As starts to the season go, a 4-0 win over Minnesota United is a pretty good one for the Seattle Sounders. The win wasn’t as comfortable as the scoreline might suggest, though.
Adrian Heath’s side came into this game looking for a bit of payback for the 2020 Western Conference Final, pressing the Sounders and largely keeping them stuck inside their own half. When Seattle avoided giving up what likely would have been a questionable penalty for a handball on Josh Atencio (there was an offside player involved in the run up to the handball) and went down to the other end and earned their own PK things seemed to be turning around.