The injury/absences situation continues to brutalize any chance the Seattle Sounders have at victory. It’s for no lack of trying. The Next Man Up theory is working about as well as it can. Brian Schmetzer continues to tweak the formation, trying to get the attack to be even average.
He’s tried the typical 4-2-3-1 (going 1-4-2 -4), the 5-4-1 (1-1-0 +0), and lately a 4-1-4-1 (0-1-0 -1). Will Bruin was the stalwart up top until he went down with injury, and now it’s Clint Dempsey’s turn there.
There may be no better symbol of injury-meets-trying-to-fix-things than right mid/wing.