Cushioned between general quality play and a few impressive wins, the Sounders’ season has been filled with an uncommon number of near-misses and tough breaks.
It happened again. Breaks don’t get much more difficult than the one fate dealt Seattle on Saturday night.
The Sounders led the New England Revolution 1-0 on the road through a brilliant bit of work from Aaron Kovar in the seventh minute. It was a deserved lead for a Sounders team that owned the first 25 minutes. And then luck turned. Erik Friberg was called for a handball in the box off a clearance that hit him in the stomach.