Preseason has been in fully swing for nearly three weeks and we finally got to see the Seattle Sounders play a match. There’s only so much you can gather from Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Houston Dynamo — especially considering the whole lineup was swapped around the 60th minute — but there were several things at least worth talking about a bit more.
The Sounders opened the match with a group that could very well be the Starting XI on First Kick, and it clicked right away. Scoring chances came early and often and they grabbed a 2-0 lead before the match was 20 minutes old.