Ugly wins count just as much in the standings as pretty ones, but they don’t get much uglier than it did for the Seattle Sounders on Saturday. In a match that featured a roughly hour-long rain delay, two red cards to the Houston Dynamo and 71% of mostly pointless possession, the Sounders finally got the winner in the 87th minute from a player signed to a short-term contract to secure the 1-0 win.
That player was Paul Rothrock — a Sounders Academy product who returned to the organization this offseason after spending the last two years in Toronto FC’s system.