Struggling Sounders search for solutions

After another sluggish performance, Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer lamented his team's sudden downturn in fortunes.

This isn’t the Sounders team he’s used to seeing.

With only one win in their last five matches — and three goals scored — the symptoms that ail the Sounders aren’t necessarily acute, but if the problem isn’t diagnosed and corrected, threatens to become chronic.

“What I saw were quite a few things that we could do better,” Schmetzer said. “We started falling into the same trap of giving slopping balls away [and] giving the ball away early.”

Schmetzer was particularly concerned about the first goal the Sounders conceded, both the nature and timing right before the end…