Maybe things would have been different if the match hadn’t been rescheduled. Maybe things would have been different if its new date wasn’t during the FIFA international break, leaving Seattle without 10 of its players.
But one can’t change the past nor its outcomes.
In a match that was originally supposed to happen in April, yet due to inclement weather was rescheduled to Sept. 7, the Sounders fell 2-0 to the Colorado Rapids at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo.
Seattle (13-9-7) was without 10 of its players due to international call-ups. Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer called up two players from the Tacoma Defiance (Nick Hinds and Shandon Hopeau) to help fill the void, yet it wasn’t enough to stop the Rapids (9-14-6).