The Seattle Sounders might well be the hottest team in MLS right now. Eight games without a defeat and five successive wins is an astonishing turnaround from the seemingly terminal turmoil that the club was wading through at the start of the campaign.
But now, as almost every year, the Seattle Sounders are in the thick of a riveting playoff race in the West. On Saturday afternoon, they host the LA Galaxy, another playoff contender in the West, knowing that a win will haul them above sixth-place Real Salt Lake and into the playoff positions for the first time all season.