Despite the latest in a series of losses to a Mexican team in the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League on Wednesday night, Seattle Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid insisted the gulf of quality between Major League Soccer and Liga MX might not be as big as some critics would like to think.
The Sounders dropped the second leg of their SCCL quarterfinal series against Club America 3-1 at Estadio Azteca to fall 5-3 on aggregate over the two games against Club America, eliminating the Sounders from the tournament. Only two MLS teams have been able to topple a Mexican team in the knockout round of the tournament since 2008 – the Montreal Impact last year and the Sounders in 2013 – and three of the four MLS teams in this year’s tournament went down to their Liga MX counterparts over the span of 24 hours this week.