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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The final here from Starfire Sports Stadium. It is LAFC one,
Sounders zero and Seattle. He has been eliminated from the
United States Open Cup here in twenty twenty four. LAFC
moves on to the final where they will be hosting
Sporting Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
But for Seattle, this is the end of the road.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Jackson Feltz, calen Roe, Pete Fewing here for the postmatch show.
We'll have you for the next half hour to talk
about this loss, and we'll get into the game. We'll
get into the dynamics and all that, and then the
full ninety Let's just start with the penalty.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The LAFC penalty kick. It came.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It was obviously called in the eightieth minute. Bowonga hits
in the eighty third. I'll let you guys jump in
here a second, but let me just say this and
leave preface sit with.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I haven't gotten a perfect look at it yet.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We've always seen the replay that they had showing on Apple.
We've all kind of gotten a little bit of a
look very quickly at what happened. It hits an elbow,
it may have hit a hand.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let me just say this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
For the thousands listening and a thousands watching, and the
thousands and thousands here in this stadium, nobody.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Deserved for a game to end like that.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Nobody deserved to have a game end one nothing on
that kind of a soft penalty. And regardless of if
it hit a hand, if it hit an elbow again,
you know, we'll see the slowest, slowest, slowest version and
see if it is indeed a good call or not.
But regardless of of of that, the fact that we
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do have to look at such a slow version, such
a you know, we we do have to look at
it ten different ways in ten different times to see
if it was a good call, That in of itself
makes it very questionable and very soft.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Just based on that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So the fact that this game is decided on that
is such a shame. And I feel for all of
the thousands of Sounder fans who are walking out of here,
whether it's a smile or a frown on their face,
and for the thousands watching and listening you had to
watch and deal with a result tonight that comes on
that kind of a call. I am, it's it's I'm
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disgusted inside that that game had to end like that
calen Roe Pete viewing. But them's the breaks in soccer.
I suppose h and this is what we have. It's
a one nothing l AFC win. But I just I
feel bad for every fan who had to take in
this game.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
It's it's a it's a tough, uh, tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Everyone knows that. You know, you don't want to lose
in a pen. We're playing very well.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The Seattle was, uh, we haven't gotten a look at it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's in our time.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Refs have made millions of bad calls and probably we've also,
you know, disagreed on many calls that were probably right
on their end as well. So it's not a it's
not a way you want to end the game, just
like you said, But the fact that he made the
call before and then had to go to the v R.
If it hits a hand, it's got to be a pen.
That's the problem is he made the call first for
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a penalty. When he goes to var if if he
sees a hand, it's it's gonna stand.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
If he didn't, maybe he doesn't call it. If he
didn't call it, let it play out. Maybe he doesn't
go back to VR and see anything. But it happened,
and to be to be fair to Andrew Thomas, he
almost got a hand to it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
What a great pedal drill drilled it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I mean, I think it hit the side net and
Andrew's finger was right there. But you know, on the
positive side, it was one I'm joking here, but it
wasn't three zero. But it didn't look like it didn't
feel like any of those past games. It looked like
we were on top. It looked like we were dominating
the game, that we were controlling the tempo. And I'm
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gonna take, you know, the field out of it. The intimacy,
the starfire. I think this group learned how to from
their mistakes and how to play against this LAFC team
that front three fail didn't have much.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah, there's there's progress in that regard.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
There was more fight and but LAFC, you know, on
the penalty kick, the quality to strike that ball as
hard as he did, he smashed it. Uh and Alex's
response to me was he knew he hit in the hand,
but gosh, the ball. It was an absolute rocket and
Alex wasn't more than three or.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Four yards away. I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I saw it and I thought he had to call
a penalty kick. And it is unfortunate Jackson. It's it's
one of those things you know, as a coach, as
a player, I've been on both sides of it where
you just get you're gutted. These fans are gutted by
That's the way the game is determined is on a
penalty kick. It was a great penalty. Andrew did guess
the right way. We did have chances. We score a goal,
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Jordan Morris. It's a good goal. He's off he's in
an offside position, comes back on side and then gets
the header and it's a great header.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's the classic coaching move.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Right you're offside and they think they're gonna forget about
and he steps back on and he may have been
just I mean, it may have been a tow. It
may have been a heal like I even got to
look at that either, but it may have been you know,
and watch call it. Yeah, if they call it it
has to be clear and that's the thing, right, and
that really quickly and for accountability purposes.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Our referee to night was Ricardo Fierro. The var official
was Kevin Stott. By the way, uh but to that degree,
we we did get a nice slow mo look at that.
Jordan's off. He does come back on from my eyes
and I sent this out. People seem to disagree with me.
It looks like he's on when he steps back, but
they rule him off.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The problem with with the whole.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Situation is they took a good two minutes to take
a look at the handball call. They took the time
to figure it out. It didn't feel like they took
the time to actually take a deeper look and if
Jordan was off or not, or if you got back on.
That's the frustrating part for me. Take the extra time,
take that two minutes, because you just add it on later.
Instead of adding seven minutes, you can add nine minutes.
(05:55):
Take that time. Sure, of course some time, man, No,
I can't just keep adding Take the time actually looking
to see if Jordan's off or not, because I'm still
not sure.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
So isn't that interesting?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
I mean, that's what it comes down to it's two calls, right,
and one goes but against us and one goes to
goal against us.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But but if you're in that if you're in that
locker room right now, you got coach, right, You got
right your coach.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You're not telling the guys. Hey, look, it's the two calls, right.
You're saying we had chances, we had opportunities.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You're looking back and saying, how could we have stopped
You know, why did they get a.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Corner not a throwing right? Did we clear that out?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
What what was the chance of you know? Why wouldn't
we taken shots?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We really only had what one or two the goal
that got called out sides and a few long distance
shots that were fairly close to Laris.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And that was a big discussion point coming in was
how to solve their back three.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
And we didn't.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I think we could have been a little more direct
after the goal. I think there was a lot of
sideways or uh uh and back around the perimeter in
our half when we played balls for it. Georgie is
a spark, no question, and causes problems.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
He he's so active that.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
He draws players and even if they I think you
said at halftime, killing Even if they don't win the
first ball, if they win the second ball, then they've
got a chance at it. So but I think if
you're in the locker room and you're the coach, you say, hey, Alex,
that's not your fall.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
That's one of the that just happens.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You're flying at somebody and he rockets the ball and
you know you can't move your hand quick enough.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I mean, he could not move his hand quick enough.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Certainly not intentional, but yeah, that's it's just but that
is the way that this is why we all show up,
you know, this is why everybody comes to watch the games.
You know, sometimes you're on the right end of it
and it's awesome, and sometimes you're on the wrong end
of it and it does.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It gut you.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
This whole group, everybody who shows up today, they want
to beat l AFC.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Except for that corner. I was impressed how many.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
LAFC fans were over in the corner, supporting their team,
traveling up here for it. But yeah, and you got
to give credit to LFC because you have to find
ways to win. It was not a pretty game, and
Killen's right, there were times where Seattle had the better
the play This was like this was a playoff game
and that ball was bouncing all over the place. It
had to come down to one little bit of mistake
or magic, right, And yeah, yeah, tough, super tough. That's
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but again that's why you know, you start with, however
many teams in the US Open Cup.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah, fifty sixty seventy right before.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And the quality and the quality will always shine through.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah, yeah it does, and it did, and you earn
your luck. You earn your luck.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I mean when I think about this and that that penalty, right,
look at us back in twenty two we were in Pumas.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah right, we're at Pumas and.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We get too late penalties right, right, and our life
one of.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Them was questionable. Both of them weren't questionable. They're fairly questionable.
One of them was, right.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's a great at the very end of the game,
that was our good luck. That's a great I'm not
saying that, you know, it's not going to come back
around or anything, but you know, we've we've had our
fair share of that kind of luck.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
That's a great point. I mean, it doesn't help too much,
but it's an example. See.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Okay, so I feel like the first ten minutes of
this post game show has been very reason we've actually,
you know, been very calm with ours. Let me let
me just for everybody who wants a postgame show that
does this, let me just give you the thirty seconds here.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was a crap call. We got screwed.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
This is you know, every yeah, I hold me back,
hold me back, all the things, right, anger and frustration
that we can't beat l AFC and all these things.
There's so much anger and it feels like we got screwed,
and it feels like that penalty was completely soft and
it was it was crap and all this things and yeah, okay,
all that is in our hearts is certainly we've been
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very measured so far. But don't take that to mean
we're not very upset about this. Obviously, Sounders losing here
in the US Open Cup going out that angers all
of us.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So yes, we're happy with the run.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We're happy with the three wins that got the Sounders
to a semi final and Brian Schmeenz's first run to
a semi final as head coach, and for the job
that this team has done I mean, gosh, this is
only the second regulation loss in the US Open Cup. Uh,
non penalty loss in the US Open Cup at Starfire
for the Sounders. So it it's been an impressive run,
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but it doesn't have been and it's very frustrating, and
I'm very angry at the penalty and I'm going to
go home and probably try to find every tiny little
angle on that to see if it is right that
it did hit the hand.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Alex's response, he knew, because I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Want to hear that right now. No, I just want
to be angry right now.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I want to be angry that it was a bad call,
and fans certainly want to be angry that it's a
bad call.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
But we'll all kind of go and we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Do the homework and we'll see if it really was.
But yes, the anger is there. I think we've been measured,
but the anger, the frustration is there. There is an
entire game we got to kind of break down because
for ninety minutes, well for eighty minutes, the Sounders played
LAFC ridiculously tough. It was a tremendous game. It looked
like it was going to go to one hundred and
twenty minutes. It was just turning out. I think you
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Speaker 2 (14:46):
Welcome back to the postmatch show from Starfire Sports Stadium, where, unfortunately,
tonight LFC has eliminated your Seattle Sounders a final score
of one nothing in the US Open Cup Semifinal. LAFC
will now move on to host the Fire against Sporting
Kansas City on September twenty fifth. Sure wish that was
happening at Lumenfield, but a last LAFC get that soft
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and you know we won't have I think there was
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a great clearance off the line by Jackson Reagan. I
think that might be the play, and that kind of
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that kept the Sounders in this game for eighty minutes.
We were going into the eightieth minute feeling like, Okay,
this is there for this team. If we can just
get one breakaway, we get one breakthrough, rolls on, Pedro's on,
it's there for us. And I think the defensive effort
is a big credit to why this was still such
a game in the eightieth minute.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well, you said it.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
You said that the Sounders played a tough game, and
I think tough is the right word. They ran around,
they got into tackles. They were good in that sense,
but they didn't necessarily have a good game. If you're
with me here, the quality of the Sounders did not
shine through today. It was very hard working, it was tough.
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Tackles are being thrown around, there was some patience, but
the final ball, the last decision, the runs in the box,
the quality didn't shine through as much as I had
wanted so to call that a good or great game,
I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But played them tough.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
That was the game, the way the game went, because
you could say the same thing for LAFC. Correct What
we saw in the last two with LAFC was very
different than what we saw tonight.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
There wasn't a rhythm for either team.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Again, it's a smaller field, it's a tight confined you
got the crowd all around.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You felt LAFC getting twisted by that for sure?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I mean it wasn't kai Kamara didn't get his way,
Belonga didn't get his way right, and so it.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wasn't a pretty game. It wasn't a pretty game for
either team.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
As a matter of fact, Steve Chileandelo the LAFC coach,
might walk in and say, hey, you know what, that
wasn't pretty, but we'll take it. And I've said that
a lot in a locker room before, you know, And
I've also said in a locker room, hey they were
a little better than us today, but we found a
way to win. So it wasn't a pretty game for
either team. I don't think coach s Metzer will say that.
I don't think Chilandela will say that, but to your point,
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we've given up ten goals against this team, and tonight
we did not give up a goal in the run
of play. That is some progress, something to build on,
and then let's hope that we get a chance to
see them again, you know in the MLS playoffs.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Maybe I think it's, you know, something to build on it.
We were learning from our mistakes. We watched this game
and we called this game last time and it was
three zero over going this just feels like it's July.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Why why is this happening again?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We didn't feel that today and I think that's a
good positive, right which we did change some tactics. We
weren't running around creating space for their midfield. We weren't
pressing up high and having gaps. He sat back a
little bit more when the ball get the ball got
in your area. Yes you pressured, but you weren't spreading
the field and I think that was a positive. And
I think you saw that toughness come through. Now when
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you have that and this is playing a full game,
if you can then find the quality on the pass,
on the final ball, those things will make Sounders the
best team in the West again.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yeah, And the two thoughts on what you just said
is one the physicality that Jordan Morris came out. I
remember hearing after that lost Jordan said, I'm sick of
losing to those guys. And Jordan is such an even
killed guy. He scores a great goal and he runs
the quarters. I thanks a lot of those super f
on you know, everybody else.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
You know, Yeah, he he's just.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Is not too never gets too high and never gets
too low. But today he got into it a couple
of times, and he got into it long, had a
off the ball tackle. Jordan didn't like it at all,
and you could see there was much more grit. Paul
Rothrock brought some grit to the game. So that's positive too.
They're not backing down to La And then the fact
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on the second part that the fact that they again
didn't give up a goal in the run of play,
that's that's a good thing. The other thing we took
away was in the last one at Luman, they were
able to just hit long ball after long ball, and
we didn't see much of that tonight. Maybe it's the
smaller confines, but as Kellen said, we adjusted the tactics
a little bit and it took away some of their strength,
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so there is something to build on. But that's this
is this is again, this is why we show up.
These games are not that's a very very good team
loaded with talent, right and you know that's but the
games don't always go the way you want them to go.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well, you said you to say the LFC in the
MLS Cup playoffs, I'll be the first person to say, no,
I don't want to see them. LA Galaxy, please go
eliminate them for us and then we'll see you in
the West Final.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That would be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But listen, you know a Least Cup run ended in
the core finals to AFC. Open Cup run ended in
the semifinals to AFC. I mean, there's ML's Cup playoffs ahead.
We know that coming up here in a couple of months,
and we'll see what happens there. But obviously, for tonight,
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Speaker 1 (24:01):
You're listening to the home of Sounders FCS Sports Radio
nine fifty kJ R.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Welcome back to the postmatch show from Starfire Stadium. Sounders
have lost tonight in the Open Cup of final, score
of one and nothing really quick. In that first segment,
you know, of the post match, we're talking about how
well haven't seen a good angle of l e FC's
questionable soft penalty, you know. And honestly this is kind
of for us happening in real time right because we're
not getting great angles, We're not getting close up slow
(24:29):
moo shots. And and credit to to some folks on
on Twitter, I you know, for once, Twitter is actually
pretty fantastic David Fitzgerald, Brian Boland who sent me the
the close up slow moo high quality angles and and
what do you think now, I don't want to say it,
so so here here's I mean, honestly, let's just let's
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just let's just say it. We can see the high
quality SlowMo angle comes off of Bogosh's right foot. It
then first hits Pedro de le Vega y Nick nicks
the hand, fine hits, it hits Peter de la Vega
in the right hand, It hits dale Vega's right hand
and then it deflects down off of Alex's left wrist.
(25:10):
It looks like it's so not one now it's two.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You're the one who said it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, I mean, like, listen, the reality of the situation
is I hate saying it and I don't I want
it to be all angry and I wanted to, you know,
say it was a you know, you know what call
and all those things. Looking at the close up high
quality replay, I it does look like a penalty. It
looks like a penalty times too. I want to be honest.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Now we can move on. I can't move We can
move on because we have to move on.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
But that's the game, right and it's just so frustrating game.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
But for for Sounder fans listening, just know, at the
end of the day, that was a good call. It
was a penalty. It was well struck by Bolonga on
the pk No on the Yeah, it was what it
was and it makes us angry, but it is what
it is. As it looks like the Kilio is also
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frustrated by the ending as well.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It is cold, Yes it is cold.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
We'll finish up here, but we can't finish up before
talking about what's next. As the focus shifts for the sounders.
It focuses focus shifts for all fans. Because it is
the Portland Timbers coming up this Saturday. It's gonna be
a seven to thirty kickoff, seven o'clock pre match show
right here Sports.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Radio nine to fifty KJR AM.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
If you can also watch the match via MLM Season
Pass on the Apple TV app. Listen in Spanish language
on l Ray thirteen sixty. But for us here on
nine point fifty again the Providence. We just prematch show.
We'll begin at seven o'clock. Callan row, the hated Portland Timbers.
We went there in May. We got that awesome two
to one win where Ruiy Diez hit the winner at
the start of the second half. That was in the
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early stages of an amazing summer run for this club.
And we would love to see the team take the
frustration from tonight, go down there and kick their butts again.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
They have to have a shorter memory than you do.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
It's they've got to kind of put this game behind them,
learn what they can, but now they've got to focus
on the league. This is something one of the hardest
things to do as a pro going through the league
all of a sudden, having the Open Cup in the summertime,
which is usually you're the hottest and hardest time to
play through. Then they add the League's Cup, which is
a full month off of the actual regular season. So
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your brain is kind of going all over the place
and now having to focus back on what is you know,
really really important of the league and making sure you're
stay in the playoff position, which coach just pointed out
it is in fifth place. But then to go and
have to transition after this kind of loss and go
play you are crossing down rifles.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I mean, this is this is.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
A game that needs to be mentally every player needs
to be mentally strong. Yeah, and we need to see
the physical aspect that we did today as well.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, and it'll have the intensity of this game that
the crowd that Portland puts out, they're in your face.
And every game at Portland or Portland here, it is
the best rivalry in the league, no question.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
And this this is a Portland team at home. They're
pretty darn good.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
There are seven wins, they only have two losses and
I think four ties, and then they've scored a boatload
of goals, but they've also given up. They've scored fifty
four and they've given up forty six. So it's a
team though that you know, they've finally figured out how
they're gonna play. And you're right, Kellen, the we're here,
we are Wednesday, and there it's Saturday. There's not a
lot of time. You got to put it behind you.
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And right now that's a crushed Seattle Sounders locker room
and they've got to they've got to go home, get
a meal, get the legs up, and then tomorrow morning
do a region and be ready to go again.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
But they're gonna go into hostile waters.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
It's hostile waters. And I'm looking at the standings right
now and Portland's three points behind us.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
This is this is a pivotal game staying because they're
on the bottom there, they're in seventh place. This is
a pivotal game to stay above Portland, to stay above
Vancouver who's also creeping in with two games in hand
from us right just only two points away. So this
game is not just a right read anymore. It is
a staying above the line. It is making sure that
we uh pinpoint our Cascadia Cup. It is this is
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this is an important game going forward, and it's mentally.
One of the hardest ones to get up for after
a loss like this.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
The you tell us that once you walk out on
that field, does everything that's happened the adrenaline kick in.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I'm from I'm from here, and I hate Portland anything Oregon.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
My sister was a duck and I get.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I still give her crap that she was older than me,
so she gets she picked first, she picked wrong.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
It's okay, but I step.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Over that line and my life goes away. Coach, you're
a different person on that field. You've known this and
and it's the best thing for me. Was the Kobe
Bryant and Michael Jordan right there. They shake your hands
off off the field, but the second they step on
that court, they are different people.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
And that's what you need to do here.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And I think a good example of that is actually
a Christian rolled on when he gets angry.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Or jump all up.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
These guys are so good at that, and I think
that needs to happen. But in a place like Portland,
it's I'm I'm on the bus now and I'm thinking
I'm gonna kill someone there.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, yeah, good, that's good, because you're right.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That was my mindset r.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
It is tight right now.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
In the in the standings, Uh, Vancouver's a couple behind us,
Portland three behind us, and there's not you know that
there's eight games to go.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
There's not that much time. There's not that much time.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So these frunch time positives though, is the last time
we lost. We lost l a f C to get
out of the League's Cup. The next game was Minnesota
and we went and got to win, right.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We played well, good goals. Again. Let's you know, they know.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
How to transition after a loss. They've done it before.
They've done it a few times. So the fact that
we can con The whole goal for me is to
make sure that losing is not a habit. You know,
can you can you come back? It hasn't and it
hasn't been for the the end of the season. But
once they had that run in July and August, you
kind of see them bounce back every time they did
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get a loss, and they bounced back with authority. So
let's see if they can do that again coming Saturday
off a short turnaround to make sure that this is
you know that their focus is now turning into the
league and then looking forward.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Into the playoffs Saturday night, Providence Park in Portland, seven
o'clock pregame right here nine to fifty kr AM and
seven point thirty kickoff. We'll look forward to talking to
you on Saturday for Sounders and Timbers again. I want
to think everybody with tonight's broadcast here as the Sounders
have bowed out in the Open Cup with a final
score one to nothing lost to l EFC. Want to
think Mitchell Bly back in the studio, CHERR Ryan here
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on side our producers Keiley and Ryan. Great call tonight
from Danny Jackson and Brad Evans. Want to thank my
folks here on pre half and post Kellen Row and
Pete viewing.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
My name is Jackson Feltz.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We thank you all so much for listening and we'll
talk to you on Saturday for Sounders and Timbers at
seven o'clock. Have a very very good rest of your
evening and CBS Sports Radio is coming up next.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The final here from Starfire Sports Stadium. It is LAFC one,
Sounders zero and Seattle. He has been eliminated from the
United States Open Cup here in twenty twenty four. LAFC
moves on to the final where they will be hosting
Sporting Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
But for Seattle, this is the end of the road.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Jackson Feltz, calen Roe, Pete Fewing here for the postmatch show.
We'll have you for the next half hour to talk
about this loss, and we'll get into the game. We'll
get into the dynamics and all that, and then the
full ninety Let's just start with the penalty.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
The LAFC penalty kick. It came.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It was obviously called in the eightieth minute. Bowonga hits
in the eighty third. I'll let you guys jump in
here a second, but let me just say this and
leave preface sit with.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I haven't gotten a perfect look at it yet.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We've always seen the replay that they had showing on Apple.
We've all kind of gotten a little bit of a
look very quickly at what happened. It hits an elbow,
it may have hit a hand.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Let me just say this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
For the thousands listening and a thousands watching, and the
thousands and thousands here in this stadium, nobody.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Deserved for a game to end like that.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Nobody deserved to have a game end one nothing on
that kind of a soft penalty. And regardless of if
it hit a hand, if it hit an elbow again,
you know, we'll see the slowest, slowest, slowest version and
see if it is indeed a good call or not.
But regardless of of of that, the fact that we
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do have to look at such a slow version, such
a you know, we we do have to look at
it ten different ways in ten different times to see
if it was a good call, That in of itself
makes it very questionable and very soft.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Just based on that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
So the fact that this game is decided on that
is such a shame. And I feel for all of
the thousands of Sounder fans who are walking out of here,
whether it's a smile or a frown on their face,
and for the thousands watching and listening you had to
watch and deal with a result tonight that comes on
that kind of a call. I am, it's it's I'm
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disgusted inside that that game had to end like that
calen Roe Pete viewing. But them's the breaks in soccer.
I suppose h and this is what we have. It's
a one nothing l AFC win. But I just I
feel bad for every fan who had to take in
this game.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
It's it's a it's a tough, uh, tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Everyone knows that. You know, you don't want to lose
in a pen. We're playing very well.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The Seattle was, uh, we haven't gotten a look at it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's in our time.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Refs have made millions of bad calls and probably we've also,
you know, disagreed on many calls that were probably right
on their end as well. So it's not a it's
not a way you want to end the game, just
like you said, But the fact that he made the
call before and then had to go to the v R.
If it hits a hand, it's got to be a pen.
That's the problem is he made the call first for
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a penalty. When he goes to var if if he
sees a hand, it's it's gonna stand.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
If he didn't, maybe he doesn't call it. If he
didn't call it, let it play out. Maybe he doesn't
go back to VR and see anything. But it happened,
and to be to be fair to Andrew Thomas, he
almost got a hand to it.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
What a great pedal drill drilled it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I mean, I think it hit the side net and
Andrew's finger was right there. But you know, on the
positive side, it was one I'm joking here, but it
wasn't three zero. But it didn't look like it didn't
feel like any of those past games. It looked like
we were on top. It looked like we were dominating
the game, that we were controlling the tempo. And I'm
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gonna take, you know, the field out of it. The intimacy,
the starfire. I think this group learned how to from
their mistakes and how to play against this LAFC team
that front three fail didn't have much.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah, there's there's progress in that regard.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
There was more fight and but LAFC, you know, on
the penalty kick, the quality to strike that ball as
hard as he did, he smashed it. Uh and Alex's
response to me was he knew he hit in the hand,
but gosh, the ball. It was an absolute rocket and
Alex wasn't more than three or.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Four yards away. I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I saw it and I thought he had to call
a penalty kick. And it is unfortunate Jackson. It's it's
one of those things you know, as a coach, as
a player, I've been on both sides of it where
you just get you're gutted. These fans are gutted by
That's the way the game is determined is on a
penalty kick. It was a great penalty. Andrew did guess
the right way. We did have chances. We score a goal,
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Jordan Morris. It's a good goal. He's off he's in
an offside position, comes back on side and then gets
the header and it's a great header.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's the classic coaching move.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Right you're offside and they think they're gonna forget about
and he steps back on and he may have been
just I mean, it may have been a tow. It
may have been a heal like I even got to
look at that either, but it may have been you know,
and watch call it. Yeah, if they call it it
has to be clear and that's the thing, right, and
that really quickly and for accountability purposes.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Our referee to night was Ricardo Fierro. The var official
was Kevin Stott. By the way, uh but to that degree,
we we did get a nice slow mo look at that.
Jordan's off. He does come back on from my eyes
and I sent this out. People seem to disagree with me.
It looks like he's on when he steps back, but
they rule him off.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The problem with with the whole.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Situation is they took a good two minutes to take
a look at the handball call. They took the time
to figure it out. It didn't feel like they took
the time to actually take a deeper look and if
Jordan was off or not, or if you got back on.
That's the frustrating part for me. Take the extra time,
take that two minutes, because you just add it on later.
Instead of adding seven minutes, you can add nine minutes.
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Take that time. Sure, of course some time, man, No,
I can't just keep adding Take the time actually looking
to see if Jordan's off or not, because I'm still
not sure.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
So isn't that interesting?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
I mean, that's what it comes down to it's two calls, right,
and one goes but against us and one goes to
goal against us.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
But but if you're in that if you're in that
locker room right now, you got coach, right, You got
right your coach.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
You're not telling the guys. Hey, look, it's the two calls, right.
You're saying we had chances, we had opportunities.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
You're looking back and saying, how could we have stopped
You know, why did they get a.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Corner not a throwing right? Did we clear that out?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
What what was the chance of you know? Why wouldn't
we taken shots?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
We really only had what one or two the goal
that got called out sides and a few long distance
shots that were fairly close to Laris.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And that was a big discussion point coming in was
how to solve their back three.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
And we didn't.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I think we could have been a little more direct
after the goal. I think there was a lot of
sideways or uh uh and back around the perimeter in
our half when we played balls for it. Georgie is
a spark, no question, and causes problems.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
He he's so active that.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
He draws players and even if they I think you
said at halftime, killing Even if they don't win the
first ball, if they win the second ball, then they've
got a chance at it. So but I think if
you're in the locker room and you're the coach, you say, hey, Alex,
that's not your fall.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
That's one of the that just happens.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You're flying at somebody and he rockets the ball and
you know you can't move your hand quick enough.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I mean, he could not move his hand quick enough.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Certainly not intentional, but yeah, that's it's just but that
is the way that this is why we all show up,
you know, this is why everybody comes to watch the games.
You know, sometimes you're on the right end of it
and it's awesome, and sometimes you're on the wrong end
of it and it does.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
It gut you.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
This whole group, everybody who shows up today, they want
to beat l AFC.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Except for that corner. I was impressed how many.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
LAFC fans were over in the corner, supporting their team,
traveling up here for it. But yeah, and you got
to give credit to LFC because you have to find
ways to win. It was not a pretty game, and
Killen's right, there were times where Seattle had the better
the play This was like this was a playoff game
and that ball was bouncing all over the place. It
had to come down to one little bit of mistake
or magic, right, And yeah, yeah, tough, super tough. That's
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but again that's why you know, you start with, however
many teams in the US Open Cup.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yeah, fifty sixty seventy right before.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
And the quality and the quality will always shine through.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah, yeah it does, and it did, and you earn
your luck. You earn your luck.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I mean when I think about this and that that penalty, right,
look at us back in twenty two we were in Pumas.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah right, we're at Pumas and.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
We get too late penalties right, right, and our life
one of.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Them was questionable. Both of them weren't questionable. They're fairly questionable.
One of them was, right.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's a great at the very end of the game,
that was our good luck. That's a great I'm not
saying that, you know, it's not going to come back
around or anything, but you know, we've we've had our
fair share of that kind of luck.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
That's a great point. I mean, it doesn't help too much,
but it's an example. See.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Okay, so I feel like the first ten minutes of
this post game show has been very reason we've actually,
you know, been very calm with ours. Let me let
me just for everybody who wants a postgame show that
does this, let me just give you the thirty seconds here.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was a crap call. We got screwed.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
This is you know, every yeah, I hold me back,
hold me back, all the things, right, anger and frustration
that we can't beat l AFC and all these things.
There's so much anger and it feels like we got screwed,
and it feels like that penalty was completely soft and
it was it was crap and all this things and yeah, okay,
all that is in our hearts is certainly we've been
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very measured so far. But don't take that to mean
we're not very upset about this. Obviously, Sounders losing here
in the US Open Cup going out that angers all
of us.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So yes, we're happy with the run.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We're happy with the three wins that got the Sounders
to a semi final and Brian Schmeenz's first run to
a semi final as head coach, and for the job
that this team has done I mean, gosh, this is
only the second regulation loss in the US Open Cup. Uh,
non penalty loss in the US Open Cup at Starfire
for the Sounders. So it it's been an impressive run,
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but it doesn't have been and it's very frustrating, and
I'm very angry at the penalty and I'm going to
go home and probably try to find every tiny little
angle on that to see if it is right that
it did hit the hand.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Alex's response, he knew, because I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Want to hear that right now. No, I just want
to be angry right now.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I want to be angry that it was a bad call,
and fans certainly want to be angry that it's a
bad call.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
But we'll all kind of go and we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Do the homework and we'll see if it really was.
But yes, the anger is there. I think we've been measured,
but the anger, the frustration is there. There is an
entire game we got to kind of break down because
for ninety minutes, well for eighty minutes, the Sounders played
LAFC ridiculously tough. It was a tremendous game. It looked
like it was going to go to one hundred and
twenty minutes. It was just turning out. I think you
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know how we thought it could have coming in before
that penalty. We should spend some time to talk about
how well the Sounders played in that eighty minutes, especially
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
You're listening to the home of Sounders FC, Seattle's sports
Radio nine fifty KJR.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Welcome back to the postmatch show from Starfire Sports Stadium, where, unfortunately,
tonight LFC has eliminated your Seattle Sounders a final score
of one nothing in the US Open Cup Semifinal. LAFC
will now move on to host the Fire against Sporting
Kansas City on September twenty fifth. Sure wish that was
happening at Lumenfield, but a last LAFC get that soft
(15:07):
penalty as we talked about, and they are moving forward.
A few quick notes and Sounder fans, Sound Transit would
like to remind everyone to obey all signs and signals
went around train tracks.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Light rail trains are quiet and coming both directions, so
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Speaker 2 (15:20):
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always have a Emerald Queen Casino play of the match,
and you know we won't have I think there was
(15:41):
a great clearance off the line by Jackson Reagan. I
think that might be the play, and that kind of
leads me into the conversation, and really quickly, I should say,
before we have this conversation, I will quickly mention that
the play of the match is presented by Emerald que Cassino,
the betting capital of the Northwest. And that header off
the line that came right before halftime, it's indicative of
a defensive performance by the Sounders and the midfield too,
(16:05):
that kept the Sounders in this game for eighty minutes.
We were going into the eightieth minute feeling like, Okay,
this is there for this team. If we can just
get one breakaway, we get one breakthrough, rolls on, Pedro's on,
it's there for us. And I think the defensive effort
is a big credit to why this was still such
a game in the eightieth minute.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Well, you said it.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
You said that the Sounders played a tough game, and
I think tough is the right word. They ran around,
they got into tackles. They were good in that sense,
but they didn't necessarily have a good game. If you're
with me here, the quality of the Sounders did not
shine through today. It was very hard working, it was tough.
(16:45):
Tackles are being thrown around, there was some patience, but
the final ball, the last decision, the runs in the box,
the quality didn't shine through as much as I had
wanted so to call that a good or great game,
I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
But played them tough.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
That was the game, the way the game went, because
you could say the same thing for LAFC. Correct What
we saw in the last two with LAFC was very
different than what we saw tonight.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
There wasn't a rhythm for either team.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Again, it's a smaller field, it's a tight confined you
got the crowd all around.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You felt LAFC getting twisted by that for sure?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I mean it wasn't kai Kamara didn't get his way,
Belonga didn't get his way right, and so it.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wasn't a pretty game. It wasn't a pretty game for
either team.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
As a matter of fact, Steve Chileandelo the LAFC coach,
might walk in and say, hey, you know what, that
wasn't pretty, but we'll take it. And I've said that
a lot in a locker room before, you know, And
I've also said in a locker room, hey they were
a little better than us today, but we found a
way to win. So it wasn't a pretty game for
either team. I don't think coach s Metzer will say that.
I don't think Chilandela will say that, but to your point,
(17:50):
we've given up ten goals against this team, and tonight
we did not give up a goal in the run
of play. That is some progress, something to build on,
and then let's hope that we get a chance to
see them again, you know in the MLS playoffs.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Maybe I think it's, you know, something to build on it.
We were learning from our mistakes. We watched this game
and we called this game last time and it was
three zero over going this just feels like it's July.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Why why is this happening again?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
We didn't feel that today and I think that's a
good positive, right which we did change some tactics. We
weren't running around creating space for their midfield. We weren't
pressing up high and having gaps. He sat back a
little bit more when the ball get the ball got
in your area. Yes you pressured, but you weren't spreading
the field and I think that was a positive. And
I think you saw that toughness come through. Now when
(18:36):
you have that and this is playing a full game,
if you can then find the quality on the pass,
on the final ball, those things will make Sounders the
best team in the West again.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yeah, And the two thoughts on what you just said
is one the physicality that Jordan Morris came out. I
remember hearing after that lost Jordan said, I'm sick of
losing to those guys. And Jordan is such an even
killed guy. He scores a great goal and he runs
the quarters. I thanks a lot of those super f
on you know, everybody else.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
You know, Yeah, he he's just.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Is not too never gets too high and never gets
too low. But today he got into it a couple
of times, and he got into it long, had a
off the ball tackle. Jordan didn't like it at all,
and you could see there was much more grit. Paul
Rothrock brought some grit to the game. So that's positive too.
They're not backing down to La And then the fact
(19:24):
on the second part that the fact that they again
didn't give up a goal in the run of play,
that's that's a good thing. The other thing we took
away was in the last one at Luman, they were
able to just hit long ball after long ball, and
we didn't see much of that tonight. Maybe it's the
smaller confines, but as Kellen said, we adjusted the tactics
a little bit and it took away some of their strength,
(19:45):
so there is something to build on. But that's this
is this is again, this is why we show up.
These games are not that's a very very good team
loaded with talent, right and you know that's but the
games don't always go the way you want them to go.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Well, you said you to say the LFC in the
MLS Cup playoffs, I'll be the first person to say, no,
I don't want to see them. LA Galaxy, please go
eliminate them for us and then we'll see you in
the West Final.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That would be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But listen, you know a Least Cup run ended in
the core finals to AFC. Open Cup run ended in
the semifinals to AFC. I mean, there's ML's Cup playoffs ahead.
We know that coming up here in a couple of months,
and we'll see what happens there. But obviously, for tonight,
the Open Cup has come to an end for the
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(20:33):
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(20:53):
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Speaker 1 (24:01):
You're listening to the home of Sounders FCS Sports Radio
nine fifty kJ R.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Welcome back to the postmatch show from Starfire Stadium. Sounders
have lost tonight in the Open Cup of final, score
of one and nothing really quick. In that first segment,
you know, of the post match, we're talking about how
well haven't seen a good angle of l e FC's
questionable soft penalty, you know. And honestly this is kind
of for us happening in real time right because we're
not getting great angles, We're not getting close up slow
(24:29):
moo shots. And and credit to to some folks on
on Twitter, I you know, for once, Twitter is actually
pretty fantastic David Fitzgerald, Brian Boland who sent me the
the close up slow moo high quality angles and and
what do you think now, I don't want to say it,
so so here here's I mean, honestly, let's just let's
(24:50):
just let's just say it. We can see the high
quality SlowMo angle comes off of Bogosh's right foot. It
then first hits Pedro de le Vega y Nick nicks
the hand, fine hits, it hits Peter de la Vega
in the right hand, It hits dale Vega's right hand
and then it deflects down off of Alex's left wrist.
(25:10):
It looks like it's so not one now it's two.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You're the one who said it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Yeah, I mean, like, listen, the reality of the situation
is I hate saying it and I don't I want
it to be all angry and I wanted to, you know,
say it was a you know, you know what call
and all those things. Looking at the close up high
quality replay, I it does look like a penalty. It
looks like a penalty times too. I want to be honest.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Now we can move on. I can't move We can
move on because we have to move on.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
But that's the game, right and it's just so frustrating game.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
But for for Sounder fans listening, just know, at the
end of the day, that was a good call. It
was a penalty. It was well struck by Bolonga on
the pk No on the Yeah, it was what it
was and it makes us angry, but it is what
it is. As it looks like the Kilio is also
(26:02):
frustrated by the ending as well.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It is cold, Yes it is cold.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
We'll finish up here, but we can't finish up before
talking about what's next. As the focus shifts for the sounders.
It focuses focus shifts for all fans. Because it is
the Portland Timbers coming up this Saturday. It's gonna be
a seven to thirty kickoff, seven o'clock pre match show
right here Sports.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Radio nine to fifty KJR AM.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
If you can also watch the match via MLM Season
Pass on the Apple TV app. Listen in Spanish language
on l Ray thirteen sixty. But for us here on
nine point fifty again the Providence. We just prematch show.
We'll begin at seven o'clock. Callan row, the hated Portland Timbers.
We went there in May. We got that awesome two
to one win where Ruiy Diez hit the winner at
the start of the second half. That was in the
(26:47):
early stages of an amazing summer run for this club.
And we would love to see the team take the
frustration from tonight, go down there and kick their butts again.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
They have to have a shorter memory than you do.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
It's they've got to kind of put this game behind them,
learn what they can, but now they've got to focus
on the league. This is something one of the hardest
things to do as a pro going through the league
all of a sudden, having the Open Cup in the summertime,
which is usually you're the hottest and hardest time to
play through. Then they add the League's Cup, which is
a full month off of the actual regular season. So
(27:20):
your brain is kind of going all over the place
and now having to focus back on what is you know,
really really important of the league and making sure you're
stay in the playoff position, which coach just pointed out
it is in fifth place. But then to go and
have to transition after this kind of loss and go
play you are crossing down rifles.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I mean, this is this is.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
A game that needs to be mentally every player needs
to be mentally strong. Yeah, and we need to see
the physical aspect that we did today as well.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, and it'll have the intensity of this game that
the crowd that Portland puts out, they're in your face.
And every game at Portland or Portland here, it is
the best rivalry in the league, no question.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
And this this is a Portland team at home. They're
pretty darn good.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
There are seven wins, they only have two losses and
I think four ties, and then they've scored a boatload
of goals, but they've also given up. They've scored fifty
four and they've given up forty six. So it's a
team though that you know, they've finally figured out how
they're gonna play. And you're right, Kellen, the we're here,
we are Wednesday, and there it's Saturday. There's not a
lot of time. You got to put it behind you.
(28:23):
And right now that's a crushed Seattle Sounders locker room
and they've got to they've got to go home, get
a meal, get the legs up, and then tomorrow morning
do a region and be ready to go again.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
But they're gonna go into hostile waters.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
It's hostile waters. And I'm looking at the standings right
now and Portland's three points behind us.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
This is this is a pivotal game staying because they're
on the bottom there, they're in seventh place. This is
a pivotal game to stay above Portland, to stay above
Vancouver who's also creeping in with two games in hand
from us right just only two points away. So this
game is not just a right read anymore. It is
a staying above the line. It is making sure that
we uh pinpoint our Cascadia Cup. It is this is
(29:07):
this is an important game going forward, and it's mentally.
One of the hardest ones to get up for after
a loss like this.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
The you tell us that once you walk out on
that field, does everything that's happened the adrenaline kick in.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
I'm from I'm from here, and I hate Portland anything Oregon.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
My sister was a duck and I get.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I still give her crap that she was older than me,
so she gets she picked first, she picked wrong.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
It's okay, but I step.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Over that line and my life goes away. Coach, you're
a different person on that field. You've known this and
and it's the best thing for me. Was the Kobe
Bryant and Michael Jordan right there. They shake your hands
off off the field, but the second they step on
that court, they are different people.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
And that's what you need to do here.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And I think a good example of that is actually
a Christian rolled on when he gets angry.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Or jump all up.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
These guys are so good at that, and I think
that needs to happen. But in a place like Portland,
it's I'm I'm on the bus now and I'm thinking
I'm gonna kill someone there.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, yeah, good, that's good, because you're right.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That was my mindset r.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
It is tight right now.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
In the in the standings, Uh, Vancouver's a couple behind us,
Portland three behind us, and there's not you know that
there's eight games to go.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
There's not that much time. There's not that much time.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
So these frunch time positives though, is the last time
we lost. We lost l a f C to get
out of the League's Cup. The next game was Minnesota
and we went and got to win, right.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
We played well, good goals. Again. Let's you know, they know.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
How to transition after a loss. They've done it before.
They've done it a few times. So the fact that
we can con The whole goal for me is to
make sure that losing is not a habit. You know,
can you can you come back? It hasn't and it
hasn't been for the the end of the season. But
once they had that run in July and August, you
kind of see them bounce back every time they did
(31:00):
get a loss, and they bounced back with authority. So
let's see if they can do that again coming Saturday
off a short turnaround to make sure that this is
you know that their focus is now turning into the
league and then looking forward.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Into the playoffs Saturday night, Providence Park in Portland, seven
o'clock pregame right here nine to fifty kr AM and
seven point thirty kickoff. We'll look forward to talking to
you on Saturday for Sounders and Timbers again. I want
to think everybody with tonight's broadcast here as the Sounders
have bowed out in the Open Cup with a final
score one to nothing lost to l EFC. Want to
think Mitchell Bly back in the studio, CHERR Ryan here
(31:33):
on side our producers Keiley and Ryan. Great call tonight
from Danny Jackson and Brad Evans. Want to thank my
folks here on pre half and post Kellen Row and
Pete viewing.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
My name is Jackson Feltz.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
We thank you all so much for listening and we'll
talk to you on Saturday for Sounders and Timbers at
seven o'clock. Have a very very good rest of your
evening and CBS Sports Radio is coming up next.
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