In some kind of weird, twisted way it makes sense that the Seattle Sounders seem insistent on making playoff qualification more complicated than it needed to be.
The common thinking for at least a couple months has been if they could figure out a way to steal a few points on the road that they’d be fine as long as they won at home. There was a big circle around two games in particular as absolute must-wins: The Chicago Fire and Houston Dynamo, the league’s two worst teams.
Of course, the Sounders did just enough to beat the Fire a few weeks ago, but couldn’t find the back of the net against the Dynamo.