For the first time in their MLS history, the Seattle Sounders will open on the road. The first game of the season has the Sounders traveling to BBVA Compass Stadium to take on the Houston Dynamo. This is the Sounders first match that counts since they won MLS Cup in December.
This will be an entirely different Houston team then the last time the Sounders saw them on Oct 12, 2016. The two centerbacks that started for Houston that night, Keyner Brown and David Horst, are no longer with the team. Will Bruin, who started as the lone striker, is now a member of the Sounders.