Three-game weeks are rarely fun, least of all when they involve fairly lengthy road trips. But the annoyances of travel and unfamiliar accommodations can be mitigated when you pick up results. That the Sounders were able to grind out a midweek road victory deep in the swamps of Texas meant there was an opportunity to cap off the week with a nine-point haul, which would have gone a long way towards erasing their slow start to the year.
It also presented coach Brian Schmetzer with the chance to continue to test his starters by pushing them into logging heavy minutes, as the Sounders prepare for the summer MLS slog.