No where in the How To Be A Soccer Fan handbook does it say that things are supposed to be easy. Also nowhere in that fictitious handbook does it state that things are supposed to go according to plan. If the other team gets a red card in the 6th minute of a match, you have to win that game. It’s not easy. It’s not fun. You just have to win that game.
The Sounders didn’t do that. They were lucky to get a point. They got Zlatan’d. They looked good. They looked absolutely dreadful. They were all the things.