SEATTLE — There are a few ways to look at the Seattle Sounders’ current form. The optimistic way is to see their franchise-record 12-game unbeaten streak as indicative of a team hitting their stride at the perfect time. The more pessimistic look sees them on a three-game winless run and at least four games removed from their last quality win.
Neither are wrong, necessarily, but we’d be silly not to at least acknowledge some frustrations over the past month or so. As head coach Brian Schmetzer said on Monday, “We’ve been grumpy [before] the last three games in a row and we’re still grumpy.