SEATTLE — They can’t all be masterpieces.
Saturday afternoon’s matchup between the Seattle Sounders and Minnesota United won’t go on display at the US Soccer Hall of Fame. Your parents would probably would struggle to make a place for it on the fridge. But in a long season, function counts as much as form sometimes, and the Sounders at the end of 90+ minutes got what they needed: three points.
To be more than a little fair to the Sounders — and Minnesota for that matter — the matinee probably always figured to be a bit of a grind.