Wednesday’s match against Real Monarchs SLC was always gonna be a tough matchup for Seattle Sounders FC 2; the Monarchs are just a better team who are much more concerned with winning USL than S2 is. The mismatch was made worse by a bit of schedule congestion that saw the S2 staff decide to rest all of their first string field players in favor of Academy Players and First Teamers seeking match fitness.
It is an important part of S2 to get Academy Players game time, but the switch may have been too drastic in this case.