan
Speaker 1: down their right hand side fast side. The right is
Speaker 1: San Diego. In transition, ball comes back to Valacari. Can't
Speaker 1: handle that pass as the Sounders win a foul good
Speaker 1: Doy runs into the back of roll Dan and that's
Speaker 1: all the experience you need, just sees the pressure come
Speaker 1: goes down. Free kick Sounders remains one nil here in
Speaker 1: the thirteenth minute snap Dragon Stadium in beautiful southern California,
Speaker 1: San Diego.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, as a youngster, I wish someone
Speaker 3: would have taught me that earlier. I mean my youth
Speaker 3: career is just feel a little bit of pressure and
Speaker 3: just fall on the ground. You're gonna get the you're
Speaker 3: gonna get the foul called. It's a learned thing, right,
Speaker 3: Like you said, it's true experience that you learn these
Speaker 3: little nuances of the game, because we've all been taught
Speaker 3: to be this tough player and stay on your feet
Speaker 3: and make sure you ride out the challenge. But at
Speaker 3: this level it's inches. It's the tiny little things that
Speaker 3: can make a difference, and it's a little bit of
Speaker 3: savviness that Christian Roldon has gained over the years. It
Speaker 3: gets us out of trouble.
Speaker 2: That's probably where we learned the game.
Speaker 1: I think England and in the US pro teacher those
Speaker 1: tools of the trade. But if you're in southern South
Speaker 1: America or in Europe, probably learning that as a young kid.
Speaker 1: Santo now win the ball down inside the h and
Speaker 1: yard box, Les Lazano tricky play, good block by Reagan
Speaker 1: this time picked up by Leffle said, and on the
Speaker 1: right side, here comes Drea down the right hand side
Speaker 1: is Leftles set and flicks up off new Who's going
Speaker 1: to bounce through it's going to stay in bounds. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a sliced, hooked cross up into the night sky,
Speaker 1: headed down and away by Alex rolled On. Of course,
Speaker 1: gave that ball away to give up the goal against
Speaker 1: San Josey this time knocks it down the line that's
Speaker 1: picked up by goalscorer Diverse Cough as San Diego gets
Speaker 1: settled in McNair former Man United Sundland middlesbrough Man playing
Speaker 1: alongside McVeigh, as we mentioned, came over from the East
Speaker 1: Coast DC United. Of course, any new franchises starting from
Speaker 1: complete scratch, and it does feel San Diego a little
Speaker 1: bit like the Sounders have really.
Speaker 2: Come and look comfortable.
Speaker 1: Is It's not gonna be any egos. Yes, Cuculuzano is
Speaker 1: a big time player, big time name, but the rest
Speaker 1: of them just feel like they fit in. This of
Speaker 1: course is right to Dream Network as well, that they've
Speaker 1: really kind of found players through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, my next comment was going to be how
Speaker 3: comfortable it is when you're a new expansion side playing
Speaker 3: in an environment like they have at Snapdragon, Right. You
Speaker 3: saw it with Saint Louis when they came into the league,
Speaker 3: and it's just that boost that the crowd gives you.
Speaker 3: And once you get that first victory, now you know
Speaker 3: what it feels like to win at home and the
Speaker 3: crowd is behind you. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you get that little boost of energy and off you go.
Speaker 3: You're beating teams that you probably shouldn't beat on any day.
Speaker 1: Good challenge just now who perfect challenge one v one
Speaker 1: versus Maine Men Andreas Dryer. This ball goes down the line,
Speaker 1: Georgia can't make it run into the channel.
Speaker 2: It's going to roll all the way through to De.
Speaker 1: Santos, but fixing Reagan lost a back in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field again and the ball got scooted out.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, Brad, when you play three to back,
Speaker 1: if a defender sip steps up doesn't win the ball,
Speaker 1: then you can get exposed on those outsides as Lozano
Speaker 1: goes and clashes with rolls On.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll be interesting because I think Alex roll Don
Speaker 3: at this point is probably thinking, why don't I just
Speaker 3: sit back and support our back four because Chook is
Speaker 3: cheating so far high all our other center backs seem
Speaker 3: to be one for one sch Matts Wackett. Why don't
Speaker 3: I just sit at home and then attack when the
Speaker 3: space is in front of me.
Speaker 1: Good quick play by San Diego at the foot of Valacari.
Speaker 1: Inside the attack in half of the field, there's Della Torri,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, San Diego native is on loan from
Speaker 1: Celta Vigo time of course at Fulham English Premier League
Speaker 1: and also in the Ari Divisier and Hollands. The ball
Speaker 1: down the left hand, so I go, is it Negri?
Speaker 1: He's gonna whipple on the six? Cleared by Jackson Reagan,
Speaker 1: sounders all across the board now, blankets of space opening
Speaker 1: up in transition. San Diego. I really enjoying their football
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they can smell something right and it's Alex Roldan
Speaker 3: tucking inside being out of position. Where's the space out
Speaker 3: on the wings? If I'm San Diego, I want Jemar
Speaker 3: to come out wide. I want to pull him out
Speaker 3: into open spaces so I can make a little move.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's got a foul or I beat him, and
Speaker 3: then it's there's only two center backs in the box.
Speaker 3: Is gonna be new Who and Jackson? Those will be
Speaker 3: the only ones in the box for San Diego.
Speaker 1: Two arms up in the air, corner cack for San
Speaker 1: Diego with Lozano on their left hand side, instringly with
Speaker 1: his ro foot top of the six ball benches up,
Speaker 1: there's a hamball came off Valakari. I think when he
Speaker 1: challenged for the ball, it's gonna be a free kick
Speaker 1: for the Sounders. Inside their eighteen yard books and Branchmetto
Speaker 1: talked about San Diego being quality on set pieces, both
Speaker 1: offensively and strong defensively. Sounders actually second in the league
Speaker 1: full number of corner kicks, but just haven't been able
Speaker 1: to execute as much as they would have liked the
Speaker 1: type of chances they have and the type of size
Speaker 1: that the Sounders have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I don't think the Sounders in the past
Speaker 3: four or five years have been very good at finishing
Speaker 3: set piece opportunities, whether it's corner kicks or from outside
Speaker 3: the box. Now Albert Rusnak with a career year last year, Yes,
Speaker 3: the service was good and the Sounders found their way
Speaker 3: on a few occasions, but they're not known as a
Speaker 3: set piece team throughout this league, so they're gonna they're
Speaker 3: gonna have to do it by pure numbers, right law
Speaker 3: of averages. The more corner kicks we can get the better,
Speaker 3: better opportunities we get to put the ball on the
Speaker 3: back of the net.
Speaker 1: Yep sixty three corners coming into this game. Took them
Speaker 1: over one hundred corner last season to get their first
Speaker 1: goal from a set piece. Sanders have it fast side
Speaker 1: to the left with rothrug Sound is getting settled in.
Speaker 2: Trying to find a way back into the game.
Speaker 1: As the ball goes into Georgie top of the eighteen
Speaker 1: Yardbocks just can't get away from it. As the ball
Speaker 1: goes off Georgie from a tackle for McNair's he came across,
Speaker 1: but good inside set ball through the middle of the
Speaker 1: back four. Georgie had a sniff of a chance. He
Speaker 1: goes over the end line for a goal kick.
Speaker 3: And that's a fantastic ball from Jackson. It's just his
Speaker 3: second touch that fails him. But what a tackle there
Speaker 3: coming in leaving your feet. That's desperation at its finest
Speaker 3: right there from the center back for San Diego and Georgie.
Speaker 3: Unlucky there, but that ball, that's a split ball that
Speaker 3: you have to have as a center back. If you
Speaker 3: have that in your bag, you're gonna play at the
Speaker 3: next level and have a long career right splitting lines.
Speaker 3: You basically take out six guys with one pass. The
Speaker 3: Sounder is going to need more of that tonight as
Speaker 3: the field becomes more narrow and narrow.
Speaker 1: You'll play by rolled On pulled it out a nice
Speaker 1: sky one touch pass into his brother Alex as he
Speaker 1: rolls the ball all the way back to Seph and
Speaker 1: fright full magenta tonight, top to toe as the Sounders captain.
Speaker 1: As he rolls it out to this near side to Alex,
Speaker 1: Roldan shifts the point of play.
Speaker 2: From this right side to the far side of the left.
Speaker 1: Anew who ask him for some help in front, goes
Speaker 1: back to Jackson Reagan as the Sounders build in possession.
Speaker 1: Nineteenth minute here snap Dragon Stadium, San Diego. Early second
Speaker 1: minute goal by San Diego puts them up one nill.
Speaker 1: Sounders trying to find themselves back into the game and
Speaker 1: his hiss Frere isn't able to control that ball. As
Speaker 1: Sandy Who's back line again build out the back Sounders
Speaker 1: are going to put some high press, as they've done
Speaker 1: on a number of occasions so far. San Diego have
Speaker 1: built out well. Just takes one though Sanders are sniffing
Speaker 1: out that chance. Can they win the ball high up
Speaker 1: the field and challenge Dos Santos eight goals four, eight
Speaker 1: goals against the season for the Sounders offensively.
Speaker 2: Has not been what they've done last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Top defense in the in MLS over the last two
Speaker 1: years they were on top of the podium on themselves
Speaker 1: with thirty five goals against last year and the thirty
Speaker 1: two goals and then the previous year tied with Nashville.
Speaker 3: Well, the teams that that that vibe for a supporter shield, right,
Speaker 3: you look at their records, you look at their goals against.
Speaker 3: They don't commit the silly errors throughout the season. And
Speaker 3: whether that's a matter of just being unlucky in moments
Speaker 3: or it's a moment of shutting off and just thinking
Speaker 3: that good things are going to happen. The teams I
Speaker 3: win the supporter shield and find themselves in great position
Speaker 3: are clearly switched on the entire season from game one
Speaker 3: and the Sounders just haven't showed it quite yet.
Speaker 1: As rolled down, feeling the pressure again this time Valacari,
Speaker 1: this time in a much more dangerous position, twenty five
Speaker 1: yards out from goal, left of center. He saw the
Speaker 1: pressure coming from Valakari absorbed the hit, went down, wins
Speaker 1: the free kick. Sounders have a chance in twenty first
Speaker 1: minute free kick. As we said, just seven yards or
Speaker 1: so outside the eighteen yard bucks.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a.
Speaker 1: Delivery or they gonna try and take a pop on goal.
Speaker 1: It's ru'sneck over it with his right foot. Sound as
Speaker 1: big men are in it is on goals. Could he
Speaker 1: flicked forward looking for maybe a flick from a slashing
Speaker 1: run from rolled on it bounces through to Dosentos, remains
Speaker 1: San Diego. One sound is Nail bred Evans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right. I think he's looking for
Speaker 3: a little deflection there. And the way that Rusnak strikes
Speaker 3: the ball, it's a bit of he comes over the
Speaker 3: top of the ball, so it likes to dip. And
Speaker 3: if you don't catch that one just perfect, it's only
Speaker 3: gonna be a foot or two off the ground and
Speaker 3: not really give that ball a chance to swerve at
Speaker 3: the goalkeeper. But listen to MLS three sixty before this,
Speaker 3: they talk about the preview for our game, and you
Speaker 3: know Dax is saying that Albert's one of the best
Speaker 3: players in this league, so he needs to show it
Speaker 3: in this game, and he will. He'll find pockets to
Speaker 3: Sound obviously go down one nothing early in this one,
Speaker 3: but Albert's gonna show his class. He's already got two
Speaker 3: strikes on goal, but he's got to be the player
Speaker 3: in this one to really take over that midfield and
Speaker 3: unbalanced the San Diego team well.
Speaker 1: Tonight's match is presented by the Western Washington Toyota Dealers
Speaker 1: as San Diego come again in transition won the ball
Speaker 1: off Roth right down the far side the right with
Speaker 1: Luffelsend goes back to Drea, top goal scorer for San
Speaker 1: Diego this season with three goals. San Diego build in possession.
Speaker 1: Eleven men behind the ball for the Sounders as they
Speaker 1: absorbed this pressure back three step up compact the field
Speaker 1: to play by McVeigh. Wriggles out of pressure from Georgia
Speaker 1: comes back to Paddie McNair. Came back from international duty
Speaker 1: with Northern Ireland just a few days ago, very much
Speaker 1: like Knew who did after his World Cup qualifying exploits
Speaker 1: with Cameroon just a few weeks ago. Sounders now have it.
Speaker 3: You love San Diego's idea, right, I'm sure Before the
Speaker 3: game and during practice, this week. They were saying, hey,
Speaker 3: we're gonna smash that ball forward if we get if
Speaker 3: we get the first kick at this thing, and then
Speaker 3: if we get a corner kick, we're taking it quick,
Speaker 3: as quick as possible, just to unbalance the Sounders, see
Speaker 3: if they're awake, and fortunate for San Diego, unfortunate for
Speaker 3: the Sounders. It happens a minute and a halfpen into
Speaker 3: this game, and I just don't think the Sounders were
Speaker 3: really switched on, and San Diego's now punished.
Speaker 1: Them good win by Yama rolls a wall quickly into Farrera,
Speaker 1: then square inside Alex Schrolder and pinching him from his
Speaker 1: right backs, but clips it towards Russneck. Rothrock's on the
Speaker 1: far side, wide open as a slashing run by Russneck.
Speaker 1: He dragged Luffel send in the spaces over the top,
Speaker 1: goes all the way through to the goalkeeper.
Speaker 3: There's more high press from the Sounders here though, four.
Speaker 1: Men top of the bucks right now they're allowing San
Speaker 1: Diego just to play. And now they go with Georgie.
Speaker 1: I don't know just Sandsos knows the speed of George.
Speaker 1: You've been knowing way almost gets to on it good
Speaker 1: step by the Sounders are new. They've done a really
Speaker 1: good job putting pressure on and then winning that second.
Speaker 2: Ball, and the ball does go long.
Speaker 1: Sounders have it twenty five yards from the end line,
Speaker 1: left side with Rothrock now eighteen yards from the end line,
Speaker 1: cuts back on his right foot, goes back to New
Speaker 1: in support.
Speaker 2: Even with a back.
Speaker 1: Three New who far up the field on that left
Speaker 1: hand side. Rothrock goes inside. It comes Vargas alongside the
Speaker 1: eighteen yard box, chance to shoot, rolls it out to
Speaker 1: this near side to Alex, rolled on closed down by
Speaker 1: Negri Good defending his Yemar gets pushed in the back.
Speaker 1: Referees right there, no foul given. Rolled on skipping down
Speaker 1: the right hand side back to his brother. Alex clips
Speaker 1: it in and Rare was just winding up. Ball clear
Speaker 1: by San Diego. Goodoy goes down, feels the pressure. He
Speaker 1: wins a free kick this time. Does the panamanium uses
Speaker 1: that all that experience. It's gonna be a free kick
Speaker 1: for San Diego and they continue to lead here one nill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine from the Sounders. This is the replay
Speaker 3: from earlier, that ball being slipped in. That's good from
Speaker 3: the Sounder. So that's that high press, and I think
Speaker 3: San Diego knows if they go long, the Sounders are
Speaker 3: going to win that ball every single time. So they're
Speaker 3: hedging their bets that they can play out of the
Speaker 3: back and that one of the Sounders is gonna fall asleep.
Speaker 3: What I want to see out of Georgie is once
Speaker 3: he has that explosive step, you're baiting the keeper to
Speaker 3: have the ball. I want to see him slide. Why
Speaker 3: not slide If you get cut and he comes back
Speaker 3: the other way, fine, But if he gets put under
Speaker 3: pressure and he does decide to swing at the ball,
Speaker 3: you got to be there with your foot in line
Speaker 3: and swing at it.
Speaker 1: And that was a prime example. He's right there. All
Speaker 1: you need is a slide, tackle, deflection, and the goalkeepers
Speaker 1: inside his six yard bucks and now he gives it
Speaker 1: away to Ferrara, whips it in quickly, bull bounces through
Speaker 1: the top of the box, a rough thrut strike, deflection,
Speaker 1: corner kick Sounders. But the high press is working, and
Speaker 1: as Brad Evans just mentioned, Georgie was a whisk away
Speaker 1: from winning it, eventually giving a web up by the goalkeeper,
Speaker 1: comes in quickly by Ferrera, pop shot by roth Rock deflected.
Speaker 1: I think he's off Doy. It's gonna be a corner
Speaker 1: kick for the Sounders.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm watch my indoor team from Wednesday
Speaker 3: nights try to play out the back, and they're playing
Speaker 3: with fire, just like we do it. If it works out,
Speaker 3: you look amazing, and if not, it ends up with
Speaker 3: something on goal for the opposite team and the sound
Speaker 3: is unlucky there. It's a little deflection with a great
Speaker 3: strike from Paul Rothrock.
Speaker 1: Short corner whipped in now by Rauznek on this right side.
Speaker 1: All pops up in the EBB via San Diego clearance.
Speaker 2: Can't win it.
Speaker 1: Flicks up forward by Drea, headed down by roll Down.
Speaker 2: Two Rolldan brothers.
Speaker 1: Coming together as Yamo clashes into I think it was
Speaker 1: Valacari looking for the ball down the line till Lozano
Speaker 1: goes out on this near side for a Sounders throw.
Speaker 1: As we get here in the twenty sixth minute snap
Speaker 1: Dragon Stadium, San Diego, first ever game between these two teams.
Speaker 1: San Diego, of course, the newest MLS franchise five hundred
Speaker 1: plus million dollars it costs to buy this franchise, and
Speaker 1: this opportunity to come in as the thirtieth MLS franchise.
Speaker 1: Thirty years of celebration, sheer, thirty years of MLS.
Speaker 2: Thirty teams.
Speaker 1: The league has come some way since similar the days
Speaker 1: I played. When I came into the league in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two, it.
Speaker 2: Was ten teams.
Speaker 3: I think I was twelve.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's mister young grown a little bit.
Speaker 3: Well, you just saw Schmidtz on the sideline they got
Speaker 3: they got video of the perfect time to get Schmetz
Speaker 3: on camera. Just put up his hands and say switch.
Speaker 3: So Georgie's gonna come out here to the right hand side.
Speaker 3: Farrera's gonna go up top as the number nine. And
Speaker 3: you know, I don't mind Georgie up top, but I
Speaker 3: guess a tactical decision. Let's see what Faria can do
Speaker 3: up top, see if we can get him more involved.
Speaker 3: He's been pretty quiet in this first app. But I
Speaker 3: think San Diego knows that right. They know that Ferrera
Speaker 3: is gonna be the guy that the Sounders go to. Now,
Speaker 3: let's bring Georgie out wide and see if he can
Speaker 3: shake things up.
Speaker 1: As Lazano cuts it past, Yama comes all the way
Speaker 1: across the center, of the park. But the Sounders do
Speaker 1: win it with rawork. He's gonna whip it through.
Speaker 2: The right in front of the referee.
Speaker 1: Easy foul, so fun Now yellow cards give him by
Speaker 1: the referees. Good Dory pulls him down. You're free kicking
Speaker 1: inside this unders half of the field. The sound as
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Speaker 1: Just over fifteen minutes or so of this first half
Speaker 1: to go. Can the Sounders find a way back into
Speaker 1: this game?
Speaker 2: As they trail one goal to nil.
Speaker 1: Against new boy San Diego Golf to a flying start
Speaker 1: first game.
Speaker 2: Of the season. Could it get any more difficult going.
Speaker 1: Up against La Galaxy MLS chems at La But they
Speaker 1: went in there it came out with a two nil win.
Speaker 1: The ball goes down the right inside. Now the Sounders
Speaker 1: have it to Georgia. Can he tests against negrig good
Speaker 1: one v one defending by the San Diego left back
Speaker 1: signed for Miami Argentinian one goal of his season so far.
Speaker 3: That's really good defending there. That's my worst nightmare is
Speaker 3: going up against someone like Georgie right, and it's all
Speaker 3: about just keeping your feet, keeping your balance. You're always
Speaker 3: gonna throw at least a move or two in and
Speaker 3: you just can't bite at the first one. And he
Speaker 3: does everything right there. That's what you want from Georgie,
Speaker 3: right is that isolation. But one thing we've talked about
Speaker 3: with Georgie is that move has to come earlier. He
Speaker 3: is so fast that the move doesn't have to come
Speaker 3: right bumped up against the defender. He can do it
Speaker 3: with time and space. All it is is shifting the
Speaker 3: weight of the defender.
Speaker 2: Delatroy drives forward, wins won by rolled on. Well.
Speaker 1: He comes the ball to Georgie now right side of
Speaker 1: the box, whips it in, does it go one b one?
Speaker 1: Ball gets flicked up by Leffel send. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a corner kick. Inadvertent clearance by the San Diego right
Speaker 1: back goes up and over. It's gonna be a corner
Speaker 1: kick for the Sounders. Can they make San Diego pay?
Speaker 1: And look at the down of the replay. Was Georgie
Speaker 1: had some time and space in the right corner of
Speaker 1: the box And that's why Brad you're talking about And
Speaker 1: he's a drive against the defender.
Speaker 3: Yeah he can, but you know a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: ago against I think LAFC. He whipped in that ball
Speaker 3: from a deep lying space in and around the defenders
Speaker 3: and Jordan Morris finishes and that ball just isn't on
Speaker 3: the right mark, but the Sounders end up with a
Speaker 3: corner kick with good transition play.
Speaker 1: Sunder's getting back in the game. Fifty to fifty in
Speaker 1: possessions so far for the Sounders. So the knocking ball
Speaker 1: comes in, headed down by Reagan, headed clear by the
Speaker 1: San Diego back line, picked up by Vargas who.
Speaker 2: Asked for a throw in.
Speaker 1: Nothing given, He's gonna run over and try and pick
Speaker 1: it up off Lozano, of course, fellow countryman. Now after
Speaker 1: Vargas committed himself to the Mexican national team, most recently
Speaker 1: to the U twenty camp, went to Europe to Spain,
Speaker 1: bits some friend lies, but he's been involved in the
Speaker 1: national team camp and Cuculazana's trying to get back into
Speaker 1: the national team set up before the twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: Wold Cup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what a great opportunity for Obed. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's got to be one of his idols, right, one
Speaker 3: of the best players to play for Mexico. Consistently, but
Speaker 3: he's also had an incredible career overseas. And that's a
Speaker 3: conversation for after the game, right, you got to be
Speaker 3: looking forward to that one if you could be a
Speaker 3: fly on the wall. And if I'm mobed, I'm asking
Speaker 3: him what do I do? What do I do to
Speaker 3: take my game to the next level? What do I
Speaker 3: do to give myself a best chance at making a
Speaker 3: World Cup with Mexico? Whatever it may be? He should
Speaker 3: take this opportunity to really pick Chooky's brain bill.
Speaker 1: Down the left hand side of the sound is here
Speaker 1: they come again? Can they find something? Ball whipped in,
Speaker 1: headed clear by McVeigh, picked up by goalscorer to verse
Speaker 1: CoV good calm play goes out to Luffel send. It's
Speaker 1: been all across the Mountain West region RSL Colorado. Now
Speaker 1: he finds himself down in San Diego. Has a efficient
Speaker 1: player since his introduction to the league in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: Wins.
Speaker 1: A thrown on the far side slows things down to
Speaker 1: get here in the final fifteen minutes of the first half.
Speaker 1: Don't leave us at halftime, Jackson, Pete and Mars were
Speaker 1: we back to break everything down? Sounders looking for way
Speaker 1: back into this game as Lozano's striding forward looks fit
Speaker 1: and healthy right now as it plays the ball to
Speaker 1: the far side the right to Drea tries to clip
Speaker 1: it over. Now who wins the ball on the sly tackle,
Speaker 1: But it does go over the end line and there's
Speaker 1: going to be a corner kick for San Diego.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when this game is starting to look like the
Speaker 3: San Jose game, a little bit, a bit more stretched
Speaker 3: than I think the Sounders would like to away from home.
Speaker 3: In years past we've seen we've seen the Sounders go
Speaker 3: away from home, play five in the back and really
Speaker 3: lock things down. It seems like this year the Sounders
Speaker 3: are happy to go away from home, take their chances,
Speaker 3: and before you know it, this one's getting stretched.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a corner kick from top man. Drea
Speaker 1: whips it in with his left foot in swinger flicked
Speaker 1: over by the verse, Kov finds the foot of good
Speaker 1: Joy no real pressure is able to clip it in,
Speaker 1: then headed away by Yama strike down wide.
Speaker 2: Of Stephan Frre's post.
Speaker 1: Is gonna be a goal kick for the Sounders here
Speaker 1: in a thirty second minute San Diego won Sounders nil
Speaker 1: nice open games so far, bratt in these first thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what the Sounders have to have to
Speaker 3: be careful of, right. It's all about transition and the
Speaker 3: Sounders aren't typically a transition based team, and that's why
Speaker 3: you leave things open in the back. A team like
Speaker 3: LAFC love to play in transition.
Speaker 1: Paul giving away cheaply, then Sounders asking for some help
Speaker 1: as mean as alechrol Don goes down to the deck.
Speaker 1: Now Sounders' shirts surrounding the referee. We know the new
Speaker 1: rules coming to play this year where the captain has
Speaker 1: to be the individual.
Speaker 2: Who's challenging the referee.
Speaker 1: They're trying to get away from players surrounding the man
Speaker 1: in the middle.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened here. If it was a
Speaker 3: quick goalkick from the Sounders that got intercepted, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure where this play went wrong, but the Sounders under
Speaker 3: the gun there.
Speaker 1: Alex rolledan back on his feet. Good news for the
Speaker 1: Sounders as the back line with Jackson yemar Anu trying
Speaker 1: to sort things out. Knew you had a nice interview
Speaker 1: this week. You haven't seen it, go listen to it.
Speaker 1: He talks thoughtfully about the Sounders and their season so far,
Speaker 1: and is could actually be a change for Alex Roldan.
Speaker 2: He got up on his feet, he was able to
Speaker 2: walk off on his own volition.
Speaker 1: But it is going to be an early change for
Speaker 1: the Sounders. And it's Koloney Coats o Rienzi like for
Speaker 1: like switch. Of course, kilaney Is first major contribution was
Speaker 1: that goal at home means LAFC the Sounders now building
Speaker 1: the back cheaply. They've been watching San Diego. But Sounders
Speaker 1: having to be able to build out is good. Do
Speaker 1: I closes down, slides over the far side, isn't able
Speaker 1: to retain the ball.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a.
Speaker 1: Toying for the Sounders.
Speaker 2: But Sandy, you're playing with some fire.
Speaker 3: So with the Sounders, Brett, Yeah, And it's it's a
Speaker 3: case of two teams that want to keep possession right
Speaker 3: and how do you do that? You have to play
Speaker 3: out of the back at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: and it's who's gonna make the mistake first and who's
Speaker 3: gonna stick to their guns. There's a clear handball, Yeah
Speaker 3: that Sounders.
Speaker 1: Fell Troy comes across. It was Colony's first introduction.
Speaker 3: My concern with Alex over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 3: is that he looked a little bit tired, and I
Speaker 3: think it's a product of how the Sounders have been playing.
Speaker 3: And now he gets bit with, you know, an injury
Speaker 3: bug here early in this one against San Diego. And
Speaker 3: for the Sounders to stay healthy, they can't just play
Speaker 3: a million miles an hour at all times, right, It's
Speaker 3: got to be a bit more of the sustained possession,
Speaker 3: sustained possession in the attacking half. And I actually got
Speaker 3: to sit down with Rothrock this week and watch a
Speaker 3: little video with him and just ask them about a
Speaker 3: couple of different things in his game, and also point
Speaker 3: out there was a moment in that San Jose game
Speaker 3: where the Sounders were on a break. Sounders had seven
Speaker 3: guys in and around the box, San Jose had four.
Speaker 3: We pull up for a shot from twenty yards. And
Speaker 3: it's just that game recognition of, hey, we can keep
Speaker 3: the ball here. If you did a practice session where
Speaker 3: you said we're going to play seven against four, you'd
Speaker 3: be locking your chops as an attacker, not you right,
Speaker 3: as a defender, you'd be like, this is the worst
Speaker 3: drill ever. And so I think it's that that recognition
Speaker 3: on the field of when we do have numbers, let's
Speaker 3: be patient and let's keep possession, and one of the
Speaker 3: San Diego players is going to eventually make a mistake. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the sound is another mistake from Jackson Reagan here.
Speaker 1: Jackson Reagan has certainly been the stop start season so
Speaker 1: far for Jackson is Let's not forget that first game
Speaker 1: of the season against Charlotte when it was Jackson's giveaway
Speaker 1: cost the Sounders three points at the very end of
Speaker 1: that game. There's a known goal by Yamar in the end,
Speaker 1: but it did come from a giveaway.
Speaker 2: By Jackson Reagan.
Speaker 1: And characteristic for the sound as defensively is one thing
Speaker 1: the Sounders have been all focused in the off season
Speaker 1: and pre season on the offensive third of the field,
Speaker 1: not thinking they have to really focus in on the defense.
Speaker 1: It has been so good, it's been some uncharacteristic mistakes,
Speaker 1: and today's goal is very synonymous and symbolic of that
Speaker 1: as well. It was early leadoff led up by the
Speaker 1: Sounders in that second minute sending you go on the borders.
Speaker 1: We get here in the thirty sixth Sounders look in
Speaker 1: to try and find that equalizing goals. That ball goes
Speaker 1: down the line farst side, the left flick through by mcveaze,
Speaker 1: it comes across challenges. Rothrop's could be the Sounders throwing
Speaker 1: deep on their left hand side. So Coloney on four,
Speaker 1: Alex rohld On, you mentioned it when you played three
Speaker 1: of the back. There's a lot of real estate to
Speaker 1: run up and down that right hand side, especially when
Speaker 1: someone like from Rare playing on that right side lights
Speaker 1: tuck into that pocket. Here's one hundred and plus yards
Speaker 1: of real estate that Alex Rohldor has to cover.
Speaker 3: Is responsible for that, and that's where you get into trouble. Right. Yes,
Speaker 3: in theory, it's great to have an out and out winger,
Speaker 3: but you're covering the entire line. You're responsible for getting forward,
Speaker 3: putting in crosses in your also responsible for recovering all
Speaker 3: the way back into your own box. And so what
Speaker 3: you see with Kolani, he's going to tuck in a
Speaker 3: little bit more because they want that overload in the midfield.
Speaker 3: They want to go four for three in the midfield
Speaker 3: at that point. But now you got to put your
Speaker 3: foot on the ball and find that four for three
Speaker 3: recognition in there.
Speaker 1: Third corner kick for the Sounders on their left hand
Speaker 1: side ball is on the foot of Rosneck looking to
Speaker 1: go short, ask him for ten yards as Drea comes across.
Speaker 1: Sounders looking to find some magic from these corner kicks.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, Andy Rose has always try to tweak
Speaker 1: and add some ingenuity in terms of what the Sounders
Speaker 1: can bring. Six shots on goals so far for the
Speaker 1: Sounders six shots in total, two shots of those on goal,
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty possession. Can the Sounders find a goal
Speaker 1: from a set piece? Ball comes in flicked over the
Speaker 1: top by rolled On, It made a slash and run
Speaker 1: to that front post, wasn't able to redirect. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a goal kick here in the thirteenth minute
Speaker 1: for San Diego as they lead.
Speaker 3: One goal to Nilay we haven't mentioned much for San
Speaker 3: Diego has been Dryer, who's been a fantastic player for them,
Speaker 3: coming in and really being that lynchpin in the attacking
Speaker 3: side of things, and the Sounders have kept them quiet
Speaker 3: for the better part of this game. Now, save save
Speaker 3: for the first goal, I think the Sounders have been
Speaker 3: pretty good so far this game. Defensively pretty good. Now
Speaker 3: it's just cleaning up a few things. We still have
Speaker 3: seen those uncharacteristic little giveaways, a mishit pass, giving up
Speaker 3: thousand deep areas, playing with fire out of the back,
Speaker 3: and just the clear cut opportunities aren't coming for the Sounders,
Speaker 3: and we'll see in this second half if they can
Speaker 3: make a change and maybe go with two up top
Speaker 3: and see how that combination works. Because if you're not
Speaker 3: creating high quality chances, you can't just live and die
Speaker 3: by the one chance that you might get. Well.
Speaker 1: Bran Schweitzer does have options coming off the bench. One
Speaker 1: of them at Dela Vega's the ball goes back for McNair,
Speaker 1: no look pass and Rothroat trying to take a chance,
Speaker 1: or gets headed forward by Georgie.
Speaker 2: We'll see how long Georgie lasts.
Speaker 1: He's spend most of his time coming off the bench,
Speaker 1: of course this season, throughout his career, a couple of
Speaker 1: arts this year and last year. But Refree's flagging, the
Speaker 1: far side goes up, Colonie comes back to defend.
Speaker 3: Well. One thing Schmiz said a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: was the relationship between Colonie and Georgie is something he
Speaker 3: was excited about. So I hope through this second half
Speaker 3: of Georgie like you said can stay on the field
Speaker 3: and stay. There's another bad giveaway from Jackson Reagan in
Speaker 3: the back and a silly fowl to follow it.
Speaker 2: Roll Doan goes.
Speaker 1: Into goodoy the middle of the park in the attack
Speaker 1: in half the field they get going quickly. Baul goes
Speaker 1: into Luffelsen to dre with his left foot choice to
Speaker 1: find a slashing run of Losano on the back post
Speaker 1: goes over the endline for a Sounder's goal kick just
Speaker 1: over five minutes to go of this first half. As
Speaker 1: the Sounders now trying to find a way back into
Speaker 1: this game before they go in the locker room. But
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Speaker 1: of Major League Soccer. As the Sounders duke build again
Speaker 1: with Stephan Frye, the foot of Vargas rolls it to
Speaker 1: Klanni on this near side, the right cuts inside, rolls
Speaker 1: it back to Jackson Reagan, who's given up a couple
Speaker 1: of balls in these last couple of minutes. He rolls
Speaker 1: at this time nice and safe out to New who
Speaker 1: far side is New who tries to.
Speaker 2: Wriggle around goodoik.
Speaker 1: He'd Alway's got that experience, puts himself between ballland player
Speaker 1: San Diego win it with del Torri thirty yards from
Speaker 1: goal central the park to Lozano comes back on his
Speaker 1: preferred right foot. There's Rosneck steps in as a nibble,
Speaker 1: doesn't win the ball given up by Lazana, picked up
Speaker 1: well by Vargas, nothing really ahead of him. Now it
Speaker 1: is Farrera striding over the halfway down and this near
Speaker 1: side the right, Georgie to his right in support. Frerera
Speaker 1: comes back, rolls it back to Kerlaney outside his foot,
Speaker 1: flicks it to Yema to rolled do. We'll see what
Speaker 1: messaging Brian Schmetz is going to give his team. As
Speaker 1: Brad mentioned, it's been a pretty good solid half so
Speaker 1: far and he Won's safe for Stephan Fry in this
Speaker 1: first half against an energized team that can score, sit
Speaker 1: on top of the Western Conference coming into today's game.
Speaker 1: As they whip it from center to far side the
Speaker 1: right to Dre inside the box as new comes back
Speaker 1: ball top of the box to good Day and that's
Speaker 1: a second goal.
Speaker 2: That's a killer.
Speaker 1: Five minutes before the end of the first half, it's
Speaker 1: San Diego in transition, ball goes out to Drea Goody
Speaker 1: in support. As the ball came back to the central
Speaker 1: midfield player, he is able to slide it past step
Speaker 1: and Fry into the bottom corner and San Diego go
Speaker 1: up two goals to nil.
Speaker 3: I want to see this replay again because we are
Speaker 3: todd If there's three in the back, the ball goes
Speaker 3: all the way ride right to Georgie. Okay, he loses
Speaker 3: the ball. Well, where's new who in that situation? If
Speaker 3: he is not tucked in as a second center back,
Speaker 3: all that space is wide open, and we watched this
Speaker 3: replay here, He's nowhere to be found on the screen.
Speaker 3: He's above halfway in that situation, leaving Jackson and Yemar
Speaker 3: left to defend on two. And then he's late to
Speaker 3: come back and it's an easy tap in for Goodoy
Speaker 3: at the near post. It's just sloppy defending for the Sounders.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, Yes, Georgie has to
Speaker 3: do better and be strong and know that it's either
Speaker 3: got to be his legs being chopped out or that
Speaker 3: ball goes out of bounds and the Sounders find themselves
Speaker 3: in a tough position worst time. To concede a goal,
Speaker 3: especially away from home.
Speaker 1: Well, Brad, you're right if you're a the scent, if
Speaker 1: you're injection rag and the balls on the far side
Speaker 1: of the right, you have to slide across.
Speaker 2: You can't stay left because there's a huge gap in
Speaker 2: the middle. You stay connected to Yama and we see position.
Speaker 3: With San Diego. They stick with three guys up. You
Speaker 3: know that they're gonna have three guys sitting up high.
Speaker 3: That's how they're set up. So the Sounders falling asleep,
Speaker 3: playing with fire and they get punished.
Speaker 1: Just uncharacteristic mistakes from the Sounders in twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: when they went to play three at the back. That
Speaker 1: committed to that lineup and they proved to be extremely successful,
Speaker 1: the likes of Knew was an All Star that year,
Speaker 1: six All Star placements for the Sounders getting off to
Speaker 1: that incredible start. Now they've got a mountain to climb
Speaker 1: as they pick up the ball inside. They're attacking half
Speaker 1: of the field with Rusnak has been relatively quiet and
Speaker 1: the certainly in the last fifteen to twenty minutes to
Speaker 1: Vargas again playing well in the middle. But we need
Speaker 1: him four to get more involved. Especially now Sound is
Speaker 1: trailing two goals to nil. As the ball goes down
Speaker 1: to the right inside rash challenged by NEGRII still not
Speaker 1: a yellow card. Goldan goes down a little talking too
Speaker 1: by but da we it's gonna be a free kick
Speaker 1: for the Sound as a chance to get back into
Speaker 1: this game. Just a handful of minutes to go before
Speaker 1: the end of this first half.
Speaker 3: Well, it seemed a few years when it was three
Speaker 3: in the back, it was really five in the back.
Speaker 3: When we watched them play, it seemed like it was
Speaker 3: more five in the back. Now it seems like it's three.
Speaker 3: And then whoever wants to go forward can go forward,
Speaker 3: and you're not seeing the pivot. If I play with
Speaker 3: three in the back and two sitting in front of
Speaker 3: me with two six's, if my right winger vacates that space,
Speaker 3: it's the job for the for the closest six to
Speaker 3: drop into that space, and then my recovery as an
Speaker 3: outside midfielder is to tuck inside right. We want to
Speaker 3: keep everything on the outside of the field, and I
Speaker 3: haven't seen that from Obed or Christian today. That cover
Speaker 3: in wide areas.
Speaker 1: All comes in from Roznik headed away by the San
Speaker 1: Diego back line, flip back in by Vargas, headed away
Speaker 1: and then hook clear by Valakari. Good headed clearance by Kilaney,
Speaker 1: but he isn't able to find as sound as player
Speaker 1: as a ball gets headed back from McVeigh back to
Speaker 1: C J J.
Speaker 2: Santos and the San Diego goal.
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 1: the ball, Sandio come out with it with Lozano looking
Speaker 1: sharp down that left hand side against young Kilaney. Good
Speaker 1: defending by Yabo is gonna have to come and slide
Speaker 1: and help the young Sounders. Right back has come off
Speaker 1: the bench replacement of Alex rolled.
Speaker 2: On have to go off.
Speaker 1: Some injury picked up, able to walk off the field,
Speaker 1: sit down, but fortune for the Sounders another injury is
Speaker 1: not what we want. Now We're starting to get players back.
Speaker 1: Peedro Delaveager on the bench today. Read Baker Whiting back
Speaker 1: from his injury. Jordan Morris just a week or two away.
Speaker 1: Of course, Ryan Kent finding some match fitness. He's going
Speaker 1: to be a burst of energy for the Sounds when
Speaker 1: he comes back. The ball gets clipped from this near.
Speaker 2: Sight to the far side.
Speaker 1: Luffls and goes down rammed into by Rothrock asking for
Speaker 1: a shoulder to shoulder is a free kick given by
Speaker 1: the referee. We'll see a replay down on our screen.
Speaker 1: Is clatter into Luffelson and hook the ball clear and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's momentum.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it might be a level of frustration.
Speaker 3: Was going to be my next time, my next one.
Speaker 3: And Klane needs to know whether Rothrock's got really only
Speaker 3: one opportunity there. And Klana just needs to keep possession.
Speaker 3: But he's in a good spot to recover the ball
Speaker 3: in the previous play. It'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 3: the Sounders do here at halftime if they make some
Speaker 3: make some shifts.
Speaker 1: Well gets caught out one ball over the top. Here's
Speaker 1: Lozano over the top. It goes and then hits the
Speaker 1: roof for the net.
Speaker 2: Sounders get a let off.
Speaker 1: It was one ball just caught the entire back line
Speaker 1: out from the free kick. I think it was Dre
Speaker 1: hook the ball over the shoulder of Kilaney got caught out.
Speaker 1: Yemar is no man's land and Lozano just clips it over.
Speaker 1: Fry isn't able to land in the back of the goal.
Speaker 1: Sandieo continued to lead to nil here. But the Sounders
Speaker 1: need to get into that locker room and get some
Speaker 1: talk into and some guidance from the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: Well, it looks like one team wants to be here
Speaker 3: and and one team is a little bit slow today,
Speaker 3: whatever that may be. But they've had a full week
Speaker 3: of training. Guys should be healthy, they should be flying.
Speaker 3: This just a great opportunity to play away from home,
Speaker 3: to be able to beat this team the first game,
Speaker 3: first team to beat this uh San Diego team in
Speaker 3: this stadium, and then you let one go in early,
Speaker 3: and then you fall asleep once again and get caught
Speaker 3: the Sounders. I think we talked to Schmidz in production.
Speaker 3: He didn't lay into them last week at San Jose.
Speaker 3: I think this is going to be a little bit different.
Speaker 3: You're going to see a little bit of a different Schmetz.
Speaker 1: All given away by Rosnik this time down the middle.
Speaker 1: It goes, it's dryer, top of the box, strikes a
Speaker 1: great hand by Fry and he goes after the rebound,
Speaker 1: picks it up, but it let off again by the
Speaker 1: sound is three minutes of added time as San Diego
Speaker 1: lead two goals to nil, and this score up is
Speaker 1: presented by Toyota. Ninety seconds or so to go, Sounders need.
Speaker 2: To hold on.
Speaker 1: Can they find a goal before they go into the
Speaker 1: locker room? Was Musovsky who came off the bench last
Speaker 1: time last week against San Jose changed the game somewhat.
Speaker 1: With a much more energized Sounder's performance in the second half,
Speaker 1: they're able to find that equalizing goal with Rosnek. Now
Speaker 1: they've got much greater task as they look wide open
Speaker 1: at times. Bull goes down this simon top of the
Speaker 1: box is Lozano strikes it back of the net.
Speaker 2: Sounder's standing.
Speaker 1: Asking for some help from the assistant referee. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna come. It came in transition again. San Diego scored
Speaker 1: three goals against LAFC last week in the first half,
Speaker 1: and they get their third goal tonight with just thirty
Speaker 1: seconds of time to go.
Speaker 3: Just the hunger your team tonight, That's all we can
Speaker 3: say so far in this first forty five minutes. Jackson
Speaker 3: Reagan has to know that there's forty five seconds left
Speaker 3: to halftime. Just get in at halftime. Instead, he tries
Speaker 3: to clip a ball in when you're three for three
Speaker 3: at the back. It's a quick turnover and look in
Speaker 3: two passes, Knew Who's pushed up the field once again
Speaker 3: and then in behind Jackson. Reagan's shoulder is the best
Speaker 3: player on the field, and that's what the best player
Speaker 3: on the field, and Chuck Gulzzano's gonna do. He's gonna
Speaker 3: put the ball in the back of the net. He's
Speaker 3: gonna turn your head and you're gonna have to walk
Speaker 3: with your head hanging low into this locker room away
Speaker 3: from home. And look, I've been a part of these games,
Speaker 3: right We've gone down to Portland and we've got smash
Speaker 3: and you have to come out in this second half
Speaker 3: and show that you want to be there because if
Speaker 3: you don't, it's going to be a long flight home
Speaker 3: for a lot of guys after this game.
Speaker 1: Yep, first goal for Tukulazana for his new club, one
Speaker 1: of the top paid.
Speaker 2: Men in MLS, and that's a really tough one.
Speaker 1: It was a tough one to con see that second
Speaker 1: goal with just five minutes to go, not a good
Speaker 1: time to give it up, and for the Sounders they
Speaker 1: give up that third goal. San Diego lead three goals
Speaker 1: to nil and they score. Update is presented by Provident Swedish.
Speaker 1: As we tick a minute past the three of added time,
Speaker 1: referee just needs to put his whistle to his mouth
Speaker 1: to get the Sounders in the locker room. Can they
Speaker 1: find some Sounders pride? So the referees whistle goes and
Speaker 1: it's been an extremely difficult and frustrating first half down
Speaker 1: in San Diego. In the second minute, Captain tversclf picked
Speaker 1: a ball up inside the eighteen yard box, able to
Speaker 1: slot it in. And then in the forty first minute
Speaker 1: it was good Dooy slid it past step from Fry
Speaker 1: into the bottom corner, and then it was Chuo ky
Speaker 1: Lazana for its first goal for his new club to
Speaker 1: make it three nil before the halftime break.
Speaker 2: Brad, your final thoughts, It was.
Speaker 3: The pressure from San Diego tonight that really put the
Speaker 3: Sounders under pressure, and it was just converting their chances right.
Speaker 3: The Sounders had a few half chances in that first
Speaker 3: half and weren't able to put the ball on the
Speaker 3: back of the net. They seem the livelier sides tonight.
Speaker 3: They look like they want to be there, right, They
Speaker 3: look like they're playing for something and the Sounders aren't.
Speaker 3: And they got a regroup at halftime, and I wish
Speaker 3: that we could have a microphone in that locker room
Speaker 3: to hear what's going on.
Speaker 1: Well, we're going to get some of that where Jackson felt,
Speaker 1: because I feel like there's gonna be a level of frustration.
Speaker 2: Coming out at halftime. And we'll take a short break here.
Speaker 1: We'll be Jackson and Pete and Mars back to break
Speaker 1: has been debt, a most disappointing first half of the
Speaker 1: Sounders down in San Diego at halftime here at Snapdragon Stadium,
Speaker 1: Send Diego, three sounds nil.
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Speaker 8: it's not pretty for your Sounders three nothing, San Diego.
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Speaker 8: here for the halftime show. I don't know, Pete, that
Speaker 8: was rough and I think it was especially rough, and
Speaker 8: I'm especially frustrated right now because San Diego score in
Speaker 8: the forty first minute to make it two to nothing,
Speaker 8: and at that point you're obviously very frustrated. But then
Speaker 8: Chucky Lozano makes it three nothing in the forty fifth
Speaker 8: plus three, and at this point you kind of just
Speaker 8: look at the defenders and look at the defending of
Speaker 8: this team and go, guys, halftime is nearing and what
Speaker 8: was that defending Pete in the final five minutes plus stoppage?
Speaker 9: Well, you got to know what's going on in the
Speaker 9: clock right there, and you can't be that high up
Speaker 9: the park. You've just got to get your down two.
Speaker 9: You want to make sure you keep it too when
Speaker 9: you go in at halftime. Moss said it before the game,
Speaker 9: and we heard Brad say it during the game. Who
Speaker 9: wants it more? Right? And that was your comment on
Speaker 9: Keys to the Match, Moss was, Who's gonna want it more?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 9: This San Diego team is very impressive. Seattle's got to
Speaker 9: play quicker. They allow San Diego to get all eleven
Speaker 9: guys behind the ball most of the time when Seattle
Speaker 9: goes and Brian talked about this this morning. We've got
Speaker 9: to play through the lines. Jackson Reagan had one really
Speaker 9: good ball to Georgia and it beats six guys, right,
Speaker 9: But most of the time these balls are not zipped
Speaker 9: from one side to the other and then expose the defense.
Speaker 9: It allows it to get behind on the other side.
Speaker 9: Holy cow, when this team goes forward, they look dangerous
Speaker 9: every single time. So I feel bad for Stephan Fry.
Speaker 9: I don't think he could do anything on the first goal,
Speaker 9: the second goal, or the third goal. He's kind of
Speaker 9: an island on his own. But you know, to all
Speaker 9: the comments that we heard from Danny and Brad Seattle
Speaker 9: right now and Brian, Brian said it this morning, he
Speaker 9: hasn't given the hair dryer treatment in the locker room,
Speaker 9: he hasn't thrown anything in the locker room. But I'll
Speaker 9: bet you right now he is furious because the lack
Speaker 9: of pride. And that's the biggest part. Lack of pride.
Speaker 9: You know, you're playing against a team that is just
Speaker 9: joined the league and they're making you look foolish right now.
Speaker 10: Yeah, coach, I mean I would add lack of pride
Speaker 10: and lack of awareness. Yeah, and we heard I thought
Speaker 10: Brad at an excellent point. I mean Danny did too,
Speaker 10: But you know, there's just too much space between the
Speaker 10: three center backs and the sixes and there's just so
Speaker 10: much space in there and the lack of awareness for
Speaker 10: either somebody to say come back or stay there and
Speaker 10: don't go up. And when you add a lack of
Speaker 10: awareness and a lack of pride and then you've got this.
Speaker 10: They just so disjointed in the three blocks. Yeah, and
Speaker 10: San Diego is able just to run roughshot whenever they want.
Speaker 8: I mean, I thought I was going to be the
Speaker 8: most critical one. But lack of awareness, lack of pride,
Speaker 8: lack of quality, lack of joy in this game right now.
Speaker 8: This is a team that's not having fun right there.
Speaker 8: And we got to talk about the second half ahead
Speaker 8: because listen, yeah, there's going to have to be a
Speaker 8: lot of changes in Brian Schmetzer. You think that he's
Speaker 8: probably lighting into him right now at Snapdragon Stadium. But
Speaker 8: three nothing, San Diego not pretty. I always mentioned that
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Speaker 15: San Diego leading the Sounders by a score of three
Speaker 15: to nothing at Snapdragon Stadium.
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Speaker 8: of Major League Soccer. All right, well, you have a
Speaker 8: Danny Mazowski on the bench. You have Pedro de Levega
Speaker 8: who could maybe give you fifteen to twenty minutes, but
Speaker 8: Pete maz I guess the question going through my head
Speaker 8: right now is what can you do to get back
Speaker 8: in this game early in the second half.
Speaker 10: Well, I think the first thing you do in this situation,
Speaker 10: as the team is right, you look at the shirt
Speaker 10: you're wearing and say, you know what, I've got to
Speaker 10: earn the right to wear this shirt for the next
Speaker 10: forty five minutes.
Speaker 3: That's one.
Speaker 10: And then tactically you make a couple of good passes.
Speaker 10: I mean you say, okay, you know what, let's fine,
Speaker 10: it's zero zero, we know it's three zero. Let's make
Speaker 10: some passes in the middle from the back, and let's
Speaker 10: see if we can't take a couple of shots, and
Speaker 10: then get into the game and stay compact on defense.
Speaker 9: Tactically, maybe you go to two upfront. I don't know
Speaker 9: who those two are, if it's Missovski coming off the bench,
Speaker 9: and get go to a four to four to two
Speaker 9: so that we don't get as exposed as we have
Speaker 9: on the counter. You don't want to give up any
Speaker 9: more goals. I mean three nothing, they can park the
Speaker 9: bus the entire time. You gotta play a little quicker too.
Speaker 9: You cannot let San Diego get set get all those
Speaker 9: guys behind the ball. They are as confident and comfortable
Speaker 9: as any team I've seen playing out of the back
Speaker 9: in MLS, And so you gotta try to keep pushing
Speaker 9: on that and try to pick something off. But maybe
Speaker 9: it's getting two guys up front. Moz is right. You
Speaker 9: gotta look at the jersey and and Brian will say
Speaker 9: something the effective. If we don't put the effort out
Speaker 9: in the second half to represent this club, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: Sounders fans to snap Dragon Stadium in San Diego and
Speaker 1: O what a toughest half that was for the Sounders.
Speaker 1: They trail three goals still against MLS New Boys San
Speaker 1: Diego FC.
Speaker 2: It was the second minute goal that got San Diego.
Speaker 1: Going by first CoV and it was good Joy in
Speaker 1: the forty first and then Lozano just before the halftime break.
Speaker 1: Seeing some changes happen already for the Sounders. We'll try
Speaker 1: and get you all of that as we get going.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Danny Lava is gonna come on the field.
Speaker 1: Albert Rosneck has taken a seat. It was a quiet
Speaker 1: first half for Albert Rosnack, but Ryan Schmittz is making
Speaker 1: his move. Danny Labor coming on most likely alightful light switch.
Speaker 1: We'll see if Danny Lava drops a little bit deeper
Speaker 1: and maybe slides up either a Vargas or roll down.
Speaker 2: But I think to start his first half.
Speaker 1: Second half for the Sounders, it's about don't give anything
Speaker 1: else away. Can they find a way back in this
Speaker 1: game early and make a game of it for the
Speaker 1: Sounders And it's not gonna happen that way, but free
Speaker 1: kick giving up the Sounders. So for the Sounders, deepen
Speaker 1: their half of the field. So to mention one change
Speaker 1: for Brian Schmetz we wondered what Brian Schmittzho would do
Speaker 1: coming out in this second half. Last week against San Jose,
Speaker 1: he was a change at half time, JP off Danny
Speaker 1: Mussovski on. This time, it's a like for like switch
Speaker 1: midfielder for midfielder with Danny Laver coming on and Albert
Speaker 1: Rosneck going off. So let's get you that lineup. Stefan
Speaker 1: freying gold, Jamar Reagan knew who Alex Roldon made way
Speaker 1: in the first off. Kilaney coming on that right hand side,
Speaker 1: Obed rolled on Paul Rothrock as the Paul goes in
Speaker 1: and just eludes Ferrero's playing more central and then you're
Speaker 1: atacking three, it's gonna be Hazu's for Georgie Munongo and
Speaker 1: then Danny Laver coming on for Albert Rosneck as your
Speaker 1: third attacking midfield option to sit behind a Farrera or
Speaker 1: even a Mnongo depending if he goes back up to
Speaker 1: that number nine slot.
Speaker 2: And for mikey Varus and San.
Speaker 1: Diego dream first half again. It was three goals last
Speaker 1: week against LFC in the first half, got their first
Speaker 1: ever win here at Snapdragon Stadium for San Diego. And
Speaker 1: there was three goals in this game against MLS powerhouse
Speaker 1: Seattle Sounders. So for San Diego it's just Santos in goal,
Speaker 1: it's Luffel Send McVeigh, McNair, Negri good dooy goal scored
Speaker 1: to Verse Calf and then Della Tory and then Drea
Speaker 1: Valakari and Tucky Lazan who got that third goal right
Speaker 1: before the halftime break for his first ever goal for
Speaker 1: San Diego Jacks. Reagan gets pressure, so I as to
Speaker 1: go back to Stephan Frey, comes off Valacari over the
Speaker 1: end Line's gonna be a goal kick and Brad Evans
Speaker 1: I was asking you a halftime what would Brian schmiz
Speaker 1: to say in this moment, would it be an arm
Speaker 1: around the shoulder?
Speaker 2: I doubt it's going to be that.
Speaker 1: Is it going to be fireworks in the hair dry treatment?
Speaker 3: Well, if our producer can throw in some noises for us,
Speaker 3: I could go on for probably three minutes, it's not
Speaker 3: gonna be. It wasn't a welcome halftime speech. I can
Speaker 3: guarantee you that, and certainly wasn't happened without happy with
Speaker 3: Albert in that first half, and whether it was due
Speaker 3: to unhappiness or just maybe athleticism being on the field,
Speaker 3: and he expects Danny to stay more centrally so that
Speaker 3: they can really shore up and go three for three
Speaker 3: in the middle middle of the pitch. But San Diego
Speaker 3: comes out hot already and putting the Sounders under pressure now.
Speaker 3: And what they'll do now is they've got the gamesmanship right.
Speaker 3: They're gonna push in the right moments. They're gonna be
Speaker 3: able to switch the point of attack like they're doing here,
Speaker 3: and Chooky's gonna take over the game and find pockets
Speaker 3: and San Diego is gonna put them under pressure. And
Speaker 3: now the Sounders have to be up to the challenge right,
Speaker 3: make it respectable. That's what I would be telling the
Speaker 3: guys as we come in for our little huddle before this.
Speaker 3: It's like, guys, we start with one and then we
Speaker 3: continue to move on from there, right, But we don't
Speaker 3: get one without doing the things right that we need to.
Speaker 3: And so just just do the small things right and
Speaker 3: we'll get a good chance. And yes, you've got to
Speaker 3: finish the chance, of course, but if we don't do
Speaker 3: the little things right, whether the it's challenging for every
Speaker 3: single ball finding something to play for at this point
Speaker 3: and just taking pride in wearing the jersey. Otherwise it's
Speaker 3: going to be a long second half of the summers.
Speaker 1: And I was going to ask you that fifty years
Speaker 1: that we celebrated last year. Lots of players coming through
Speaker 1: the franchise over that fifty years spell, and the one
Speaker 1: thing that I think each and every player probably recognizes
Speaker 1: is about the Sounders is playing with pride, playing pride
Speaker 1: with that shirt. That's probably something that Brian Schwritz is
Speaker 1: gonna lean on, certainly for his players is respond the
Speaker 1: right way, respond the way that a Sounder would.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it comes. What you're seeing now is just complacency.
Speaker 1: Bull towards the end line to Luffel sense sline tackle
Speaker 1: boy Knew who bull doesn't go out eventually doesn't this
Speaker 1: near side assistant Refreez flight goes up, go kick Sounders
Speaker 1: three nil to San Diego bred.
Speaker 3: Evans and once it is just two lacks. There's no
Speaker 3: sense of urgency here from Jackson playing out of the
Speaker 3: back and it's a it's a pass that goes right
Speaker 3: to the feet of good Doy sitting on top of
Speaker 3: the box. And so at some point de Schmid say, hey,
Speaker 3: just sit on the bench and watch from the sideline
Speaker 3: for a little bit, because you have to have guys
Speaker 3: in there that are gonna fight for every sing ball
Speaker 3: and that are going to show that they want to
Speaker 3: be out there. And yes, it's three nothing down, it's daunting,
Speaker 3: but there's still something to be had in this half.
Speaker 2: Georgie, looking to make a running behind it does find
Speaker 2: roth left.
Speaker 1: Corner of the box. Ball goes in to George isn't
Speaker 1: able to.
Speaker 2: Quite make it.
Speaker 1: Sliding recovery from the back line for San Diego or
Speaker 1: cleared up the field picked up by new who Rigo's
Speaker 1: free of Valacari has the ball left corner of the box,
Speaker 1: rolls it out to Rothrock, drops his right shoulder, goes
Speaker 1: towards the end line with his left foot, clips it in. Somehow,
Speaker 1: whether it's a crossbar or a flailing hand of Desantos,
Speaker 1: somehow clears the ball finds the foot of San Diego
Speaker 1: player or back here by Lozano puts Neggi a little
Speaker 1: bit of spot of bother. But San Diego, as they
Speaker 1: did all first half, they got out of that pressure
Speaker 1: well and not the ball over the top and the
Speaker 1: ball gets clipped through new Who it's got the pace
Speaker 1: on Drea lays it back to Stephan Fry rolls it
Speaker 1: out fast side to Yima.
Speaker 3: No, that was well done by new who right we
Speaker 3: asked of him in the first half. When the ball
Speaker 3: is on the opposite side of the field, you must
Speaker 3: tuck in and provide cover for your other two center backs.
Speaker 3: If that was in the first half, knew who would
Speaker 3: have been out of position and that would have been
Speaker 3: a free chance on goal for San Diego. So I
Speaker 3: think at halftime they shored up things in the backs.
Speaker 3: They knew who just stay home a little.
Speaker 1: Bit picked up left side by Obed Vargas as Rothrock
Speaker 1: got his pocket pick, but the Sounders have it top
Speaker 1: of the eighteen yard box. Ferrera, you're defending by Delatroy,
Speaker 1: homegrown product coming back on loan from Celta Vigo. Sounders
Speaker 1: habit with Kolani came on the field, joined the first
Speaker 1: half for Alex. Roldan picks up an injury, Paul goes
Speaker 1: into Georgie. Assistant referees flag on the far side does
Speaker 1: go up. Georgie just inched off side. The Sounders trying
Speaker 1: to thread the needle inside the eighteen yard box as
Speaker 1: they try and find a.
Speaker 2: Way back into this game.
Speaker 1: As we get here in the fifty second minute, Sounders
Speaker 1: trailing three goals to nil. We're on the Sounders FC
Speaker 1: stream on the iHeartRadio app. Wherever you're joining us, we
Speaker 1: appreciate it. It's gonna be a slug of a second
Speaker 1: half of the sound as players, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: find some pride. Can they find a way back in
Speaker 1: the game. As Lufelsen goes down nursing, it looks like
Speaker 1: maybe a back injury of sorts, and the medical stuff
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 3: It could have been from Rothrock's challenge earlier on in
Speaker 3: the game, and initially you feel it in the back
Speaker 3: and then it moves to the hip. But we watched
Speaker 3: the replay before that and the sounders build up and
Speaker 3: Colonne found himself inside the box but not checking his shoulder.
Speaker 3: There's no one around him, and instead feels like he
Speaker 3: has to play that ball to Georgia, who ends up
Speaker 3: being on side. And that's the recognition. If that was
Speaker 3: Trucku Lozano in that position, I think he turns and
Speaker 3: his first thought is how do I get to goal? Right?
Speaker 3: And you bring in an inexperienced player like Keilaney. He's
Speaker 3: got all the technical talent in the world. He did
Speaker 3: it against LAFC. Why not go for goal? You're down
Speaker 3: three to nothing, take your chance. Your first thought's got
Speaker 3: to be how do I get to goal in this situation?
Speaker 1: Well, Tucky Lozano is actually it is spelled Chucky and
Speaker 1: is after the Child's play character. When he was an
Speaker 1: eleven year old at Pachuca. His teammates thought he reminded
Speaker 1: that of Chucky, whether it was what he looked like
Speaker 1: or how he acted, how he played.
Speaker 2: I remember that Charles Player was.
Speaker 1: Actually the first horror movie I watched.
Speaker 2: The kid absolutely fright and.
Speaker 3: He still sticks with you.
Speaker 2: It still sticks with.
Speaker 1: Me, but he's been a thorn in the side of
Speaker 1: the Sounders. Picked up that third goal right before the
Speaker 1: first half. End of the first half as luveless and
Speaker 1: can't even make it off. The field goes down. It's
Speaker 1: going to be some change for San Diego as he
Speaker 1: hobbles off with some assistance of the medical staff.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Tonight's match is presented by the Western Washington Toyota Dealers,
Speaker 1: and Brian Schmittzer will be looking at his bench as
Speaker 1: the players get warmed up down to the left hand
Speaker 1: side of the Sounders bench.
Speaker 3: Danny, did you ever as a as a player, you're
Speaker 3: a starting center back. The team goes out and signs
Speaker 3: another center back who's well known throughout the team, who's
Speaker 3: won a championship, and now all of a sudden, you've
Speaker 3: got j Bell, You've got Kim on the bench. Does
Speaker 3: that ever do anything? Cite psyched wise to your brain
Speaker 3: as you're as you're playing, right, You're still a young kid,
Speaker 3: and Jackson has done really well. He's been up there
Speaker 3: as possibly a defender of the year. He's gotten called
Speaker 3: into some national teams team camps. But I remember as
Speaker 3: soon as the team signed someone coming in, whether it
Speaker 3: was Ramon Torres, whoever it was, I always felt something,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of hunting me down, no matter how
Speaker 3: good I was playing.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's two ways to respond, right you either
Speaker 1: kind of going to a cocoon and you can play
Speaker 1: with a little bit of fear maybe and it changes
Speaker 1: your game, or with all your sleeves up and try
Speaker 1: and prove why you are that player that you have
Speaker 1: been tagged to be in the Sounder's lineup right now.
Speaker 2: It's been a tough star.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, it was the first game against Charlotte
Speaker 1: where it's a poor giveaway by Jackson that cost the
Speaker 1: Sounders three points in that final minutes of the game
Speaker 1: at home. It has been a bit of a spluttering start.
Speaker 1: But you know, as you know, consistency is the hardest
Speaker 1: thing to find in any type of professional sport, and
Speaker 1: Jackson's had a good couple of seasons and a bit
Speaker 1: of adversity. Can he face that adversity positively and turn
Speaker 1: things around. He's gonna have a chance to do that
Speaker 1: again is he gets pulled out a position the sunder
Speaker 1: You're Hay with Delatroy right side with Joy who tries
Speaker 1: to flick it to the backside. Valacari inches away from connecting,
Speaker 1: skips through past Seffron Fry's goal over the end line.
Speaker 2: You see the change for San Diego.
Speaker 1: Lufflesen does come off and is Willy Kimodo is gonna
Speaker 1: come on the field like for like switch.
Speaker 3: Well you saw it there on that play. Is San
Speaker 3: Diego had ten men on the field, but you still
Speaker 3: see an open player down this right flank with Jackson
Speaker 3: getting pulled out of position, roth Rock high up the field,
Speaker 3: and now you're still left with two center backs sitting back,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, here comes San Diego right
Speaker 3: back down your throat.
Speaker 1: Giveaway down the left hand side is Delatoy towards the end,
Speaker 1: then gets nudged in the bat by Yema. Crowds asking
Speaker 1: for some type of foul on Delatory inside the eighteen
Speaker 1: yard box.
Speaker 2: Referee doesn't give anything.
Speaker 1: Sounders come away with it, trying to counter down the
Speaker 1: right hand side. For the Sounders, there's Georgie hugging the
Speaker 1: far touchline, picks the ball up on his feet. They'll
Speaker 1: step over towards the right corner box.
Speaker 2: So Farrera needs to strike.
Speaker 1: It, and that's a player lacking confidence Ferrera. A couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, Brad would have taken that one touch
Speaker 1: and then smashed it with his second touch. It was
Speaker 1: in two minds where they laid off, almost felt like
Speaker 1: he didn't want to shoot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you should have brought it that first
Speaker 3: touch with the right foot, bring it to the left
Speaker 3: and then you have a goal on goal. But like
Speaker 3: you said, just not confident just yet. Still needs to
Speaker 3: find that one and get off the mark for the
Speaker 3: Sounders an MLS play.
Speaker 1: Yep, no goal so far for Heesus Ferrara coming into
Speaker 1: the new squad. Of course, Sonny has spent his whole
Speaker 1: career at FC Dallas to assist on. His campaign so
Speaker 1: far for his new team.
Speaker 2: Was productive in those Conker Calf games.
Speaker 1: Got some good performances off side for against the Sounders.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be free kicked for San Diego as they
Speaker 1: here in the fifty seventh minute Snapdragon Stadium. Three goals
Speaker 1: to nail, all scored in the first half. We'll see
Speaker 1: on a replay Georgia just switched off for a minute
Speaker 1: a couple of yards off signed easy call by the
Speaker 1: assistant a referee.
Speaker 3: I think Heyesus's best attributes are getting into the little
Speaker 3: pockets and creating from there, and then the Sounders just
Speaker 3: haven't had the ability to find him in the right pockets. Right.
Speaker 3: We know that he's a good player, we know that
Speaker 3: he can do it. He's got the track record in
Speaker 3: Major League Soccer, came from a pretty successful FC Dallas team,
Speaker 3: especially a few years ago. And now the Sounders have
Speaker 3: to figure out a way to get him isolated, right
Speaker 3: And they've tried him on the wing, they've tried him
Speaker 3: up top. Is it time to pull him back a
Speaker 3: line and have him play as a ten? That something's
Speaker 3: got to change for him to be successful, right, Because
Speaker 3: he's the most frustrated player in the whole situation is
Speaker 3: he's brought in to be a goal scorer, provide assists
Speaker 3: and it just hasn't worked out the ways he's wanted
Speaker 3: to in the first seventy eight games of this MLS season.
Speaker 1: And the conundon for Brian and his staff is that
Speaker 1: the Sounders coming into this weekend's game, had the second
Speaker 1: most scoring attempts in MLS. So as much as we
Speaker 1: feel like they're spluttering in the attacking third of the
Speaker 1: field over the last couple of weeks. They still being
Speaker 1: a threat on goal, but probably not including the likes
Speaker 1: of Ferrero, who still trying to find his way in
Speaker 1: this new team. As bull goes down the left hand
Speaker 1: side for San Diego, ball goes into Valcari looking for it,
Speaker 1: cut out by the Sounders, defended well by a combination
Speaker 1: of Vargas and Kilany. All goes back to Yemar. Pressure
Speaker 1: by Valacari, given up by the Sounders. Sloppy again by
Speaker 1: the Sounders, picked up by goalscorer diverse CoV. It was
Speaker 1: the Della Tory cut inside back to diverse CoV San
Speaker 1: Diego and joined their football right now. Ball top of
Speaker 1: the box of Valacari closed down by Jackson O Reagan
Speaker 1: towards the end ninety goes Jackson almost it looks like
Speaker 1: he caught Valacari. Valcari felt pressure went down, Referee didn't
Speaker 1: buy it, goes over the end line.
Speaker 2: Goalkick.
Speaker 1: San Diego lead three goals to no.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but again you look up, Oh, he actually On
Speaker 3: the replay of that Paul Rothrock chip ball across he
Speaker 3: punches that ball out, doesn't come off the crossbar.
Speaker 1: The Santos is ross Rock left side of the eighteen
Speaker 1: yard box. Good switcher play by the sound is challenged
Speaker 1: by Willie down the left hand side comes back to
Speaker 1: Danny Laver's substitute at halftime. Can he get involved? Can
Speaker 1: he continue to pick up on his performances solid starts at.
Speaker 2: His campaign as well?
Speaker 1: When being called upon as Danny Leaver Josh Attenci of
Speaker 1: course left just before the season started. Vote a confidence
Speaker 1: for Danny Lavers borgo top of the box to roll
Speaker 1: down just again. The Sounders just find themselves in these
Speaker 1: offside positions. They try to find those pockets of space.
Speaker 1: Fast side assistant referee puts that flag up giving off
Speaker 1: side in a free kick for San Diego.
Speaker 3: A couple of players before that right, Jaymar does so
Speaker 3: well to intercept that ball and then he gets pass back,
Speaker 3: gets a ball at his feet, takes a few seconds
Speaker 3: and by then San Diego. That's what they want you
Speaker 3: to do. They're gonna come and press. They're hunting right.
Speaker 3: They're four for four on this side in that last attack.
Speaker 3: That's what they want you to They want complacency on
Speaker 3: the ball and the Sounders have been baited into that trap.
Speaker 1: Well, one thing is it's been impressive is the manner
Speaker 1: in which they have stepped together as a unit and
Speaker 1: for a new team, new group of players to be
Speaker 1: able to be so in synct defensively.
Speaker 2: It's good coaching.
Speaker 1: Lots of work done on the practice field a during
Speaker 1: pre season, of course, but I've got some experienced players
Speaker 1: and McVeigh and McNair anchoring the middle of that back four.
Speaker 3: Freeland, he might as well take the jersey home with
Speaker 3: him at that point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Frank curtinegri free kick for the Sounders, easy
Speaker 1: call by the referee.
Speaker 3: So now, if I'm Georgie Manounga, I know that this
Speaker 3: left back has a yellow card. If I'm the Sounders,
Speaker 3: give me the ball every single time, let me run
Speaker 3: at him. Let me bait him into a challenge. At
Speaker 3: least give me four or five six opportunities in this
Speaker 3: half to draw maybe another yellow card. Right, You got
Speaker 3: to get at any guy in the back line that
Speaker 3: has a yellow card, especially wide.
Speaker 2: Players wore comes in header just whine by Yemar.
Speaker 1: It was a really good delivery from the outside on
Speaker 1: the Sounders right and it was Yemar ten yards or
Speaker 1: so from the goal. Try to flick it to the
Speaker 1: far post. Evaded. The goal went over the end line.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a goalkick.
Speaker 1: Double substitution now for the sound As Brian Schmittz are
Speaker 1: making his move here on the sixtieth minute, Georgia Munungo
Speaker 1: comes off the field. Dela Vega now on the field.
Speaker 1: We wondered if he would get a call up coming
Speaker 1: back from injury.
Speaker 2: With Brian Schmetz to.
Speaker 1: Nurse him back when the game is somewhat out of reach,
Speaker 1: but nope, he comes on. Jesus Ferrara is going to
Speaker 1: sit on the bench. Denny Maussovski comes on. I think
Speaker 1: Ferrera's another frustrating night. He's gonna have to sit there
Speaker 1: and just absorb. Another frustrating evening for Ferrera. And now
Speaker 1: the Sounders put some high press and it's Dela Vega's
Speaker 1: first involvement.
Speaker 3: It's a good header from Yemar right, great delivery. I
Speaker 3: think Danny label was on delivery on that one. Jamar
Speaker 3: steps in, just skips past the far post. And if
Speaker 3: the Sounder's got that one, you think they're at least
Speaker 3: two more are in their bag.
Speaker 1: With defending by Willie was Danny Laber tries to slip
Speaker 1: the ball through the right between the right back and
Speaker 1: the center back, cut out well by the back line
Speaker 1: as Danny Labor comes back to support, wins the ball
Speaker 1: off Valakari finish international. It's a good, good start to
Speaker 1: his San Diego career. Two goals, three assists, National team
Speaker 1: player for Finland, part of the twenty twenty Euro squad,
Speaker 1: playing through the middle. Not a typical number nine that
Speaker 1: those three attacking players bred in Lozano, Drea and Valacari
Speaker 1: really do interconnect world. There's no true our and out
Speaker 1: number nine. They seem very similar players, but they seem
Speaker 1: to shift and move and cause all sorts of problems,
Speaker 1: certainly for the Sounders to.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's a great thing about a four three three
Speaker 3: the three up top at some point don't really it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter where they play, and they're very similar players
Speaker 3: in that regard, and especially when you stretch the field,
Speaker 3: it's really putting the Sounders under pressure with three in
Speaker 3: the back. And so the way that San Diego has
Speaker 3: played tonight has really been impressive. Right They basically said
Speaker 3: we're gonna play with four in the back, pull down the.
Speaker 1: Right hand side for Delatroit to run after knew who
Speaker 1: feels the pressure goes down. It you mentioned a couple
Speaker 1: of times that experience. As Delatroy runs across, gets a
Speaker 1: silly yellow card for Delatory. It was a foul giving
Speaker 1: up deep in the sound as half for the field,
Speaker 1: and it was not a yellow card for the fowl.
Speaker 1: It was a little pushing the bat by Delatroy, but
Speaker 1: it was him getting involved kicking the ball away preventing
Speaker 1: new who from playing the ball quickly gets a yellow card.
Speaker 1: Second yellow card of the night for San Diego, with
Speaker 1: Negri already on a yellow.
Speaker 3: And so San Diego said, we're gonna sit with four
Speaker 3: in the back and you six just go and hunt,
Speaker 3: hunt for the ball. We're gonna cover you, especially if
Speaker 3: the Sounders really only play with one high and now
Speaker 3: in Danny Mussovski, go ahead, go hunt for the ball.
Speaker 3: Keep let's keep seattle on one side of the field.
Speaker 3: Look here, the all six are shaded all the way
Speaker 3: over to one side of the field. And now the
Speaker 3: Sounders have to find this outlet. They've got to notice
Speaker 3: switch the point of attack, and they do. If you
Speaker 3: can break that pressure, things start to open up. If
Speaker 3: you do it two or three times, it doesn't have
Speaker 3: to happen every single time, but it provides more opportunities
Speaker 3: for every player on the field.
Speaker 1: For the Sounders, good long ball by Knew who cut
Speaker 1: out well by McVeigh as he will looped over his shoulder,
Speaker 1: hooked it clear. Sounders pick it up in there, attacking
Speaker 1: half of the field now with Obed Vargas quiet.
Speaker 2: First half from.
Speaker 1: Obed again, he continues to evolve and improve as a player.
Speaker 2: I mean what I find he's been. He's still so young.
Speaker 1: As the bull's giving up by Yamo, I was pushing
Speaker 1: further up the field. Of course, as Yemo got to
Speaker 1: involve further up as new Who did in the first half,
Speaker 1: There's gonna be spaces in behind for Sen and the
Speaker 1: eager took spoit. But for the Sounders the three nil
Speaker 1: down and if you're going to get yourself back in
Speaker 1: the game, you have to take some chances. Twenty five
Speaker 1: minutes left of the ninety Sounders training three goals to
Speaker 1: nil and the score update is presented by Toyota. Roll
Speaker 1: Don has the middle of the park, breaks the line fans.
Speaker 1: Obed on the half turn rolls it out to this
Speaker 1: near side to rothrock down. Labor and support overlapping run
Speaker 1: by Obed just All caught under his feet. They able
Speaker 1: to recover, Finds rolled on short ball into Jackson Riggan
Speaker 1: getting involved now Sounders in the attacking third of the field.
Speaker 1: Eleven men behind the ball for San Diego defending their
Speaker 1: three goal leads mentioned. Three goals scored against La have
Speaker 1: seen the first half last week. Three goals scored against
Speaker 1: the Sounders in the first half tonight.
Speaker 3: Look how deep san Diego is too. All ten players
Speaker 3: fifteen yards dropped into their own half. And we've seen
Speaker 3: this before. Teams come to Seattle happy to sit back,
Speaker 3: absorb pressure and try to play for the counter. And
Speaker 3: there's nothing better as two center backs or a back
Speaker 3: line for San Diego. If you're just gonna sit and
Speaker 3: knock the ball side to side, it's gonna be an
Speaker 3: easy night for us.
Speaker 1: Rolled down out to this near sight to de la
Speaker 1: Vega getting thirty minutes of action tonight. As he builds
Speaker 1: himself back to full finis, he tries to wriggle clear
Speaker 1: clatches into McNair, goes down a little bit too easy,
Speaker 1: goes down and then she gets back up. Big central
Speaker 1: defender from the UK Northern Ireland International.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be another change for San Diego.
Speaker 1: But as they're making the change, do Zarno's had his
Speaker 1: moment in the spotlight and the end of that first half,
Speaker 1: his first golf for San Diego. He's gonna come off
Speaker 1: the field to rapturous applause, then exciting Alex Maighten. It
Speaker 1: started last couple of games. He's gonna come on that
Speaker 1: left hand side, so like for like switch. As much
Speaker 1: as Lozano was impressive, mine has been impressive as well
Speaker 1: as joining his performances.
Speaker 3: I think Lozano was fantastic tonight. You see just what
Speaker 3: kind of quality he has, and that's that's experience, right,
Speaker 3: playing in the Dutch Eda Visi for so long, and
Speaker 3: really his technical ability is pretty unmatched on the field,
Speaker 3: and a player like that is gonna do well in
Speaker 3: Major League soccer. You sprinkle it in with a back
Speaker 3: four that's happy to sit and just defend and let
Speaker 3: the guys in front in front of them attack and
Speaker 3: do what they need to do.
Speaker 2: And you saw it in that goal.
Speaker 1: It was that subtle first touch that cut across Jackson
Speaker 1: regateve took him out of the play completely and then
Speaker 1: he had nothing more to do. And that's a dangerous
Speaker 1: challenge by Danny Lavor. It's a yellow card, but you
Speaker 1: could hear bred Evans just gasp for a minute.
Speaker 2: We've seen those be read.
Speaker 1: Of course, er, we'll do a check and the last
Speaker 1: thing the sounder is need now is to go down
Speaker 1: to ten men against say surging San Diego team and
Speaker 1: kind of wrapped it around his leg.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the studs up that make it a dangerous play.
Speaker 3: And we'll see if they look at this one again.
Speaker 3: But Danny Labor, obviously frustrated Schmid's told him to get
Speaker 3: inside and make a couple tackles. It was fortunate.
Speaker 1: One more change for San Diego to mention Hamedidop. Former
Speaker 1: Charlotte man comes on the field. Light for light switch
Speaker 1: for Franco Negri, who was on a yellow card. So
Speaker 1: protecting Negre against Adela Vega's.
Speaker 2: Gonna slide on that right hand side.
Speaker 1: Quick play by good doy on this near side off
Speaker 1: the deck, free kick ball goes to the far side.
Speaker 1: Here comes might and good defending by Jackson Reagan. That's
Speaker 1: he defend. Jackson comes across, solid challenge, takes it off
Speaker 1: the toe of Mighten. But again the sound is getting
Speaker 1: caught out by a simple long ball that happened in
Speaker 1: the first half when Stefan Freim mad an incredible save,
Speaker 1: strong right left hands of that particular save when the
Speaker 1: ball went over the top of Kilane direct from a
Speaker 1: free kick that time was Drea. This timmers from Kadoi.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's another tough one, right. It comes from a
Speaker 3: set piece ten yards inside San Jose's half and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden with one kick, the balls in behind.
Speaker 3: And maybe it was Kilanie getting caught out of position
Speaker 3: in San Diego's front three year behind Matin with a
Speaker 3: better touch slots at bottom corner. But Jackson Reagan, like
Speaker 3: you said, does well to step in and make it
Speaker 3: make a strong challenge.
Speaker 1: Sound As FC Soker is presented by Provident, Swedish official
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Speaker 1: of these Western Conference games and results that are coming through.
Speaker 1: An early game between Salt Lake and La Galaxy. La
Speaker 1: Galaxy continue to struggle. Champions last year, they're not looking
Speaker 1: like champions this year. Went down to nil against Salt
Speaker 1: Lake Atlanta.
Speaker 2: One Dallas one.
Speaker 1: Dallas, of course, the opponent for the Sounders next Saturday
Speaker 1: in Dallas, Jesus Rare will go back to his old
Speaker 1: stomping grounds. Austin nil, Portland nil, Houston one, LAFC nil.
Speaker 1: Vancouver continue their ride up the top of the Western Conference,
Speaker 1: winning two nil against Colorado and then Kansas City two
Speaker 1: nil winners.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Of course, the big news coming out of Kansas as
Speaker 1: Peter Vermes having been at the club's technical director GM
Speaker 1: and head coaches two thousand and nine, longest tenured coach
Speaker 1: in MLS by a country mile. The performance I think
Speaker 1: it was fourteen games without a win as Danny Masoski
Speaker 1: goes up from a free kick, floats aheader towards Dos Santos,
Speaker 1: easily collected by the goalkeeper.
Speaker 2: Let's get to Peter Vermese.
Speaker 1: You also spent time briefly in Kansas City, but it
Speaker 1: was about time. It felt like he was coming for
Speaker 1: some time. And eventually Peter Vmese loses his job and
Speaker 1: carries a Wagnin who is his trusted number two, comes
Speaker 1: in as you know, temporary coach until they figure out
Speaker 1: which direction they get to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, you know, I have all the respect in
Speaker 3: the world for Peter, and they just never were able
Speaker 3: to shift after you know, Johnny Russell was in his
Speaker 3: prime twenty eighteen. They could just never find their feet
Speaker 3: again after that, and once Graham Zusie retired, Roger Espinoza,
Speaker 3: you know, Matt Beeesler left the team. It was really
Speaker 3: hard for them to find an identity and find guys
Speaker 3: who you associated with Kansas City and don't I still
Speaker 3: don't think that they have that just quite yet. And
Speaker 3: that'll be Carrie's job. And whoever steps into the helm
Speaker 3: after him maybe goes. He goes on a run and
Speaker 3: he's the guy to take over. That's that fresh new blood.
Speaker 1: It comes to Lavaca, goot strong play, shrugs up to
Speaker 1: first go top of the box.
Speaker 2: He goes, goes top of the.
Speaker 1: To Danny Lave. He kick easy call by the referee,
Speaker 1: just standing a handful of yards away.
Speaker 2: Good Doy puts his hands up in the air. He
Speaker 2: wasn't easy called.
Speaker 1: Danny Lava miscontrolled the initial ball from Dela Vega managed
Speaker 1: to flick the ball away, gets brought down inside the
Speaker 1: d top of the box.
Speaker 2: Chance for the sound is to get a.
Speaker 1: Goal back here in the seventy second minute as they
Speaker 1: trailed three goal with Neil Bret Evans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a good move from Pedro de la Vega. Here
Speaker 3: he had Danny Musovski kind of looked him off and
Speaker 3: that pass wasn't intended for Lava. But he steps in,
Speaker 3: takes a touch and good Day has to foul in
Speaker 3: that situation as his body weights just carrying him away
Speaker 3: from Danny Lava with a good touch coming across his body.
Speaker 3: And now the Sounder's in a good position just outside
Speaker 3: the eighteen about a yard and we'll see if Danny
Speaker 3: steps up to take this one or Pedro. But Danny's
Speaker 3: been good on free kicks in past, But who knows
Speaker 3: whoever wears the number ten usually ends up taking these
Speaker 3: free kicks from.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming Bocks.
Speaker 1: You're thinking Danny Lava, not Danny Musovsky.
Speaker 3: Danny Lava.
Speaker 2: That's right, Well it's Della Vega taking three steps back,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 1: His first game for the Sounders was when he rolled
Speaker 1: the ball in the back of the neck, came off
Speaker 1: the bench against LAFC. Started the twenty four season, scored
Speaker 1: from a pk. This sound for a free kick, whips
Speaker 1: his foot around, it comes off the wall, goes over
Speaker 1: the end line. Cornerkick Sounders six man wall of San
Speaker 1: Diego stood strong, protecting their goalkeeper, protecting their lead, protecting
Speaker 1: their clean sheet. Sounders trailing three goals to nil, just
Speaker 1: under twenty minutes to go. Seventy third minute here Snapdragon Stadium,
Speaker 1: Sounders FC stream on the iHeartRadio app next week.
Speaker 2: Third straight away game.
Speaker 1: For the Sounders before they come back home, go on
Speaker 1: the road to Dallas. You have to find a way
Speaker 1: out of this funk right now, four games without a win.
Speaker 1: Ball gets whipped in, headed clear by Teverskov, easily collected.
Speaker 1: Now Maighten runs through free kick given by the referee,
Speaker 1: felt like a shoulder to shoulder might and went down
Speaker 1: and like Christian rolled On, gives up the free kick,
Speaker 1: arguing his case with the referee. It's going to allow
Speaker 1: the Sounder is to get back in position. But as
Speaker 1: the Sounds trying to find a way back in this game, Brad,
Speaker 1: it feels like the mountain is getting a little.
Speaker 2: Bit higher as the minutes ticked by.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fifteen minutes ago. Now you're playing for pride and
Speaker 3: the Sounders still have it in him. You see Danny
Speaker 3: Leva putting pressure consistently over the field, and for the boys,
Speaker 3: I think it's just stay focused, stay healthy, and let's
Speaker 3: see if we can get one. Let's see if we
Speaker 3: can get one. Play with some pride. Like I said,
Speaker 3: play for the badge, which should be givens right. But
Speaker 3: when you watch a game like this and they start
Speaker 3: the way that they did, you have to ask those
Speaker 3: questions realistically. At the end of the day, are you
Speaker 3: playing for the right reasons? Are you complacent? Did you
Speaker 3: think it was going to be a rollover because it's
Speaker 3: an expansion side They just played to LA teams? Was
Speaker 3: it just because they played LA teams? It's that California
Speaker 3: rivalry that boosted them, But certainly not. It looks like
Speaker 3: San Diego is a real deal. They've been playing collective
Speaker 3: and they've done well tonight. I think now Schmetz is
Speaker 3: the longest serving head coach in Major League Soccer with
Speaker 3: Peter Vermis. He is exit.
Speaker 1: Yep, some of twenty sixteen. Of course, it's not ever
Speaker 1: forget he came in. I think it was that performance
Speaker 1: down in twenty sixteen against Kansas City. There was Ziggi's
Speaker 1: last game. Schwetz came in. It was gainst Ellie Galaxy.
Speaker 1: His first game. It was a drawer at home Luminfield
Speaker 1: Valdez came played in the point of that four two
Speaker 1: three one that Brian Schwetz has been so committed to
Speaker 1: over the years as Santego play with fire again but
Speaker 1: again get themselves out eventually clear their lines picked up
Speaker 1: by Yema.
Speaker 3: But listen, I think you have to be impressed with
Speaker 3: San Diego's commitment to playing out of the back, and
Speaker 3: like we said, in the first half, they've been playing
Speaker 3: with fire and but once they feel that little bit
Speaker 3: of pressure, they send the ball along right and they're
Speaker 3: happy to defend in their block of ten behind the ball.
Speaker 1: Well, San Diego, as we mentioned, new franchise in MLS
Speaker 1: five hundred plus million dollars to acquire the franchise. Main
Speaker 1: investor there's an English based Egyptian businessman. There's a plethora
Speaker 1: of different investors throughout their investment group and they're interconnected
Speaker 1: to the Right to Dream partnership, which includes Danish club
Speaker 1: norgier Land, which a number of these players on the
Speaker 1: field now and on the bench and who have played
Speaker 1: have been in that system, including new signing Milano LESCo,
Speaker 1: who's a San Diego native, came in from Denmark just
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. They announced that signing the
Speaker 1: academies in Ghana, academies in San Diego, academies in Denmark.
Speaker 1: So San Diego now have it with Valakari Finnish International
Speaker 1: cuts it back to Willie across the six yard box.
Speaker 1: Board bounces around. Fry shouts off KNW who clects to ball.
Speaker 3: Well, now San Diego can play as free as they want,
Speaker 3: right they know that there's four ten minutes left, up
Speaker 3: three nothing. We've seen this from the Sounders at home.
Speaker 3: Those are my favorite games to play. And you're up
Speaker 3: three to nothing at home, why not why not have
Speaker 3: some fun? You play and move. The team you're playing
Speaker 3: against is demoralized at this point, just hoping to get
Speaker 3: this game over with and you can play free at
Speaker 3: the end of the day. Right, you can play free.
Speaker 1: We don't leave us at halftime, Jackson Pete Mars will
Speaker 1: be back to break.
Speaker 2: There's been a painful evening in San Diego for the Sounders.
Speaker 1: Slightly more solid second half, but for the Sounders, the
Speaker 1: hole was dug in that first half, starting in that
Speaker 1: second minute.
Speaker 2: Which is the be the most frustrating thing for a coach.
Speaker 1: You have a whole week of practice, have a game
Speaker 1: plan in place and it all goes out the window
Speaker 1: to some extent, but the ball goes in behind plut
Speaker 1: you well by McVeigh who wriggles free of de la Vega,
Speaker 1: try to find Mussovski in the hole given away by McVeigh,
Speaker 1: picked up by this as Kalani to rolled down looking
Speaker 1: for options, goes to Vargas twenty five yards from goal,
Speaker 1: left of center, goes to Rothrock, whips it in with
Speaker 1: his right foot towards the back stick, one bounce over
Speaker 1: the end line, goal kick, San Diego. They lead three
Speaker 1: goals to nil, and this score update is presented by
Speaker 1: Toyota bred Evans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just disjointed, right, I think that's been the theme
Speaker 3: for tonight. And when you're playing wide like Paul Rothrock does,
Speaker 3: it's it's a difficult position because you're counted on to
Speaker 3: create most of the attack for the Sounders, right, you
Speaker 3: have to go wide, especially with San Diego. San Diego
Speaker 3: having so many numbers in the middle of the pitch,
Speaker 3: they're happy for things to go wide. They know that
Speaker 3: they've got four in the back, they got two big
Speaker 3: center backs and they'll clean pretty much everything up. And
Speaker 3: Rothrock just you know you're ten minutes left in this
Speaker 3: one about and you're trying to get that space for
Speaker 3: yourself and the service just doesn't come off. Now it's
Speaker 3: his chance to create.
Speaker 1: That's Rothrock tries to find the ball, doesn't miss the
Speaker 1: first man, goes down to the deck to try and
Speaker 1: win the ball. He'sily collected by San Diego and diverse
Speaker 1: Off just clips it down the line to Valacari and
Speaker 1: then experience Panamanian international. Goodoys, of course, spent many years
Speaker 1: in San Jose, clears the lines of San Diego, finds
Speaker 1: the foot of Jackson Reagan and managed to find the
Speaker 1: ball into Musovsky goes down to the deck outside the box.
Speaker 1: Nothing given by the referee.
Speaker 2: San Diego move forward, try to flick the ball through.
Speaker 1: Stephan Fry comes out with his box, flips the ball,
Speaker 1: give us the ball away straight to Goodoy looks up
Speaker 1: as Fry scrambles back in his goal.
Speaker 2: Nothing there.
Speaker 1: Ball goes into Matin tries to wriggle free of Yemar,
Speaker 1: then goes down. It's gonna be an.
Speaker 2: Easy yellow card.
Speaker 1: It was a clumsy challenge, if nothing else by the
Speaker 1: San Diego winger. The sub takes down Yema gets to
Speaker 1: yellow card free kick Sounders and they continue to trail
Speaker 1: as we ticked to the eightieth minute mark, ten minutes
Speaker 1: to go over. The ninety Founders want to just get
Speaker 1: this one over with, pack their bags, fly home, hopefully
Speaker 1: find a way.
Speaker 2: To shake this one off.
Speaker 1: And it's Knew who said they just need to find
Speaker 1: a win, find some confidence, and then they have the
Speaker 1: quality to get going, going to run. They just got
Speaker 1: to get over that hunt.
Speaker 3: Well, it's only gonna get more difficult, right, you got
Speaker 3: another game on the road in Dallas. You don't really
Speaker 3: have a home stand until late in May, and so
Speaker 3: the Sounders have to figure out how to pick up
Speaker 3: points on the road. They'd have been happy with a
Speaker 3: draw tonight, I think, looking back on this one, but
Speaker 3: you see it again. The way that the front three
Speaker 3: play for San Diego is very fluid, like you said,
Speaker 3: and it's it's much different for the Sounders. The front three.
Speaker 3: For the Sounders, you don't see them interchange all that often,
Speaker 3: if any throughout a game. The wingers are required to
Speaker 3: be wingers, and if you're a winger six or seven
Speaker 3: times and a half, you've got to be providing service
Speaker 3: in dangerous service out there. Otherwise you might as well
Speaker 3: just be a defender at the end of the day
Speaker 3: and play five in the back and just sit back
Speaker 3: and connect your passes and find more attacking players to
Speaker 3: put on the field.
Speaker 2: Bull giving away by rolled On un characteristic of rolled On.
Speaker 1: It's just being one of the Knights. Unfortunately for the Sounders.
Speaker 1: He gives the ball up, commits the foul. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a free kip for San Diego. Inside the they're
Speaker 1: attacking third of the field, another chance to get the
Speaker 1: ball in the box. Big men come up, Diverskov McVeigh, McNair,
Speaker 1: a couple of subs for San Diego. Andreas Drea goes off,
Speaker 1: Thomas Anghell, former LAFC man, comes on.
Speaker 2: All gets clipped in headed clear by Yemar. Then Luca
Speaker 2: de la.
Speaker 1: Torre, san Diego native as you mentioned, good lively game
Speaker 1: for him, Tonight who comes off the field, and Alvarado
Speaker 1: Junior comes on.
Speaker 2: Signed from Portugal. Let's have all the players brand new
Speaker 2: to the squad. So what was signed earlier than others.
Speaker 1: Some were signed as early as the summer of twenty
Speaker 1: four as decided to build their team, one of them
Speaker 1: being Alex Maighten, the sub who came in from Notts
Speaker 1: Forest signed in August of twenty four.
Speaker 3: If you can bring in a guy like Luca de
Speaker 3: la right, he's got national team experience, he's played in
Speaker 3: big leagues throughout the world, he's from San Diego. It
Speaker 3: seems in the first seven eight games of this season
Speaker 3: that San Diego has done just about everything right to
Speaker 3: build this team. And you can tell by the way
Speaker 3: that they played together, right. I think that's if you're
Speaker 3: just listening to this game. It looks like a group
Speaker 3: that has played together for years and that's really impressive
Speaker 3: for an expansion side to come in with the expectations
Speaker 3: of a big club, a big market like San Diego.
Speaker 3: It's always tough. We thought it was going to be
Speaker 3: tough to compete with Tijuana, the teams in Mexico, but
Speaker 3: they've really staked a claim and done well, as evident
Speaker 3: by this pack stadium.
Speaker 1: Well, the sound is gonna have to find some form.
Speaker 1: It's just a couple of months away to the Club
Speaker 1: World Cup.
Speaker 2: One of those opponents in the.
Speaker 1: Group stage, Paris and German One League earn championship today.
Speaker 2: All goes in via San Diego.
Speaker 1: You know, get much more difficult than what we would
Speaker 1: consider the group of death vote to fo Go first game,
Speaker 1: then Athletico Madrid, who looks so good both in Champions
Speaker 1: League play where they were narrowly beaten by Reil Madrid
Speaker 1: and penalties, and that crosstown rivalry, and then the fighting
Speaker 1: for La Liga championship this year alongside Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Speaker 1: So Sounders is gonna have to find their form, have
Speaker 1: to find their confidence. Plenty of time to do it,
Speaker 1: but Sounder's gonna do it. And can they find a
Speaker 1: little bit of energy as the players like Jordan Morris
Speaker 1: come back, de la Vega gets fully fit. It's getting
Speaker 1: some time on the field today. Read Baker Whiting down
Speaker 1: this left hand side. Now, sub just came on for
Speaker 1: Paul Rothrock given away by Massovski asking for help. Nothing there,
Speaker 1: just rolls the ball into the foot of Matin, who
Speaker 1: decides to help out the Sounders by giving the ball up.
Speaker 1: And here come the Sounders again down the left hand
Speaker 1: side in their green shirts. San Diego have had three
Speaker 1: what could be three marquee wins against Western Conference West
Speaker 1: Coast teams LAFC.
Speaker 2: LA Galaxy and tonight against the Sounders so.
Speaker 1: No jitary moments from San Diego in these early parts
Speaker 1: of the season that talks about coming out the gates.
Speaker 2: Flying, They certainly have done that.
Speaker 1: He've been there, thirty five thousand fans packed in here
Speaker 1: at Snapdragon Stadium, happy. De la Vega flicks around the corner,
Speaker 1: does win the foul, It's gonna be a free kip
Speaker 1: for sounders on the right channel. By how many d up?
Speaker 3: It'll be a positive tonight to get read onto the field. Right.
Speaker 3: We haven't seen him for such a long time, a
Speaker 3: kid that's battled a lot of injuries, and one thing
Speaker 3: that Schmetz has said is that he just hadn't grown
Speaker 3: into his body just yet. Right, he's still growing into
Speaker 3: his body, and anytime you're a professional athlete, right, the
Speaker 3: strain that you're putting on your body, it just didn't
Speaker 3: have a chance to catch up to him. So he's
Speaker 3: now had a full off season to get right and
Speaker 3: it's great to see him back and hopefully stay healthy.
Speaker 3: Pedro de la Vega back on the field, and we
Speaker 3: thought he might not even play today.
Speaker 1: Ball whipped him by Danny Labor along the six yard
Speaker 1: line cleared by the back line for San Diego and
Speaker 1: Matin picked up by Danny Labor throws it back to Klan.
Speaker 1: He's had a good run out today coming on the
Speaker 1: field in the first half for Alex Roldan.
Speaker 2: It comes read first.
Speaker 1: Involvement strike, so the right foot deflected off McVeigh.
Speaker 2: Knew ask him for the ball. I think read Baker White.
Speaker 1: He did the right thing, but looks like he may
Speaker 1: have inched off side.
Speaker 2: We'll just see a replay here.
Speaker 1: Paul gets headed up. Quite sure what the fowl is,
Speaker 1: but Paul did ricochet off McVeigh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked like they called the foul and on
Speaker 3: knew who there maybe for bumping or a hand extended.
Speaker 3: Looked like two players jumping up fighting for that one.
Speaker 1: Of course knew who was asking for the ball off Reid,
Speaker 1: but I think we did the right thing. Dropped his
Speaker 1: left shoulder coming is right. It won the corner, but
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, the referee gives the foul on knew
Speaker 1: who When Dos Santos, the goalkeeper clears his lines, goes long,
Speaker 1: headed down by Neuhue and then back to Stefan Frye
Speaker 1: off the foot of Kilaney.
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 1: of Major League Soccer. Just under five minutes of regular
Speaker 1: time to go here at Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego Sounders
Speaker 1: trailing three goals to nil, and this score update is
Speaker 1: presented by provident Swedish. Danny Lever has it on this
Speaker 1: near side, flicks it down inside to Kilane, who's actually obed.
Speaker 1: Vargash had moved forward, couldn't collect it. Backline of San Diego.
Speaker 1: Have it with Willie rolls it back to McVeigh six
Speaker 1: yards from the end line, just inside the eighteen yard books.
Speaker 2: It's not what you want to do. Bull goes to Musovsky.
Speaker 1: Had a chance from six yards. Oh yeah, it passive
Speaker 1: ast the goalkeeper keeping me in a good say cornickick Sounders.
Speaker 2: But that is the best chance of the game so
Speaker 2: far for the Sounders.
Speaker 1: And there's a quick corner delivered in by Danny Labor
Speaker 1: towards a fastick and that's not going to do anything.
Speaker 1: It bounces once over the farst side goal kick San Diego.
Speaker 1: But that was at last the press worked. Sound has
Speaker 1: won the ball, but they couldn't capitalize.
Speaker 3: Here's the press here they just get caught with no outlets.
Speaker 3: Sounders do a good job marking up man for man
Speaker 3: obed with the sliding tackle. Danny Mussovski is in advance
Speaker 3: of the near post and he's in the right position.
Speaker 3: He's got all the time in the world there, and
Speaker 3: that's a striker. Once again, that just isn't that confident.
Speaker 3: I think if you've got ten twelve goals, you draw
Speaker 3: that ball back, you're one on one. Maybe other opportunity
Speaker 3: to slip another guy that's with you in the box.
Speaker 3: But look at this, just four or five yard passes
Speaker 3: inside the box.
Speaker 1: Give it away, giving it away again, there's Kilaney, there's
Speaker 1: the left foot inside the eighteen. He had a chance
Speaker 1: to wrap his left foot around it, did it so
Speaker 1: well against LAFC and it was a.
Speaker 2: No look shot with his left foot. This time he
Speaker 2: goes high and wide. Goal kick.
Speaker 3: But here's that four yard pass playing out of the back.
Speaker 3: Klane steps in a good position and this one you
Speaker 3: just have to step through, keep it on the ground
Speaker 3: and find a corner.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Brad tun Off minutes to go of the ninety will
Speaker 1: see what the referee ades.
Speaker 2: But if you're to Santos.
Speaker 1: You want to get a clean sheet, and it feels
Speaker 1: like by playing it so short, you think at some
Speaker 1: point he's gonna knocke it loong try and preserve that
Speaker 1: clean sheet, and Stephen Fry would lose his mind. The
Speaker 1: Sounder's giving up a goal so late in the game.
Speaker 1: Is a strike from Danny Lava, very ambitious, thirty yards
Speaker 1: or so, left of sense, It goes wide, goal kick
Speaker 1: options to his right, options to left, to his left,
Speaker 1: took the shot remains three nil San Diego.
Speaker 3: Well, I think Dos Santos hit his first one long
Speaker 3: about three minutes ago, and that was the first one
Speaker 3: long in the entire day. And then they go short
Speaker 3: twice get punished. And it's actually wildly impressive to me
Speaker 3: to see San Diego try and play out of the
Speaker 3: back every single time, and you don't you don't see
Speaker 3: the coach up on the sideline tune them kick it
Speaker 3: long or whatever. Maybe no guys are throwing their hands
Speaker 3: up in the air, so it's in their DNA. That's
Speaker 3: how they're gonna play. They're sticking to it. And the
Speaker 3: Sounders with two clear cut chances with inside two minutes,
Speaker 3: all right, you can't say, they haven't had at least
Speaker 3: a couple of chances in this one.
Speaker 1: As you said, there's only a handful of US based players,
Speaker 1: and so there's no intimidation factor with the Sounders.
Speaker 2: They're playing out of the back.
Speaker 1: The Sounders obviously have a legacy history in MLS, so
Speaker 1: much success over the last ten years. And there's Jackson
Speaker 1: ring and a little loose on the ball. Then she
Speaker 1: cleared by Stephan Fry. But yes, Sandio continue to play.
Speaker 1: So far, looks like a great addition to the Western
Speaker 1: Conference is going to be really competitive this year.
Speaker 2: Is Saint Louis Wrede.
Speaker 1: Just a couple of seasons ago they won the Western
Speaker 1: Conference as a brand new franchise, so much harder to
Speaker 1: follow that up with the second year, and they did
Speaker 1: not perform well in that second year. The head coach
Speaker 1: got fired halfway through. Nashville of course, had a solid
Speaker 1: first year as well, but played more defensively. San Diego
Speaker 1: feel like they're playing much more expensive football, so they'll
Speaker 1: keep the fans inside the stadium happy. They can score
Speaker 1: three goals every single game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if they keep this up there, they're
Speaker 3: going to do really well in this Western Conference. And
Speaker 3: the superpowers that were in the Western Conference. It seems
Speaker 3: to be shaken up this year, just a little bit,
Speaker 3: a little bit unexpected. I think he had Sounders in
Speaker 3: contention for supporter shield right from all the pundits, and
Speaker 3: now you look at them in their twelve thirteenth place
Speaker 3: and before you know it, right, they've got to go
Speaker 3: on the road next week to Dallas, and Dallas is
Speaker 3: doing okay this season. Jesus goes back to the place
Speaker 3: where he started, so you hope that he gets a
Speaker 3: little jolt playing in front of those fans. They're gonna
Speaker 3: have to start racking up some points here.
Speaker 1: Yep, sound is even with the results tonight, stay in twelfth.
Speaker 1: We your sound as that we mentioned are back on
Speaker 1: the road to take on FC Dallas on Saturday, April
Speaker 1: twelfth at five thirty pm Pacific.
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Speaker 2: Sounders chasing three minutes of added time.
Speaker 1: To get in thirty seconds into that three two and
Speaker 1: a half minutes to go, as the Sounds picked it
Speaker 1: up twenty five yards from goal left of center with
Speaker 1: red Baker whiting Vargas to his left. Now gets it
Speaker 1: back off Vargas left channel, rolls it back.
Speaker 2: To new in support.
Speaker 1: Sam is still looking for a goal, but it's going
Speaker 1: to be Valacari's going to stride forward. Athletic finish players
Speaker 1: at a really good night. I don't know I've gone
Speaker 1: the score sheet, but certainly put in a shift on
Speaker 1: that front line. They just look at well balanced team,
Speaker 1: well coach, well organized, good solid, strong bench, which is
Speaker 1: not always the case with a new friend choice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they all look to be on the same page,
Speaker 3: and that's wildly important. Right, You've got guys that are
Speaker 3: playing for the badge and they're playing for something new.
Speaker 3: I think what you said is a great point. You've
Speaker 3: got a couple MLS vets on the team, but that's
Speaker 3: about it. Everyone else's kind of Hey, we've played in
Speaker 3: big leagues around around the world and we've seen it before.
Speaker 3: They might be good here, but we've played against good
Speaker 3: teams as well. They're not scared, they're not intimidated, and
Speaker 3: they've taken the challenge well.
Speaker 1: Colooney's has his pocket picked by the back line in
Speaker 1: the midfield of San Diego. The boll finds the foot
Speaker 1: of mit and across the halfway line fast side the
Speaker 1: left flicks it in, given away again by Matin.
Speaker 2: A little frustration from Martin on a yellow card.
Speaker 1: It needs to be just a little bit careful to
Speaker 1: get into the final minute here at.
Speaker 2: Snap Dragon Stadium.
Speaker 1: Sound as players, we're looking forward to coming here, packed house, boisterous,
Speaker 1: loud crowd.
Speaker 2: It's not been, it's not been a night to remember.
Speaker 1: As the ball goes to Massoska gets classed into by
Speaker 1: d Oop. I know sound as players are asking for
Speaker 1: anything from the referee, and I know he's struggled with
Speaker 1: a couple of back challenges this week, and it looks
Speaker 1: like he's hobbling away. It's not gonna help matters. It
Speaker 1: gets clattered into the sounds. Is gonna have to brush
Speaker 1: this one off, Brad. They're just gonna have to again
Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board, go back to the video,
Speaker 1: analyze it, but hopefully rely on some of these players
Speaker 1: coming back into action getting fully fit. Can they somehow
Speaker 1: turn the page, get a fresh start and it starts
Speaker 1: of course, next week with a final road game of
Speaker 1: three straight away games against Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I've been a part of these every single season, right.
Speaker 3: You lose a couple three nil, we've lost four nil.
Speaker 3: We've lost that home to the La Galaxy four nil.
Speaker 3: We had to give back fans their money. So I've
Speaker 3: been a part of them before, and it's how you
Speaker 3: pick up the bootstraps, right, there's no easy answer at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, but it's about coming together
Speaker 3: as a group and looking forward to the next opportunity.
Speaker 3: That's all you can do. Going for a good week
Speaker 3: of training. You know, schmetzill lay into them again after
Speaker 3: this one. We'll get a chance to talk with Schmitz
Speaker 3: and see what this team makes in adjustments. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: a formation change, right, because the results aren't coming in
Speaker 3: what they're doing, so it might have to be a
Speaker 3: formation change. But just stick together as a group, collective
Speaker 3: and get back to work at Dallas.
Speaker 2: Yep, maybe go back to what you know.
Speaker 1: But the Sounders, it didn't start well. Second minute it
Speaker 1: was to Verse CoV. We picked the ball up ten
Speaker 1: yards from goals, slotted in the back of the net.
Speaker 1: Worst start possible for the Sounders. Then it was good
Speaker 1: doin the fortieth and just before the halftime whistle it
Speaker 1: was Chucky Lasagna with his first.
Speaker 2: Goal for San Diego to go into the locker room.
Speaker 1: Three goals up and that stood strong throughout the second
Speaker 1: half and San Diego come away with it with a
Speaker 1: three nil win against the Sounders after a three to
Speaker 1: two win last week at home against LAFC. Well, thanks
Speaker 1: for everyone involved in today's broadcast. Chris Kidd here in
Speaker 1: the booth, Keiey Dunning, Kevin kay Is always for their
Speaker 1: great information. Of course, the Sounders legend Brad Evans alongside
Speaker 1: me for the game tonight. The team will be back
Speaker 1: on the road next week, as we mentioned for that
Speaker 1: trip to Dallas, he's as Ferrera and port Ariola's old
Speaker 1: stomping grounds, which would be the last, as we mentioned,
Speaker 1: of three straight away games.
Speaker 2: But for now we'll take a short break.
Speaker 1: Jackson Pete a MOZ will take you through the postgame analysis.
Speaker 1: I think it's not going to be too cheery from
Speaker 1: snap Dragon Stadium in San Diego. Finishes very disappointingly for
Speaker 1: the men in Green. It's San Diego FC three the
Speaker 1: Sounders nil.
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