The Seattle Sounders traveled to play the Chicago Fire at Soldier Field and fell 1-0 for the second time this week. To make it worse, this was the team’s third-straight loss and their fourth in the last five games.
As if there wasn’t enough to be frustrated about from that litany of poor results, the way this loss came was not too different from how the losses before it came. With the team struggling to score goals — the last time the Sounders scored was Fredy Montero’s goal against Toronto FC in the 60th minute, 300 minutes of game time ago — the defense suffered a brief blackout and let a completely unmarked player run through the penalty area.