SEATTLE – Two goals from Clint Dempsey and a record-setting crowd for the first game of 2016 weren’t quite enough Tuesday night for the Seattle Sounders, who settled for a 2-2 draw against Mexican side Club America in the first leg of the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals at CenturyLink Field.
Dempsey scored on a gorgeous free kick in the first half and an emphatic header in the second, but Club America captain Rubens Sambueza dished out two assists to lead the visitors from Liga MX back from the brink from a loss on the road in the first game of the two-leg, aggregate-goal series.