A shutout win
The Sounders under Brian Schmetzer have always been a stronger defensive team. This year hasn’t necessarily been any different, although their last shutout came on April 6th. After posting 3 shutouts in their first 5 games, the Sounders went on a run of 5 games without a clean sheet. That changed against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night. Even more impressively, they did it without 2 of their 6 starters in the back six, and arguably the two most important members of the defensive unit, Chad Marshall and Gustav Svensson.