Goals from Andreas Ivanschitz and Clint Dempsey gave the Seattle Sounders a 2-1 win over FC Dallas in the first leg of a Western Conference semifinal.
Four days after their knockout-round win over the LA Galaxy, the Seattle Sounders were back on the CenturyLink Field turf Sunday for another playoff clash.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, a rested FC Dallas team pounced on its banged-up host with an early strike. But by the end of the evening, it was the Sounders with all of the energy — scoring a pair of second-half goals to seize a 2-1 win in the Western Conference semifinal first leg.