Wasatch Soccer Sentinel
Reviving an old tradition, this week, Dave Clark of Sounder at Heart answered my questions about how Seattle Sounders are faring. We touch on Albert Rusnak, Pedro de la Vega, Sounders' form, and much more ahead of tonight's match.
1 - Early season MLS is weird. How worried are you feeling about the Sounders' form? Does finishing second in the Western Conference last year buy some patience for the coaching staff?
If 2022's awful regular season hadn't happened, maybe. But the Seattle Sounders are in a three-year stretch of offensive struggle that is punctuated with a few stretches that included positive results with poor performance. Adding on more poor performances isn't going to be acceptable too long. On a Nos Audietis a couple weeks ago Jeremiah and Aaron seemed to thing the end of May, the halfway point, would be a solid time for a change if one is going to happen.
Brian Schmetzer & Staff don't have to turn the season around to be safe at that point. They merely need to be better. Over the past seven games they have a 1.57 ppm. That's not Shield contention, but it's basically last year's second place in the conference and typically puts a team hosting home games in the playoffs. If they can maintain this pace for the month, win another Open Cup game and get healthier :fingers-crossed: they'll be in a position to charge forth in the second half for a noisy playoff run -- or the coaches will watch from somewhere not on the sidelines.
