Sounders FC 0-0 Minnesota United POST MATCH SHOW

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Well.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Losses are not fun.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Losses in the playoffs are even worse, and penalty kick
losses in the playoffs are the worst. And that is
what we have here tonight, folks, a penalty kick loss
here in.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Game one, round one of the playoffs. It's still a
best of three.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Game two will be next Monday night at lumen Field
at seven fifty five kickoff seven thirty pre game, so
that will be next Monday for game two. That is
a actual must win or the season is over for
your Sounders because tonight it is a penalty kick loss.
It was zero zero after an exciting ninety minutes, a

(01:03):
lot to discuss, and then in penalty kicks you had
Al Shroldon go right down the middle, Dane Saint Clair
saves it, Christian Rolledon goes off the bar, and then
Danny Leva misses as well. And Minnesota wins in penalties
three to two to take game one. We welcome you
to the postgame show. Jackson Felt's chance fr I here

(01:23):
on nine to fifty kjr am chance. Just where's the
mind at? Is the mind right now at the chances
for Danny mczowski down the stretch? Is the mind at
three penalty kick misses there of the five that the
Sounders took.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Where's your head at right now?

Speaker 5 (01:39):
I think in this for this game, they just need
to get it out of their mind as quickly as possible,
get on the plane and get home and regroup. And
now it's a two game, you know, serious, Well we
forget about it.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, where's for you?

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Where where is right now? Because me the first thing
we said after we hit the off button and we
went to commercial break was mosse because I mean ninety
first minute Jordan Morris two exceptional crosses on the right side,
and the second one in the ninety first minute goes
right to Mazowski in front of goal, and if you

(02:11):
just head it down, it's into the back of the
net and you get the very very end winner.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
But he couldn't any There was an earlier one too,
for moose.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
So that's that's where my head's at right now. Where's
your head out right now?

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Well, as a former striker, I've missed easier ones than that,
and I know it's difficult to do. And he came
on as a sub and he did have two good chances,
and normally he would get at least one of those.
Totally get it where my head's at as I normally
get at least something right with our analytics and what
we're trying to say here, and I got nothing right tonight.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
So we can talk about.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
The game all day long, before after and in between,
but at the end of the day, sometimes things happen
all right. And I mean you can say in the
penalty shootout, Saint Clair got into Alex's head big time
by saying, oh, the ball's not on the middle of
the spot. Nobody ever puts it on the middle of
the spot. They put it on the front edge of
the spot. That's what everybody does. But every single time

(03:06):
somebody was going to take a kick, he was going
up and asking the ref, hey, something something something, all right, yeah,
just clarifying. All he's trying to do is mess up
their rhythm.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
And he did a good job of it.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
And you know what, you got to give him some
credit for that. But at the end of the day,
they everybody, whether it's Danny Jordan, Jordan had a couple
of chances there was everybody on the field could have
done something a little bit better to make the result
a little bit different.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
That's and you know it wasn't just one person.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
So they just need to regroup and come back, get
the win, and then go back there and take care
of business.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
That's an interesting point.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I think it's well put chance, the element of everybody.
You kind of look at a moment and say, man
could have been better there, and I think I think,
you know, even to the defending side, where there was
early big communication breakdowns with Jackson, Reagan and Yamar and
lots of players along the back line. And at the
end of the day, it was an interesting first half. Yeah,
the Sounders had sixty two percent possession, which is the

(04:04):
usual number for Minnesota's thirty eight.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
It felt more open in the.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
First half, and it sort of felt for long stretches
of that first half like, Okay, if you're gonna get Minnesota,
it's right now where they're opening up. They did contain
themselves and play a lot more like their normal Minnesota
team in the second half. But it's just you look
at a lot of those opportunities and say, boy, should
have had that, should have had that.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah, Well, I love Paul Rothrock, but the one thing
I wish I would have seen him do is he
kept getting the ball out wide and then just playing
it back to Neuho, And I just wanted him to
take a little step to his right and whip it across,
whip it in, whip it in, whip it in, get
the ball in the box, make your strikers make their runs,
or at least he's getting the ball in there, and
they've got to learn to go where the ball is

(04:46):
going to go. I wish I would have seen that
a little bit more. It would have been nice to
see Georgie maybe come in a little bit earlier so
he had a chance to run at somebody. He did
not get the ball out wide, not once when he
was on the field, so that was a bit unfortunate
because I think he could have just ran, you know,
ran right by the defficenct.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
I want to ask you about the good things that
we did see in this match, because I think there's
a lot of things that this team's needs to improve on,
but there are some good elements we can take from
this and some good moments that we have down here,
especially coming late in this game.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Boy, it's just it's.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Unfortunate because we were gearing up to be able to
say that our Emerald Quen Casino play the match was
a mooseheader and really looked like it was gonna come
in the ninety first minute, but unfortunately does not go in.
It goes to penalty kicks, and that is where Minnesota
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Speaker 3 (05:40):
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Speaker 4 (05:41):
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Speaker 4 (09:07):
Welcome back to the pubs game show Sounders Falling tonight
in Game one, Round one of the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
It's a best of three series.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Game two will be next Monday night at loomen Field.
We'll talk about that coming up. But for Game one,
it is a loss in penalty kicks, three to two
in penalties after zero zero in ninety minutes. Dame Saint Clair,
who might be very well, might be probably I think
he's gonna get my vote goalkeeper of the year in
Major League Soccer. Fantastic penalty kick shootout and the Minnesota

(09:38):
Loons win it. All right, let's get to some good
things that the Sounders can try to replicate in game
two and potentially if they were to move on, they
would need to do it in a game three.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Chance. What did you see in this game?

Speaker 4 (09:50):
And I call chime in too to see if you
read me, where do you see that the Sounders did
good that we should try to see more of that
next Monday?

Speaker 6 (09:59):
Well, I thought the back for clean things up in
the second half. From the first half there.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
There weren't any miscues and they were very pretty solid
back there, didn't give away a lot of chances. One
thing for me, my guy to watch Jordan, it was
great to see him get ninety full minutes. Okay, that's
gonna be really good for him from a physical and
a mental side of things. And I know you know,
Missowski missed a couple of shots that you know, some

(10:24):
people might think that they were sitters and everything, but
it's so difficult to score, and but he got in
the space to score.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
That was positive for me.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
He's getting in, he's making the runs, and and you know, Jordan,
you know, played in a couple of great balls, which
was awesome, And I think that's something that you're gonna,
you know, talk.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
About, which which was great.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
Those two I think sometimes you know, we might think, oh,
can they play together or not?

Speaker 6 (10:49):
But obviously they can.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, they definitely can.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
And the good that I saw, the really big good part,
was that when Jordan was out on the right and
Danny was up.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Top, frequently, almost every single.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Time anybody hit a ball long on that right side,
Jordan's out running whoever's over there from Minnesota, a couple
different guys and constantly getting in behind, constantly putting in
good crosses, and Mazovsky's on the end of a couple
of them. And I'm kind of saying to myself, gosh,
do you go as far as starting Mazovsky and Morris
in game two and trying to recreate that, you know,

(11:22):
sort of whatever you got there, whether it's Morris on
the right wing or two forwards up top trying to
recreate that.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yeah, and you could even bring Jordan in on and
start on the left where he has he's very very
used to playing, played Danny up top play you know,
Paul can play on both sides. And one thing that
maybe what we do is we take Paul out a
little bit earlier and bring Georgie on to run at them,
because I mean, can you imagine if they're getting knackered

(11:48):
from you know, Paul running at him and then all
of a sudden Georgie's run at you.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Yeah, because one of the things that we saw on
the Wings is that is like, yes, you have Ferrera
who's locked in that right wing, and we know Paul
does his thing. But I think, I mean, Andrews, you
said it. I think best there in the break is
that this team really is missing the creativity of Pedro
dale le Vega. And I think I think that's something
that that clearly stands out in a game like this.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, and getting that creative juice from the Wings is
actually really really important for this Sounders team. They thrive
on a lot of crosses coming into the box. I
think that's why Danny Mssovski saw a lot of success
when he came out in the field to get those chances,
and I think Jordan, like you mentioned it, did a
really good job of finding himself in those positions. So
you might be able to kind of finangle something around,

(12:32):
whether it's putting Heyesus up top or maybe moving him
to the left, getting Jordan on the right, starting Danny Mssovski.
However you want to kind of move things around, I
think it's there's a lot of options to kind of
get from what you got in that last twenty minutes
and maybe get it for a full ninety.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Trying to create that creativity right and just you know,
get Minnesota off their game and get him off balance
and not knowing where the guys are going at any
certain moment.

Speaker 5 (12:53):
In transition, that's the space they're going to give you
because as they're going back where they're running, they're running
towards their goal. That's the thing they're trying to and
they will leave the wings open for a moment. And
that's why Jordan we clipped the ball through a couple
of times on both sides and he was able to
run onto it quite easily.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
I just don't want to take off any of Ferreira
or Roosnak or rolled On or Vargas. I don't want
to take off any of that group. And I think,
you know, if we do have this idea of starting
Danny mczowski and Jordan Morris together in some combination, I'm sorry,
Paul Rothrock, but I just don't think that I didn't
see enough from him today and I think that we

(13:30):
need more basically threats at goal. And Zoski didn't score,
but at least he's more of a threat in my opinion.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Yeah, I think players going at them like you're talking
about de la Vega. That's the one thing he does
do is he takes chances. All Right, you're gonna lose
the ball sometimes if you're a dribbler, you'll lose the ball,
but go for it.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
And Paul's a pro, like if they did go to
those changes, he would understand. Like he didn't do enough today,
I think, you know, warned himself, a guarantee himself, I
should say another start, and that just happened. When you
are in the end of your season, possibly you need
to be desperate and that's the kind of moves that well,
we might end up seeing it next next game from
Bran Spencer, Well.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Next game is going to be quite something. Let's talk
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Speaker 4 (17:48):
Wrapping things up on the postgame show following a Sounder's
loss in Game one, Round one of this best of
three first round of the MLS Cup playoffs. From here
on out, it's single elimination with this first round is
a best of three, and Minnesota take Game one in
penalties three to two after a zero zero ninety minutes
Jackson Feltz chance for i anders Hurst As we wrap

(18:11):
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Game two Seattle Minnesota. Game two, it is a must
win or the season is over for Seattle. It will
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Speaker 3 (18:56):
Boys, this is gonna be ugly.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
This is going to be a raining in Seattle, and
this is going to be a Minnesota team that's going
to park the bus about I think as much as
a we as soccer fans and chance you've been watching
for a long time, playing for a long time, I
think we're about to see a team park the bus
like we've never seen a team park the bus before.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Absolutely, you could see Saint Claire walking off the field
right there, chirping at one of his players and talking
to him. He is more than confident right now, he's
cocky and they will play for penalty kicks like nobody's business,
and because he feels like he can, you know, do anything,
even though he only saved one, but he feels great
about it, and goalkeepers do. But we have a huge,

(19:36):
big history of big games and doing well at home,
so we can lean on that we've done great in
big games. And at the end of the day, the
reality is if you can't win under pressure, you can't
win MLS Cup, and Sounders and Schmetz they know that better.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Than anybody in the league.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
The biggest thing for me is going to be a
good start because the longer the game goes on and
it's zero zero, that it's going to become more desperate.
You're going to do things you don't normally do because
you know that if you don't score, it's the end
of your season. But if you get a goal early,
Minnesota is not going to know how to react, right
because they're just going in and try and play, like
you said, for zero zero. So I think if the

(20:12):
Sounders get a good start and if it does end
up kind of goalless late, you have to continue to
trust the process, trust that what you're doing will create
enough chances and you will put one in the back
of the net. You don't need to like I know
we talked about desperation last segment, but in terms of
your play on the field, it shouldn't feel like that.
Trust that you're the better soccer team.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
I totally agree with you.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
And tonight, I mean, in the first five minutes we
could have had one maybe even say so if we
get those the ball bounces a little bit differently all
of a sudden, we're talking totally differently right.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Now, right, and then we're going to Minnesota later that
week and for a game three.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
All of that sounds great. It's just execute.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, And to what you said at the start of
the broadcast, Chance, it's about players individually executing at the
moments they need. And I think you were right what
you just said there too, is that the honest to
God truth and the sad truth is that if you
can't beat Minnesota at home, then you don't deserve to
win MLS Cup. So it starts here, guys. You have

(21:12):
to win this game in order to go on this road,
and this is it. Start fast, hold them down, execute individually.
Don't let it become a rainy night in Seattle where
they park the bus, they put eleven behind the ball
for eighty percent of the game and make it zero
zero to Pens because Minnesota has done that before. They
can do that, and we just got to make sure

(21:33):
that they don't execute, because yeah, that would be a
tough way to go out in the first round.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Is just lost loss and pens. After what happened last.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Year in Houston where it was win winning Pens against Houston,
we don't want to see it the other way on
our turf on next Monday night. Again, that's Monday, lumen Field,
November three. It will be a rainy night. But boy,
we are hopefully going to get another great home moment.
As you mentioned, we have many many homeowns before. Hopefully
we'll get another one.

Speaker 6 (22:03):
Yep, looking forward to it.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
And as the boss just left, she said that I'm
coming back in even if though I got this all wrong,
I get another chance next Monday to do with you
guys making for Chan to.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Get it all right.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
Now, let's go.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
He saved them all for next Monday.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
I guess great.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Go all right?

Speaker 10 (22:19):
Well.

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We thank you all for listening once again. The Sounders
falling in game one in this best of three first
round of the playoffs in penalties.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Game two next Monday night.

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