The New York Red Bulls are in Seattle for Week 3 of MLS 2017. RBNY is bringing a long regular-season unbeaten streak to the game; the Sounders are bringing MLS Cup.
This is the marquee match-up of the week, though this is a new season and last year's reputations ought to have been cast aside in the off-season. But in the early stages of any campaign in MLS, there is little to go on but how the team's performed the year before. So expectations are generally that both these sides will prove to be above-average in 2017, because that is what they proved to be in 2016.