Stefan Frei’s world-class save and Roman Torres’ game-winning penalty kick were the signature moments of the Seattle Sounders’ MLS Cup victory last season over Toronto FC.
What gets overlooked in that victory was that Seattle won the championship without scoring a goal in 120 minutes of action. A step further – the Sounders were not credited with a shot on goal against Toronto to become the first club to win MLS Cup in this fashion.
It is a subject one year later that still gets Seattle coach Brian Schmetzer a little irritated.
“That no shots-on-goal stat is kind of bothering me a little bit, because if you watch the replay of the game last year, there were two or three moments where we had the ball in their end,” Schmetzer said.