Once again, the Seattle Sounders come into a match on short rest and short on available first-team bodies. Joining the list of unavailable players for Thursday’s game at Austin FC is Xavier Arreaga, who will have to sit this one out due to yellow-card accumulation.
That left the Sounders with just 12 available outfield players before they signed four players from the Tacoma Defiance to short-term contracts. It’s the third game in a row they’ve had to utilize the Extreme Hardship rule. So far, Samuel Adeniran is the only short-term contract player to have actually gotten on the field.