Rotated squad lets points slip in Frisco.

After winning the biggest game in team history, the Sounders played a massively rotated lineup and got the expected result: a loss on the road to a solid Dallas team. Seattle looked okay for the first 60 minutes or so, bending without breaking and even having a huge chance to take a lead, but eventually Dallas’ starters overwhelmed a makeshift Sounders lineup, and Seattle lost 2-0 in another MLS defeat. Seattle wasn’t credited with a single shot between Léo Chú’s breakaway in the 24th and Albert Rusnák’s shot in the 87th. That’s 63 minutes between shots in a professional soccer game, which is unlikely to get the job done. The field was dreadful, with both teams slipping throughout, although Dallas seemed more prepared to deal with playing on whatever that surface was. Seattle likely cried all the way home to their CCL-champion beds.

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