It’s early. So let’s start there.
March form means different things to different teams. For a squad like Houston’s, this is an unusually critical month. The Dynamo, for instance, finished dead last in the Western Conference a year ago, and with so many new faces in critical positions in the mix, new coach Wilmer Cabrera desperately needed an early jolt to prove to his young squad they were on a new trajectory. Another poor start to the year and he might’ve lost the locker room before he’d had a chance to win it.
The Sounders are in a decisively different place, and they’re certainly lacking for that confidence regardless of what happens this month.