TUKWILA, Wash. – If you had told Seattle Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid before the season that forwards Herculez Gomez and Oalex Anderson would each be making a serious push for first-team minutes after five games, he might not have believed it.
But the Sounders’ attack has struggled at the outset of 2016, managing just four goals in their first five matches, with only two of those coming from the run of play. In Anderson and Gomez, the Sounders might have an unlikely anecdote.
Both players put in encouraging shifts as substitutes in Seattle’s 1-1 draw with the Houston Dynamo last weekend, culminating in Anderson delivering the cross on defender Chad Marshall’s desperation stoppage-time equalizer.