As the Seattle Sounders’ season has gone increasingly off course during the summer, there’s been a growing sensation that luck simply isn’t on their side. The 2-1 loss to the Portland Timbers on Friday was a good example.
The equalizer came on a highly questionable penalty on which VAR somehow didn’t intervene despite ample evidence that no foul occurred. The Sounders also had a glorious look at their own equalizer, only for Jackson Ragen to put his open header off the underside of the crossbar and for it to ricochet out instead of in.