The Seattle Sounders had a bye over the weekend, which resulted in a two-week hiatus between the last match (a 1-0 home loss to Montreal Impact) and the next one (Sunday at Sporting Kansas City; 1 p.m. PT; ESPN, YouTube TV, 950 KJR AM, El Rey 1360 AM).
“We will be off for a couple days,” Head Coach Brian Schmetzer said on Friday afternoon. “You need some time away, you need some time off. These stretches of two weeks of not having a game — [the players] get sick of the coaches yelling at them. They got to have some time away and they use it to be with their families, their kids.