This was not how the Seattle Sounders intended to start the 2016 season.
The laundry list of unfortunate consequences rendered in the aftermath of Seattle’s 2-1 defeat to Real Salt Lake in Utah on Saturday were harrowing. There were the injuries, of course, but more than that, the Sounders failed to dig a point out of a second consecutive game in which it surrendered a soft goal and arguably had more substantive chances.
It’s still early, of course, but two losses from your first two won’t sit particularly well in the locker room.
Seattle will do its best to flip the page to the Vancouver Whitecaps for next week’s Cascadia Cup opener, but we learned some things about this team in its second MLS game of the season.