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Sputtering Sounders in need of a tuneup as they head into match with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, LA Galaxy

TUKWILA — To use Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s metaphor of cars when looking at MLS players and teams, the Sounders FC are a clunker rolling into his L.A. Galaxy’s parking lot.

Ibrahimovic, a star forward challenging for league MVP, told ESPN in a July interview his talents are “like a Ferrari among Fiats. And it can happen that the Ferrari can become a Fiat, or the Fiat can become the Ferrari.”

The 37-year-old Swede has since moved to third in MLS goals scored (18) and has the Galaxy sitting third in the Western Conference standings. L.A. hosts Seattle at Dignity Health Sports Complex in Carson, Calif.