SEATTLE — It may just be one game, but the Seattle Sounders did just about everything they possibly could to flip the slow-start narrative. Despite giving up an early goal to expansion FC Cincinnati, the Sounders dominated throughout and ended up with a 4-1 win on Saturday. It was the first time they’d won a season-opener since 2015 and gives them just their second win in March since the start of the 2016 season.
It didn’t exactly start that way, though. After Raúl Ruidíaz hit the post off of an inch-perfect Cristian Roldan cross, FC Cincinnati stormed ahead with an absolutely amazing strike from Leonardo Bertone and threatened to grab a 2-0 lead on Alvas Powell’s 40-yard blast that went just wide.