We knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Some team — maybe even at home — was going to simply decide that falling into a defensive shell and looking to spring the counter was the only way they could slow down the Seattle Sounders.
I think we all hoped that it wouldn’t come quite this early in the season — nor that it would come on the road against one of their Cascadia rivals — but it happened on Saturday. The Vancouver Whitecaps played with nine or even 10 players in the box for much of the game and simply dared the Sounders to beat them that way.