SEATTLE — Heading into Thursday’s Western Conference Knockout Round win over Sporting Kansas City, Seattle Sounders forward Nelson Valdez had gone 364 days and 33 appearances without a goal.
He now has two in three days.
Valdez opened the scoring for Seattle in the 50th minute of its convincing 3-0 first leg win over FC Dallas in the Western Conference Semifinals on Sunday evening. And what followed next was something of pure alchemy.
The Sounders rattled off three goals in a devastating eight-minute span to take a commanding aggregate lead heading into the second leg in Frisco, Texas, next Sunday.