Sounders keeper Stefan Frei wants everyone to stop panicking over the team’s first loss.
Frei knows all about what went wrong last Saturday in Houston, partly because the team was made to watch film of it Tuesday morning. He knows they turned the ball over too much, got steamrolled early by a fired-up home squad and didn’t start playing their own planned game until it was too late.
But the world didn’t end, even though some somber Sounders in the postgame locker room sported looks as if it had. Frei liked the team’s second half performance, where it controlled possession for the majority, and says it’s just a matter of coming out better prepared for opponents ready to take it to the league champions.