Momentum is a funny thing. While it’s going your way, it feels like you can do no wrong. When it’s going against you, it seems like you can never catch a break.
The Sounders are very much experiencing that right now. At the start of last week, it seemed like going on a 16-game winning streak to close out the season might at least be plausible. They had just finished up the toughest part of their schedule, after all, and their remaining games were hardly a murderer’s row.
After a second straight loss — this one a shutout at the hands of the previously defenseless LA Galaxy — it now suddenly seems fair to wonder if the Sounders can even correct course enough to get to the playoffs.