This has not been a good season for Seattle Sounders 2, but last week their misfortune reached a new level. They lost twice while playing against 10 men and two of their leaders, on and off the field, were injured, one for the rest of the season. Now they are set to face off against the Western Conference’s top side, Real Monarchs SLC, in Sandy Utah. The Monarchs have not lost at Rio Tinto this season and have only drawn once and S2 are 2-4-1 -4 all time against them. S2 will be hoping to pull off a huge upset in Utah, but ultimately this match will be a measure of S2’s mental toughness and (hopefully growing) maturity and the result will be somewhat irrelevant.