HOUSTON – Some cooler-than-usual temperatures at kickoff had fueled hope the Sounders might finally solve their puzzling, years-long quest for a win in these typically-muggy climes.
But that was before the Houston Dynamo turned the heat right back up again Saturday with a revamped attack that had the defending Major League Soccer champions running around in their own end. By the time it was done, the sluggish-looking Sounders had taken a 2-1 loss and are winless in eight tries at BBVA Compass Stadium since its 2012 inception.
The Dynamo, last place Western Conference finishers a season ago, had imported Honduran strikers Romell Quioto and Alberth Elis with the hope they might ignite an attack that had stalled along with embattled forward Erick Torres.