It’s here. One game to decide the fate of a season.
It almost seems cruel, that a single 90 minutes will either grant the Seattle Sounders passage into the Western Conference Semifinals for an eighth consecutive season or send them home to an early offseason. In a lot of ways the 2016 season has seemed longer than any before it, spliced in the middle by a coaching change that more or less cut the season in half.
And now the Sounders are here, either a game from the next round or a game from the couch.
After playing their way into the playoffs with a coal fire-hot run over the last three months of the season, the Sounders play host to Sporting Kansas City on Thursday in the Knockout Round (7 p.