SEATTLE — Three games, three losses, three red cards. The Sounders’ early season has been nothing short of a disaster, a statement that could easily be applied to just the losses. But when you pile on the fact that a player has seen red in each of those? Disaster almost seems like an understatement.
Even though the team hasn’t played particularly awful in at least two of those matches, their inability to score goals and properly organize themselves on the field has led to a surge in frustration—which leads to emotional outbursts like Kelvin Leerdam’s on Saturday when VAR encouraged the head referee to send the right-back off for violent conduct.