“It doesn’t matter who you were before Thursday night,” Seattle forward Herculez Gomez said.
The Sounders will tell you that the events of July 24 have absolutely no bearing on Thursday’s one-game playoff against Sporting Kansas City, the first meeting between the teams since that fateful afternoon at Children’s Mercy Park.
“It doesn’t matter who you were before Thursday night,” Seattle forward Herculez Gomez said. “That’s the regular season and this is a whole different season. Our season starts now.”
The slate was wiped clean, in other words, the moment the Sounders clinched an eighth straight postseason berth last Sunday against Real Salt Lake.