Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer is taking his youth movement on the road.
The team’s preferred starting lineup is still short-handed due to international call-ups and injuries that brought three Tacoma Defiance players to first-team action, including teenagers Danny Leyva (16) and Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez (17).
Each experienced an MLS first in a win against Vancouver last week. The trio, which also includes recently signed 24-year-old Justin Dhillon, will likely be called on again when the Sounders (8-4-5) play at New York FC (6-1-8) on Wednesday.
Next game
Sounders at NYFC
When: 4 p.