While the core group of likely starters is on a Saturday-Saturday pattern, the friendly against Nacional is in front of the home crowd, and it is Nicolas Lodeiro’s boyhood club. Over the preseason players have played a half or less during the midweek stretch so you should expect to see several expected starters starting the midweek friendly.
But Seattle Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer can also use the 90 minutes against Nacional to get a handful of players closer to fitness and to increase the competition among the rotational players.
While the subs did fitness after their loss to FC Dallas today Schmetzer noted, “We’ve kind of settled in on a core group of guys but there’s four-five guys in that group that can contribute.