Seattle will take a significant lead into next Sunday's decisive leg in Frisco.
Three goals in an eight-minute stretch of the second half powered the Sounders to a stunning 3-0 victory over top-seeded FC Dallas in the first leg of their Western Conference semifinal series on Sunday night at CenturyLink Field.
These are my first impressions:
– This was the greatest playoff performance in Seattle’s MLS history.
Certainly, those successes in the early years were enhanced by their sense of newness, of a trajectory that only ever seemed to chart ever upward every season.