Colorado Rapids coach Pablo Mastroeni used colorful phrasing when asked how his team planned to overturn the 2-1 advantage the Sounders take into the second leg of their Western Conference finals series on Sunday in Commerce City.
“Bring them into altitude,” Mastroeni said, “and asphyxiate them in the 60th minute.”
On Wednesday morning at Starfire Sports, Seattle coach Brian Schmetzer responded with his own quip: Where was that home-field advantage when the Rapids finished near the bottom of the Western Conference in both 2014 and ’15?
“We don’t make anything of it,” Schmetzer said when asked about the altitude.