The Seattle Sounders remained undefeated and continued their best-ever start but will still head into the international break feeling a bit disappointed after drawing 0-0 at home to expansion side Austin FC on Sunday. The Sounders looked to have gotten the breakthrough goal in the 75th minute when Fredy Montero finished off a João Paulo pass, but the goal was disallowed when VAR ruled Raúl Ruidíaz offside.
The Sounders won’t play again until June 19 when they visit the LA Galaxy.
SCORING SUMMARY
Seattle Sounders FC 0 – Austin FC 0
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Venue: Lumen Field
Referee: Rosendo Mendoza
Assistants: Jeremy Hanson, Walk Heatherly
Fourth Official: Nima Saghafi
VAR: Tim Ford
Attendance: 12,895 (limited capacity)
Weather: 70 and partly cloudy
SCORING SUMMARY
None
MISCONDUCT SUMMARY
SEA – Xavier Arreaga (caution) 2’
ATX – Nick Lima (caution) 24’
ATX – Jared Stroud (caution) 45’+2’
LINEUPS & STATS
Seattle Sounders FC – Stefan Cleveland; Alex Roldan, Yeimar, Xavier Arreaga, Nouhou, Brad Smith (Danny Leyva 86’); Kelyn Rowe (Jimmy Medranda 66’), João Paulo, Cristian Roldan; Fredy Montero (Will Bruin 79’), Raúl Ruidíaz
Substitutes not used: Spencer Richey, Ethan Dobbelaere, Reed Baker-Whiting, Abdoulaye Cissoko, Shane O’Neill
Total shots: 14
Shots on goal: 2
Fouls: 10
Offside: 1
Corner-kicks: 7
Saves: 3
Austin FC – Brad Stuver; Matt Besler, Julio Cascante, Zan Kolmanic, Nick Lima; Tomas Pochettino, Alex Ring, Diego Fagundez, Cecilio Dominguez (Manny Perez 90’+2’), Jon Gallagher (Rodney Redes 87’), Jared Stroud (Sebastian Berhalter 90’+5’)
Substitutes not used: Andrew Tarbell, William Pulisic, Jhohan Romana, Aedan Stanley, Freddy Kleemann, Kekuta Manneh
Total shots: 12
Shots on goal: 3
Fouls: 14
Offside: 2
Corner-kicks: 7
Saves: 2
POST-MATCH QUOTES & SOUNDBYTES: SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC 0 – AUSTIN FC 0
SUNDAY, MAY 30, 2021
LUMEN FIELD – SEATTLE, WA
SOUNDERS FC HEAD COACH BRIAN SCHMETZER
On what the team can do to help break open games:
“Probably be a little cleaner.