With a few days to let things settle in, I’m still of at least two minds about the 2-2 tie the Seattle Sounders were forced to settle for in the first leg of the Concacaf Champions League Round of 16 meeting with Olimpia on Thursday.
The overwhelming feeling I have is one of positivity. This was always going to be a tough match for the Sounders to manage and they were thrown a few extra challenges when it was revealed that they’d be missing not just Nicolás Loderio and Gustav Svensson — both of whom had been in and out of preseason training — but also Harry Shipp, who apparently picked up some sort of illness while the team was south of the border.