For anyone who has been paying reasonably close attention to the way the Seattle Sounders have prioritized this season, very little about Saturday’s 2-0 loss to FC Dallas should have come as a big surprise. That the starting lineup featured 10 changes from Wednesday’s Concacaf Champions League final — with the one holdover being a player who came out after only 10 minutes — was particularly predictable.
As I said following the Inter Miami game, annoying as it was to lose this game, the circumstances surrounding it are pretty easy to understand.