This Seattle Sounders team has managed as dramatic and crazy a turnaround as fans could have hoped since July. And this win — on the road, without Clint Dempsey, without Nicolas Lodeiro, on short rest, after giving up the first goal — has really put an exclamation point on an amazing run. Seattle has surged up to 5th in the West, with 3 games left to potentially move higher (of course, that’s easy to say, and there’s a long way to go).
If last week made the playoffs feel like a solid bet, this win makes it pretty safe to go all in.