The New York Red Bulls 18-game unbeaten streak in the MLS regular season was snapped in Seattle, as the home team cruised to its first win of the new campaign. The Sounders were 3-1 winners. As the scoreline suggests, it was an ultimately comfortable rejection of RBNY’s effort to rain on the home team’s latest chance to parade its status as the defending MLS Cup champions.
The Red Bulls were first undone by a mistake. Damien Perrinelle misjudged the speed of Seattle turf and sent Luis Robles a hospital pass that offered more to the Sounders’ Jordan Morris than the unfortunate RBNY ‘keeper.