Sounders 0-4 vs LAFC POST MATCH SHOW

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Speaker 3 (00:27):
Well, there's some games you just want to forget, and
this will be one of the games for the Seattle
Sounders that they want to absolutely forget very quickly, move on,
move forward, especially come with Portland coming up on Saturday,
but one that we certainly want to forget. Here for
the Sounders tonight four nothing loss at LAFC down at

(00:48):
BMO Stadium. For Danny Jackson and Brad Evans who had
the call, certainly I know that the flight they're going
to be taken back with the guys will be a
quiet one back from LA to Seattle, as the team
will then get ready to face Portland on Saturday. But
Jackson felt Pete Fewing will even loop in andersharstar producer
for this postgame show as we react to the four

(01:10):
and nothing win tonight FO Nothing will excuse me tonight
down there in Los Angeles, Pete, We'll just start with
your opening thoughts on like I mentioned, i'll say it again,
a night that this club will want to forget.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, they will. We just weren't sharp, and we weren't cohesive.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
We were too loose defensively closing down in and around
the box. We were a little I'll say this, we
were a little unlucky. The first goal is a deflection
a Bobase's goal. The fourth one bounced right back to
him and he tucked it away. But I've said it
many times in our favor, you earn your luck. Tonight
La earned their luck. Seattle deserve some bad luck. So

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we were in transition. We weren't very good and they
were very dynamic.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
They opened us up.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
They had a goal called back on an off side,
so it could have been five. Brad said that it could
have been five, six seven. So it's one of those
games that Brian Schmitzer is gonna have to get in
that locker room say come on, let's go, let's go,
let's cut our food, let's get out of here. And
the good news is we're gonna go play Portland and
we always get it for Portland. So but this one's
gonna sting, and it should sting until they land at

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Boying Field at midnight.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
We'll probably sting on the drive home for all the
players too, when the guys, when the guys get in
their cars and until they actually you know, hit their
beds and are able to sleep a little bit of
just the anger of having to drive home at two
am or whatever it is after a long flide and
you know you're still in a bad mood at that point.
But for sure, for sure, as the Sounders are once
again losing tonight for nothing down in Los Angeles, let's

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run through the timeline really quick and then we can
kind of continue on. By the way, this is an
extended postgame show. What a game for an extended postgame show.
But we're going all the way till about ten thirty tonight.
We're gonna hear from head coach Brian Schmitzer coming up
in a little bit. We think, as you just said,
this will happen a bit faster. Usually went with like,
we haven't played Brian in postgame show is and the

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reason for that for anybody wondering, because we did so
you know, years ago. And when we started these broadcasts
on KJR in twenty eighteen, we used to always have
Brian Well, that was when you know it was he
would speak about ten minutes after the game ended. Now
it can be as much as thirty minutes after the
game minuted. I think this one might be a little
bit faster with just wanting to get out of Los Angeles.
But once again, let's go down the timeline. Twenty sixth

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minute is when these goals started for LAFC. It's under
with a goal in the twenty sixth minute, took a deflection,
went to the deflection, went took the ball to the right,
Thomas diving to his right, but then the ball redirected
and thus it hits off Thomas's leg and goes into
the back of the net. That gave him a one
nothing lead. A few minutes after that, we got a
corner that was headed by Pedro dal la Vega off

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the crossbar that could have made up one to one,
and lord knows what this game would have been if
it was a one to one game. But it goes
off the crossbar and thus it stays out into the
second half we go, and that's where LAFC really started
to take off. Started in the fifty first minute. He
Bobas on the counter a long ball from under as
well passed it, kind of beat Jonathan Bell and then

(04:06):
a good job by e Bobasi to then get past
a couple of defenders and beat Andrew Thomas that made
it to nothing. As Pete mentioned, there was an offside
in the seventy seventh minute that could have gotten a
goal that it stayed to nothing. Eighty first minute. Just
a few moments later, Denny Wowonga did get his goal,
driving towards got a little bit of a lucky bounce
ball bo bounces back to his foot and then off

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of it into the back of the net that made
it three to nothing. And then Ya Boa in the
eighty sixth minute kind of, you know, pta he gave
I think a nice welcome to Major League soccer moment
to young Stuart Hawkins who comes onto the field a
few minutes before, kind of getting some good action down
there against ali Is, some good LAFC attackers and Yo
Boa sort of just you know, got him going one way,

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came back the other way, a good play from Yeboa
and that made it for nothing and really all the goals,
you know, maybe the first one obviously took a flat,
but some good goals there from LAFC.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, really good goals, you're right. And poor Stuart Hawkins.
He reminds me a bit of a Justin Glad who
plays for RSL. Justin's now a pretty experienced professional. Stewart
just bit on that one and was not able to
recover quick enough and it was a tremendous finish from
your bow. I feel bad for Andrew Thomas, you know,
that one nicked off the inside of the post.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
He had a good look at the whole goal.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Andrew couldn't cut an angle because he's right in the
middle of the goal. And and yeah, Andrew tonight he
was hard done a few times. The four goals against
him in goal does not really reflect is you know.
He made a couple of big saves as well, So
that was a That was a tough game. And again
we never really got the rhythm. We never you know,

(05:47):
we missed that near post run and then the cutback
we didn't. We had a lot of that in our
last few games here. It was a little bit disjointed.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's the voice of Pete Fewing. My name is Jackson
Felis our producer to Andrews Hurst Andrews and I know
you you're right. For Emerald City Spectrum. You do player
ratings after each of the eight games, and best Pete's
talking about Andrew Thomas there. It makes me kind of wonder.
There's a number of players who obviously had you know,
had rough days. But for Andrew Thomas right now, working
behind Steph and Fry, it was a tough day for him,
but not a lot.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
He could do, you know, Yeah, It's just it's one
of those days where if you're a goalkeeper and you
let in four goals, you're never gonna be happy, right
But I look at all four of those goals and
I don't really see much else he could have done.
Like Pete was mentioning earlier, it was a couple of
deflections and a lot of them were one on one opportunities.
It's not like they were savable shots by any means.
So it's just a tough day at the office and

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an unfortunate day for Andrew Thomas to have to step in. Usually,
you know, you expect Sounders to have a pretty good
defense in front of him, but it just wasn't the
case today.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know, we we spent a lot of time talking
about individual guys and been so high on Danny Lava
this season, and I think we can all kind of
you know, pe you go first and the Naners jump in,
talk about Danny Lava and the fact that you know
he's gotten these limited opportunities because the dominance in the
midfield from Obed Vargas and Christian rolled on. Well, Christian
stays back in Seattle for some rest. Obed's on the bench,

(07:07):
Danny and JP get the start, and I certainly did
not see enough today from Danny Lava.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I thought the first half he was good.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I thought he was clean, he picked off some good passes,
He had some good picked off some good passes, and
then he had some good passes of his own.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
I think he likes his legs got tired.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
The only way you can get match fit is to
play matches, and I think both he and JP and
the from the seventy minute on, I think they had
tired legs. Danny miss hit one and it went out
of bounds, and he gave the ball away a couple
of times, and I think he's going to be really disappointed.
Because in a very nice free kick in the first
half that just was a little bit wide. But in

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the second half again, you know, you can do all
the kind of running you want to do, but to
get match fit, you've got to get your miles in
in the run of play in games. You know, I've
seen him be more physically fit than he is right now.
And that's not a knock on him, it's just that's
the reality if you're not getting minutes.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Yeah, And two things I just associate with Brian Schmetzer
coach teams were not the case tonight. One being clean
in possession. There are way too many giveaways and poor
areas for the Sounders, especially in midfield. And two like
just not getting blown out defensively. And it just seemed
like there was way too many opportunities uh where La
was had three or four guys versus one or two

(08:20):
defenders and it was just like, Okay, this is going
to be a goal. So two things you don't really
see in Brian Schmetzer coach teams. I get it, it's
a rotated team and you have three games in one week.
It's still that looked like a strong team on paper
and it's not what I expected tonight.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, yeah, three on three up front, yeah right.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yeah, exactly with the three in the back.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
At the end of the day, Yeah, the three four
three uh did not work overall enough to uh to
keep LFC out of the back of the net. Andrew
made the good you get the good good joke for
our emerald, Queen Casino play the match the final whistle
because really it now allows us to look ahead to Portland.
But you know, you make a good point though, there
was so many LA attacks where they did have the

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numbers and it ended up taking really good saves off
the line. I mean, there was a number of cases
where the notes in here, how you know, a bunch
of opportunities for AFC to have scored in the first half,
more than just that one goal where the balls ended
up whether it was new who, whether it was Andrew Thomas.
There was a third minute really good saved by Andrew

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Thomas off of a Bhobasee shot that came really close.
So you know, all these saves off the line, if
there was, you know, I'll play the match a realistic one.
Any one of those clearances off the line that kept
LAFC only leading one to nothing at the half could
be them. I'll tell you that the play of the
match is presented by Emerald Queen Casino, the betting capital
of the Northwest. But for the Sounders it is a

(09:42):
four nothing loss. We'll take a break here in the
postgame show, we'll still talk about this match, talk about
maybe you know, we talked about certain specific players, but
I think there was a bright spot and a bright
player for us to talk about here, even despite the
four nothing loss.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
We'll get to that.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
We'll keep talking about the loss. We'll hear from Brian Schman,
We'll talk about Portland coming up. A lot to get
to here on the postgame show Sports Radio ninety three
point three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now back to Seattle Sounders Sucker on Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 3 (10:17):
Welcome back to the postgame show, Jackson Feltz, Pete Fewing
here as we are talking about a Sounders four nothing
lost tonight down at LAFC. We're in to hear from
head coach Brian Schenzer coming up in just a few minutes.
Currently hearing from Paul Rothrock and Danny Lava there in
the break, who were just talking about the unfortunate results,

(10:38):
and Paul was saying how the game got too open.
You know, we we kind of you know, hit on
the negatives a lot in that first segment and then frankly,
there's probably still a couple more we could hit. But
you know, I did think that, you know, one bright spot,
especially in the first half, as we kind of mentioned
it was Colonie Cozer Rienzi and Klannie has has been
coming on in that right back, right wing back spot

(11:00):
for Alex Roldan who was recently hurt and even a
couple of weeks ago. Brian was saying, there isn't much
that divides Kolanie from Alex and Pete. I thought it
was another good day for Kilanie.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, Brad Evans talked about some of his adjustments from
his last game. He didn't get beat or as exposed
as much as he did in the last one, so.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
He's he's a quick learner. He looked fresh all the
way to the end. I thought he was fit.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Uh, you know, we just talked about the fitness for
a couple other guys. I thought Colonie looked really fit
and was able to keep doing it. He tries things,
you know, he had a little scoop pass in the
first half up and over to get it to Pedro
de la Vega, and that takes a little bit on
moxy and serious confidence. So he looked pretty good. I
thought he was held did okay getting forward. I'd like

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to see him getting forward a little bit more, but
he did his defensive part and that he didn't get
exposed too much. Where we got exposed was right down
the middle. He was on the right hand side.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, no, I think you know, we talked about those
kind of you know, last gasp defending moments in this
game where it looked like LAFC, you know, as Andrews
was talking about when they get on the break of
you know, I mean they have the numbers, you're wondering
who's going to step up and make a tackle and
take a ball away, and Claonnie stepped up in those moments.
Before we move forward, I want to quickly mention a
couple of things. Sounders FC Soccer is presented by Providence,

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Swedish official healthcare partner of Sounders FC. Also that Delta
Airlines is probably to donate one soccer ball for every
mile ran by Sounders FC players this season through Ray
Foundation's One Mile One Ball program. Well, we wait for
Brian Schmitzer. I think Pedro dale Vega is an interesting
topic that we were kind of talking about in the
break the three of us. What I said and Andrews,

(12:35):
you go first, then Pete All What you respond was
that at moments it seemed like it was you know,
late Nicholas Ladero career moments where it's sort of just like,
you know, they're running around a little bit frantically. I
want to get involved, I want to try to make
something happen, and it just seemed a ton of like
we just did the Delta airlines read right for about
every mile ran by players this season, I felt like

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a lot of miles ran by Pedro dale Vega today
just trying to create something on the offensive end.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yeah, I think one thing that I think separates a
little bit. There are different types of players, for sure,
but I know what you mean by like it seemed
like he didn't really have a ton of help around him,
and he was trying to create things that maybe wasn't
on the same page with his teammates. On that sense, again,
rotated side, that's gonna happen, but these guys train with
each other every single day. He's still and I think
Brad mentioned it on the broadcast. He has an ability

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that is rare in this league, and you see it
in spurts. He he completes dribbles, he takes people on
one on one. Sometimes you know, the decision making is
a little bit if he there, I would like to
see a little bit a more mature side of that.
But he's still only twenty four as well, so still
relatively young. I think I'm seeing the bright spots in

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him more often than i am seeing the downside. And
even though the Sounders lost today, he's one of the
I think positives that we can take away from this
game as well.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
With Kilane.

Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, for me, I don't think he's found his connection
with the players yet, rhythm yet. He's he does have
bright spots, but then the consistency and sometimes you know,
there was two games back and he had a couple opportunities.
He took shots that just sailed over the crossbar. One
Obed was right there too, Albert was right there, so

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he doesn't always see his next pass.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
To your point, how old you say it was twenty four?

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, and that starts to click in at twenty five,
twenty six, twenty seven. You reach your prime, the game
slows down a little bit before you. He is pushing,
he's trying, he's trying to lead right and you know
you have to appreciate that. It's not a lack of effort.
But today, I don't think there was last weekend. In
the pregame we talked about partnerships all around the field, right,

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partnerships on the left, on the right, center backs, those
central midfielders, the high one with Masovski and Albert underneath.
We didn't have a lot of partnerships today, and so
de le Vegg was trying to get something going, trying
to be a spark. And you could even feel because
when Kent came in he wasn't able to really get
anything going. He had a couple of chances to run

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at people. Rothrock had a very good run, used his
body well. But again it all was in spurts today
and we did get exposed in the transition way too much.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Certainly, did I tell you what. Paul Rothrock and Danny
Laver are still speaking right now. I'm not sure how
much longer they're going to go. Let's at least get
in a couple minutes of commercials here and maybe we
have to move around some breaks, but let's get a
quick break in here, and then we'll come back and
hear from Brian Schmitzer. Sounders falling tonight at l EFC
for nothing. You're going to hear from the head coach

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next on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Now back to Seattle Sounders Sucker on Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 3 (15:47):
Sounders falling tonight at LAFC four nothing a loss for
the Sounders in Los Angeles, Let's head back down to
BMO Stadium, where head coach Brian Schmitzer about to speak
at his press conference right now.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Thank you, sir h Obviously not the result you wanted.
But where did you start to see this game start
to sort of unravel? Or Danny and Paul seemed to
think it was really after to zero, But I don't know,
did you like the way it was going before that?

Speaker 7 (16:15):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (16:16):
To zero? I mean, look, the second goal, yeah, kind
of made it a real challenge.

Speaker 9 (16:23):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (16:25):
I would say, you know, look again, everything you you
reflect and you think about yourself first, what.

Speaker 9 (16:32):
Could I have done better? What could the coaches have
done better.

Speaker 8 (16:35):
You know, the first goal, Jeremiah, Uh, you know, top
of the box was open. We didn't have a guy
in that area. Klonny had gone out and cleared a
deeper ball. Hey zeus ended up marking because they overran
you know, they overran us with six guys in the box.

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But you know, we need to do a better job
there of you know, making sure that that area of
the field is covered. And so even that first goal
just seemed to typify or Night. Andrew makes that save, easy,
HiT's new who in the shand goes it goes into goal.

Speaker 9 (17:14):
So tough, tough start.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
Uh, you know, I thought after the goal, you know,
we played a little better towards the end of the
second half. Look, we had the crossbar, it's some half
chances here there. You know, the set pieces were good.
But yeah, it seemed like coming out of halftime we
needed to extend the game a little bit before we
conceded again.

Speaker 9 (17:40):
We'll go next to Jada Evans, Jedda, go ahead, Thank.

Speaker 10 (17:43):
You, thanks for the time.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
Ryan.

Speaker 10 (17:46):
They also had a rotated squad, but their defense was
a lot better than yours.

Speaker 9 (17:52):
Is that a matter of.

Speaker 10 (17:55):
Or what do you kind of credit that too, I
mean because you also had you know, changes back there.

Speaker 8 (18:00):
Yeah, I mean, look, was it our best defensive game? Noh?
Did they do enough to keep us off the board scoreset?

Speaker 9 (18:10):
Yes, that's a fact.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
But again, you know, again, a couple half chances here
there one to one, uh, you know Pedro the one
header in the box. Uh, you know a sase the
one header. Maybe one of those goes in one one.
It's a little bit different. They had a rotated squad.

(18:33):
We had a rotated squad. But their their team made
the plays. That's all I can say. Jada Will, We'll
watch the tape. But again, if you want to, we've
talked about the first goal and the second goal. You know,
Pedro maybe dribbling a little bit, and our active defending
wasn't great when the guy got in from this side

(18:54):
of the halfway line. That's why he wasn't off sides.
But you know, even the third goal, kim Key, he
does a good job. I thought Klani did a really
good job on bow Wonga tonight. You know, kim Key,
he makes a tackle, but the ball bounce right back
to Bowonga and he toe pokes it in.

Speaker 9 (19:11):
So it's just one of those.

Speaker 10 (19:13):
Nights and then as far as your momentum goes, does
this how do you think maybe this would you know,
kind of impact the fact that you guys had five
unbeaten streak and you know that snapped, and it snapped
in a bad way.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
In terms of for now, the score line certainly isn't
something that we're proud of, Jada. Nobody wants to take
four goals and not be able to put something up
on the other end. We'll again watch the tape with
this group of guys that came out, and the expectations
are is that this group, coaching staff and players, all

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of us together will have a good game plan for
Portland or our drival and you know we'll go down
to Portland and try and collect some points.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Ninko moreto go ahead, Yes, broon, thank you for your time.

Speaker 7 (20:07):
I was just curious in terms of, obviously you've been
working with both the fourth two three to one and
the three four three or three four two one, But
going back to that today, how much was that trying
to kind of match up a little bit what LAFC
gave you with the four to three to three and
or the personnel you were kind of throwing out today.

Speaker 8 (20:27):
I just thought the three four to three matched our
personnel a little bit better. We had had success against
the LAFC with that formation, so that was the reason
behind it.

Speaker 9 (20:38):
Obviously it didn't work.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Second half we changed the four to two three one,
and I think we took at least one goal out
of that formation.

Speaker 9 (20:44):
So you know, neither formation seemed to work tonight today.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
You also starred Osa said Rosario. First start, just your
takes on him. Seemed to have a hard time just
getting on the ball, but maybe a lot of that
had to do with the lack of services into him
as well. But just your over thoughts on his performance.

Speaker 8 (21:02):
Yeah, I mean, look, it was a tough outing to
put him in a game with a rotated squad against
a good LAFC team at home. My expectations for him
they were in line with who he is, where he's
at in his career. I thought he did okay in
some moments. Obviously there's some things that I'm going to

(21:23):
show him on the film and he'll get better.

Speaker 9 (21:27):
But you know, big.

Speaker 8 (21:28):
Body, big body got some good starting points, but he
just needs a little more seasoning.

Speaker 9 (21:34):
That's all said. That's next before follow ups, So go ahead,
ask your question, coach.

Speaker 11 (21:44):
It doesn't seem so by the result, but to me,
it seemed like the gap between the Saunders and the
l A f C is smaller than last year, or
it actually disappeared. How did you feel about the game,
because it felt like at certain point if you Pedro
Heather had gone in, that you had been the game,
so that the result teems a little bit and balanced.

(22:08):
And then what you said about Stuart Hawkins and his
his first game.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
So I'm sure Steve, Steve Toronto thought the same five
to two when he played us up in Seattle. I'm
sure he felt the same thing because I agree with
you the difference between the two clubs certainly up in
Seattle and here, certainly there was a difference in the
score line. But I think the teams are easily matched.

Speaker 9 (22:34):
I think it's a good rivalry.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
I think, you know, I see he's obviously a big
team and we're a big team, and you know some
of the games in the playoffs last year.

Speaker 9 (22:44):
I mean it's it's a good rivalry.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
So the outcome of this game, we're going to try
and move past it quickly. But I agree with you
that you know, the ball drops a little differently here,
we make a play here, the game could be a
little closer. I'm not saying we could have won, but
certainly it could have been a little bit closer.

Speaker 9 (23:04):
And then Stuart.

Speaker 8 (23:06):
You know, it was a tough you know, I talked
about Asase coming in and starting a game, but it
was also a tough assignment for Stuart to come in
when he did, because you know, the game was really stretched,
and you know, he made a couple of plays and
he looked pretty composed on the ball, so overall I
was pleased.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
We will circle back for a couple of follow ups.
I see two hands up, so we'll go to Jeremiah next,
go ahead.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
John, Yeah, Steph and Christian didn't make the trip. I
guess what is there? Is that just rest or? Is
there something else there?

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Christian had played the most minutes on the squad, and
Staph was a midweek and he's an older goalkeeper. And
Andrew is the you know, goalkeeper of the future, so
that's the reason for the decisions.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
I see more more hand up, So Nico Moreno wants
to close this out.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
Thank you? Another maybe question about health? H Yeahmark kim
Off in the second half was Dad because of anything
physically or was that just a decision there.

Speaker 8 (24:19):
Look, there were planned substitutions in this game, the IMR
and kim kihe being one of them, Stephen Christian, you know,
seeing which one of yeseus and Pedro which one was
gonna go a little bit longer shorter depending on what
the game like in Portland is going to how we're
going to start. Ryan Kent not playing back to back.

(24:41):
We don't know enough about him. Paul Rothrock has had
heavy minutes. We left him on. Maybe he comes on
as a sub for Portland. So there were certain things
throughout the game as the score line got, you know, increased,
that we're looking at for Portland.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
That's how coach Brian Schmitzer, following the Sounders for Nothing
lost tonight at LAFC Pete. That's your good friend. Just
very quickly takeaways from what Brian Schmittzer had to say.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Well, we talk about him not getting too high or
not getting too low. This is a kind of loss
that a lot of coaches would just be Caleb Porter
might unravel and something like this, blame the referees and
blame whatever. But Brian focuses on the next one. And
if I'm a player playing for Brian, he doesn't throw
anybody under the bus.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
He doesn't, you know, point fingers.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
He even Stuart Hawkins is going to feel better after
hearing what coach said about his performance as to how
he felt walk off the field. So he's a great
man manager. There's a reason that this team has more
points than any other team since two thousand and nine.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
And so you know he's.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
He acknowledges and takes responsibility. And then you can already
feel that they're getting ready for the next one.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Absolutely well, it wasn't tonight, but this season, when the
Sounders win, you'll win a free Mike Chick in the
next day, exclusively in the McDonald's app with any minimum
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check out the deals waiting for you. We'll get one
more break here and we'll come back and talk about
the Portland Timbers.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Ahead.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Sounders are head to Providence Park for a game on Saturday.
We'll talk about Seattle Portland next on Sports Radio ninety
three point three KJRFM.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Now back to Seattle Sounders. Sucker on Sports Radio ninety
three point three kjr FM.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Sounders falling tonight at LAFC final score for nothing as
the team is now traveling back from Los Angeles and
they're going to start preparing for what's ahead on Saturday,
as they are headed down to Portland to face the
Timbers at Providence Park this Saturday.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
It'll be a six thirty kickoff Provident.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Swedish premat show starts at six o'clock right here Sports
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sixty pete. This is a very up and down Portland
Timbers team. They can score a lot of goals, they
can give up a lot of goals. They are certainly

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lethal in their attack, lots of different weapons. Just saw
him in the Open cups. Certainly did not have their
full throttle attack in that game. But obviously not only
is that the team's on the field, it's the rivalry
and everything that goes into it. Sounders beating the Timbers
in Portland last year with a Rollery dia As winner
in the fiftieth minutes. There's a lot built into this

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from everything, not only in the last year, but since
night the seventies. It's gonna be another very fun atmosphere
at Providence Park on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
It really is a fun atmosphere, no question. And they
have a lot of weapons, you know, Mora, Santos, Kelsey Moreno,
they got guys who can score goals, Rodriguez, and then
they got Diego Chara and I you know he's there,
Ausieu for sure.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
I mean he is.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
He's kind of the backbone thirty nine years old. You
probably want him as a teammate. You don't really like
playing against him, right He draws a lot of fowls
or gives a lot of fowls, but he's kind of there.
He's the guy that sets the tone for that squad.
The teams are similar in goals for and goals against
and record.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
You know, we had a run.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
About two and five years back where you know, the
winning team was the visiting team, right right, so you
almost wanted to be Those are some spectacular games where
you know they they would come here and thump us.
I remember we did the Champions League banner and I
think they beat us five to two.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
And I don't think Brian Schmetze. I don't think.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I don't think it was that bad, but I know
that Jackson o' reagan did take a red card, a
yellow right at the end of the first half, a
yellow at the start of the second half, and that
basically just you know, very.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Young, right, you know, get Stuart Hawkins today and you say, okay,
there's you've seen the growth with Jackson. We don't see
that happening very often. But I know Brian and a
few others did not like the banner being raised before
the Portland game.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
It was sort of a in your face.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
And there was a time when Portland had a a
billboard right off Highway ninety nine that said you know,
uh but it was Portland, uh, Soccer City.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
USA or something like that.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
So so there's been you know, no, you know, Roger
Leveck getting chopped down in a US Open Cup game
by I think Taylor.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Roger Leveck who he's either from or played in Portland.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Well, he was here forever. He's from Portland, Maye.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Portland, Maine.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, he would, he would prefer you, which is clearly
which is clearly the best and better Portland.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, agreed, agree.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
You know, I've just spent some time. It's a cool
little city. So but you know, there's just been some fun.
Well when you say.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
When you say cool little city, you're talking about Portland, Maine.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
I'm guessing, yeah, there you go. Good recovery. Yeah yeah,
uh yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
This is so My point on all of I've just
given you is you just don't know who's gonna win
and who. And you're right, Portland's been a little bit
up and down. We've been up for four games and
this one we took a thumping, and so now we're
on a little bit of a down. And but again,
as soon as those guys get food in them and
get on the plane, their thoughts will start. They'll start

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as they fly closer to home, they'll start thinking more
about Portland timbers.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, super quick. But I you never want to lose
four zero like you did tonight. But I think the
best time that it can come is right before a
rivalry game. It kind of gets you the kick in
the point. But a little bit, guys, we can't let
that happen on Saturday. Yeah, so we need to make
sure that we're up to standard.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
And I get it.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
Some part of it's part of the rotation and all
that stuff. But yeah, I think if you're gonna have
a ton to do it, it's now.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Because you look at the it's a great point and
you look at the guys who were on the bench,
and you know who are going to be, you know,
likely starting at the Timbers Ryan Kent, who's coming off
of an incredible start down in Houston, where I mean,
my goodness. You have Obed Vargas who was on the bench,
Christian roll Don who stayed at home, Stephen Fry, You

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think about kim Ky he started on the bench today,
Mazowski who will be back there in the starting lineup.
You have Alex Roldan who will be back in so
many I would also you extend it as well Albert
Rusnak who came onto the field, but I think that
he'll be in line to start. So everything is set

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up really well. I think for the Sounders to have
rested legs. And it's a Timbers team that, by the way,
played tonight as well. It's not like this Timbers team
got a full week off. They played tonight in Salt Lake.
They got a zero zero result, so they did get
away result there in Salt Lake tonight and just taking
a look at their lineup and what Portland started tonight.
They started Mora, they did start Rodriguez Fernandez, they did

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start Chara. So Chara is going to be asked to
go three times in a week. We'll see if he
can fully do it. A Lassi, Bravo, Masquerra zuper Rich Miller.
So they did start a not two rotated team against
Salt Lake, So they will have some tired legs coming
up in this coming Saturday against the Seattle Sounders when

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they face off at Providence Park once again. That will
be a six point thirty kickoff down there in the
Rose City six o'clock pregame show right here Sports Radio
ninety three point three KJRFM. It'll be myself, Pete chance Fry.
We will have pre aff post. Danny Jackson will be
calling the game down in Portland at Providence Park, so
we'll be another fantastic atmosphere for Sounders timbers. I want

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to thank everybody with our broadcast tonight a great job
down there at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, Keeley Dunning,
Brad Evans, Danny Jackson back here in Seattle, andrews Hurst
on the board, Pete Fewing here alongside me. My name
is Jackson Feltz. We thank you so much for listening.
We are sorry to have to say it's four nothing
lost for the sounders down there at LAFC, But boy,

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we are excited for what is ahead. It's Sounders, it's timbers.
It is a long history that is about to be
reignited again on Saturday. So we will talk to you
on Saturday at six o'clock. But for right here and
right now, I believe we have PJA Championship coming up
next here on KJR