Well, that was very fun until it very much wasn’t. For most of the game on Saturday night the Seattle Sounders were their usual, dominant selves. The Portland Timbers weren’t a threat until they were very, very much one. However, the dominance only produced one goal and soccer matches are — in fact — 90 minutes. A 20-minute blitz of horrific errors from the Sounders and some Timbers voodoo later, the match ends 4-1 in favor of the home team. So what the hell happened? Here are five things to explain why the Sounders collapsed.
Five things that went wrong in Sounders’ loss to Timbers
