Their first training session of the season following a defeat saw the Sounders provided little time to dissect what went wrong on Sunday in Los Angeles.
In fact, the coaching staff skipped the usual postgame video room breakdown with players and instead chose to focus on highlights of Wednesday night’s upcoming CenturyLink Field opponent, the San Jose Earthquakes. Players were nonetheless emailed the usual personalized video clips post-match of their performances in Sunday’s 4-1 loss to LAFC and were likely a little more incentivized to pay attention to some of what didn’t work.
“You look at film a little bit deeper when you lose because there are obviously a ton of errors on our side, on our part, things that we can get better on,’’ midfielder Cristian Roldan said.