There’s no such thing as a must-win game to start the season. The Seattle Sounders, however, found themselves in pretty close to one on Sunday.
This was obviously not a mathematical situation, and in the locker room I seriously doubt there was anything like that level of consequence given to the first league match of the season.
Coming off what was arguably the most disappointing result in franchise history on Thursday, Sounders fans were in desperate need of positivity. A win wasn’t literally needed to keep the season from falling apart in any sort of real sense, but things were starting to look pretty bleak in the comments section around these parts.