By Kaitlyn O’Rourke
Wednesday, July 21: 4-3 Win
The Seattle Sounders played a historic game Wednesday night. The game started out less than ideally for Seattle, but in the end, the Sounders became the first team in MLS League history to overcome a 3-0 deficit v DC United and win in regulation. *this was also the first Sounders game I’ve been able to go to in over a year. Coincidentally, the last game I went to was a Sounders 2-0 win over DC United in DC last year.
The Sounders were missing Stefan Frei and Ozzie Alonso to injuries and Jordan Morris and Clint Dempsey, both on duty with the national team. They lined up as follows:
Tyler Miller
Brad Evans, Roman Torres, Chad Marshall, Joevin Jones
Gustav Svensson, Cristian Roldan
Aaron Kovar, Nicolas Lodeiro, Harry Shipp
Will Bruin
DC United scored in the 8th minute on a goal by DeShorn Brown, then again in the 27th minute. The Sounders were playing good soccer, but weren’t getting attacks off, and their defense and midfield had some weak spots dropping back.
Five minutes into the second half, DC United sunk the Sounders ship a little more and made it a three goal deficit. But, Will Bruin and the mighty Sounders fought back, and in the 51st minute, Bruin made it a 2 goal deficit.
This assist from Joevin Jones, are you kidding me?! 👀🙈 pic.twitter.com/R6QIGJO88O
— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) July 20, 2017
Now CenturyLink Field was excited. Everyone knew that the Sounders could come back. 11 minutes later Brad Evans closed the gap a little bit more. Seattle still had 28 minutes to play and had all the momentum going.
Gustav Svensson picked a great time for his first MLS goal and tied it at three in the 74th minute. Just 4 minutes later, Cristian Roldan showed Bruce Arena and the USMNT exactly what they were missing and scored the Sounders 4th goal on the night and sunk DC United’s ship into the Puget Sound.
Here’s the finish from Svensson! Cool as you like. #SEAvDC pic.twitter.com/SCP0HLvLJb
— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) July 20, 2017
*Nicolas Lodeiro picked Cristian Roldan up after he scored and it was adorable
Unfortunately, Seattle’s party was spoiled a little by Nicolas Lodeiro being sent off in the 89th minute with a red card for violent content. Lodeiro will miss the game against San Jose Earthquakes Sunday.
Fun Facts/Notes/Stats:
- Seattle scored 4 goals in 27 minutes to complete their second half comeback
- Seattle is above the red line(YAY!!) and tied for 4th in the west with PDX and Vancouver
- The Sounders have a total of 27 points on the season with a record of 7-7-6
- This was the largest comeback in club history
- Will Bruin and Clint Dempsey now both have 7 goals on the season
- Evans and Svensson both got their 1st of the season
- Cristian Roldan got his 3rd
- 5th time in club history that SFC has had 4 or more different goal scorers in same game
- 3rd time in club history that Sounders have scored 4 goals in a half
- Wednesday night marked the debut of new signing Kelvin Leerdam, a Dutch RB
- Seattle’s first 3 goals were scored within 15 minutes of each other, the second fastest time between goals in club history
- Stefan Frei was selected for the MLS All-Star game, no other Sounders players were selected
Featured image courtesy: @SoundersFC
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