Seattle Sounders 2 are coming off of their toughest two-match road swing of the year where they faced arguably the two best teams in the Western Conference in the Real Monarchs and Phoenix Rising. They didn’t come away with any points from the trip, but they hung in against the Monarchs and looked the better team for large stretches against Phoenix in 100-degree weather. Despite the results it was a marked improvement over the doldrums of the previous six or so weeks where they never looked a team capable of even competing against the top teams.
The turnaround seems to have come in large part due to Coach Hutchinson finding a way to make the S2 press effective.