Writing about the Seattle Sounders’ road successes last year became a bit of old hat. After all, for much of the year, the Sounders were road warriors the likes of which had rarely been seen in Major League Soccer. Of course, one should never take wins on the road for granted, and by the end the of the season, the Sounders’ great road adventure ran out of gas, as they went winless in their last four away from Lumen.
Even still, while opening up with a loss and a draw in the 2022 regu season is hardly a cause for alarm, paring that with an opening day home defeat raised the alert level somewhere between “raised eyebrow” and “dog-sitting in room engulfed by flames.