SEATTLE — It would hardly be hyperbole to suggest the Seattle Sounders’ season was hanging at the precipice on Sunday. Already an extreme long-shot to make the playoffs after claiming just one point in their previous five, anything short of a win at home against the lowly Houston Dynamo would have made a season-salvaging run virtually impossible.
Through the first 58 minutes, the Sounders had played like a team who knew this. There was an urgency about them, a certain determinedness that hadn’t always been there. A somewhat unlucky goal had left them training 1-0 at that point, but the Sounders were outshooting their opponents 13-3 and had been dominant in their control of the field.