It’s been coming for perhaps a couple weeks, but the day arrived when the Sounders unbeaten run officially became a winless streak. The Seattle Sounders’ loss to Real Salt Lake on Saturday was their first in three months, but it also meant they have not won in over a month as well. That’s five games without a win, longer than any winless run they had last year and as long as any they’ve had since closing out the 2013 campaign with seven straight winless games.
This surely overstates the degree to which the Sounders have struggled, but the reality is that they’ve all but squandered their chances at earning a first-round bye (SPI puts their odds at 21 percent).