The fun, apparently, wasn’t meant to last.
As good as the Seattle Sounders looked in their midweek clash with the Vancouver Whitecaps, they were equally as bad in the first half against the Philadelphia Union. The Sounders didn’t take a single shot, rarely looked remotely dangerous and were probably lucky to go into halftime only trailing 1-0.
It wasn’t until the 54th minute, just before Clint Dempsey entered the game, that the Sounders managed to get a shot off.
There were, of course, some mitigating circumstances. The starting lineup was missing four players from the Whitecaps game — and a fifth was playing with a broken arm — this was on short rest and the 1 p.