Tell anyone that they can head home from the away game of a two-legged series up 2-0 and they’ll take it no questions asked. Yet, there’s plenty of reason to think the Seattle Sounders should be feeling even better than they are after doing just that to the Houston Dynamo on Tuesday.
So let’s just get the reasons this is a little frustrating out of the way early. Simply put, the Sounders had the chances to make this a 5-0 dismantling. There was Nicolas Lodeiro failing to convert the penalty; Roman Torres missing an open header on the ensuing corner; Joevin Jones flubbing a chance in front of goal a few moments later; Victor Rodriguez ringing the crossbar late; and then both Henry Wingo and Lamar Neagle failing to convert the rebound on the doorstep.