Who: Seattle Sounders v. Houston Dynamo When: Saturday, May 11 @ 9:00 pm CDT Where: CenturyLink Field; Seattle, WA Records: Seattle Sounders (5-1-4), 4th place WEST Houston Dynamo (6-1-1), 3rd place WEST TV: KUBE-57 Radio: HoustonDynamo.com/radio / 1010 AM Univision Radio (spanish) This is the 9th league game for Houston and the 11th for Seattle in the 2019 MLS regular season. Last year Houston lost both games against the Sounders in October: 4-1 in Seattle and 2-3 at home. The Dynamo have never won in Seattle in 12 tries overall. The teams will play again this year in Houston on July 27. Seattle is 1-1-3 in their last five games scoring 8 goals and allowing 10. Their most recent game was a road draw, 1-1, against Minnesota on May 4. The Sounders are 4-0-2 in home games so far this year. After the Dynamo game they next host Orlando on Wednesday, May 15, and then travel to Philadelphia on Saturday, May 18. The Dynamo are 4-1-0 in their last five MLS games scoring 11 goals and allowing 5. Houston is 1-1-0 in league road games this year. The Dynamo next return home to host Portland on Wednesday, May 15, and DC United on Saturday, May 18.
Dynamo @ Seattle, all-time: 07/11/09 SEA 2-1 HOU 07/21/09 SEA 2–1 (a.e.t.) HOU, U.S. Open Cup 10/29/09 SEA 0-0 HOU, playoffs 08/08/10 SEA 2-0 HOU 03/25/11 SEA 1-1 HOU 03/23/12 SEA 2-0 HOU 08/10/14 SEA 2-0 HOU 04/04/15 SEA 1-0 HOU 10/12/16 SEA 0-0 HOU 06/04/17 SEA 1-0 HOU 11/30/17 SEA 3-0 HOU, playoffs 10/08/18 SEA 4-1 HOU That is 0-9-3 overall with 4 goals scored and 20 allowed.
The weather forecast for Seattle on Saturday night. At 7 pm PDT: 76F 37% humidity wind 6 mph NW Sunny 0% chance of rain Temps will fall to about 70F by the end of the game and the humidity will rise slightly. Local sunset is at 8:35 pm.
This feels like one of those games you should bet against yourself but know, due to form and just being MLS, that if you do the Dynamo will actually win and all that money is gone.
Match preview: https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...seattle-sounders-fc-vs-houston-dynamo/preview Not much info yet. It should get updated.
Late April and early May is the one little window of Seattle climate culture where the Sun is actually out and shinning, terrific 60-70 degree daytime temps and late sun sets with cool nights. I was just up there last week on company business . Missed this fixture by a week would you believe it! Their squad is looking solid again here in 2019, but so are we! Should be a very entertaining match up. Still hate the rug surface though. DALE DYNAMO n FOREVER ORANGE!
Match preview: https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/m...seattle-sounders-fc-vs-houston-dynamo/preview SEATTLE Injury Report: OUT: Gustav Svensson (M) - left hamstring strain QUESTIONABLE: Nouhou (D) - left ankle sprain Suspended: None Suspended after next caution: Nicolas Lodeiro (M) International duty: Danny Leyva (M), Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez (F) HOUSTON Injury Report: OUT: Eric Bird (M) - left ankle injury OUT: DaMarcus Beasley (D) - left knee surgery OUT: Ronaldo Peña (F) - left knee injury OUT: Marlon Hairston (M) - right hip injury Suspended: None Suspended after next caution:None International duty: None OFFICIALS Referee: Alex Chilowicz Assistant Referees: Eduardo Mariscal, Chris Elliott 4th Official: Elvis Osmanovic VAR: Alejandro Mariscal
Seattle 1 HOUSTON 0 5 ‘ Roldan goal Pathetic defense by our #10 who could have contested the shot but chose to shy away Expensive pony to have so this is what happens
The team put in a hell of an effort and really wanted to get something out of this game. I think it was a good chance to do so tonight with Chad’s a Marshall out but the team really struggled with the surface. A lot of bad touches and errant passes and key missed chances within free looks on goaonly to hit a bad shot. I don’t know what the solution is to get a result in Seattle - maybe stay there for a week to practice on the surface? Cuz I know they can technically play better. I really felt that we had as good a team as a Seattle and should have gotten a point. Hope all this effort doesn’t negatively affect the outcome against Portland on Wednesday. But I like the attitude that we are going to try and get some kind of result in the road.
The marking and keeping on the goal were shoddy. But what cost them at least a point was crap finishing. Put the ball on cage.
Covering that shot is hard, because you go in he is falling to give a foul on the edge of the box. Him latching on to that has a low probability of going in.... it did and was unstoppable. It's either goal of the year candidate or save of the year candidate...kuddos to him because it was a hell of a shot. They braced for the flood on goal after the 75th minute and couldn't do anything with it. This is our second loss of the season... not going to harp on it to much. Would like to know what happened to Struna. on to the next game. Portland has a new striker that could really help them... we need to stand on their throats early.
You can expect to win when you don't score. This match was frustrating to watch! It is our second loss of the year. Perspective. Let's see what Wilmer runs out on Wednesday. Back to back matches with dem Pac NW boys, let's beat one of them!
Just want to chime and say it was nice having Bobby Boswell as a commentator again. Always enjoy listening to him and wish he had a more regular role.
Having a look at that goal again - it wasn’t just Martinez not being brave but Manotas as well. He was directly in front of Roldan and turned away quite badly. Bottom line you have to score at least one goal with this defense. Other you lose all 3 points to your opponent.
All the struggling ‘Superclub’ teams are now splashing cash for DP’s like Portland and I am sure LAG will now because Ibrahimovic gotta be squawking with several losses in a row at home.
7W – T 3E – W 8W – W 12W – W 9W – W 2W – L 7E – W 5W – W 3W – L Which is a pattern of winning against 5th and down in the West and losing to the top 3 West teams. Mind you, the losses are both away and for a change we are keeping road losses close, ie, are competitive every night. I bring this up because I feel some complacency settling in from results so far when what I see is probably settling into the 4th western team and 7th overall. Whenever the strength of schedule bunch here kicks in they will probably tell you the same. Improved team but also a friendly schedule so far.
They braced for the late rush by us, is code for we started the wrong left wing. I barely remember Memo played. Not true of Quioto. But maybe the coach agrees with me and that was more of a B team with 3 games in a week. I was impressed with their Australian who was giving Elis fits. Re Martinez and others I was thinking back to the schooling of select of trying to commit opposing players with the timing and placement of passes. You don't just make passes, you try and use them to try and put defenders wrong side of the ball. We would have advantageous rushes downfield and make a short pass that was still in front of the next defender, ie, hadn't committed any of their defenders negatively. Or (at least early) when we didn't commit defenders we often just squirted it over a line. We don't take enough advantage of advantageous numbers situations to commit defenders. I may be making no sense but the basic idea is that when I have a 2 on 1, make the defender commit to me and play the pass behind them. That defender is now chasing. If I play the ball in front of the defender early, he doesn't have to commit and can basically guard two people. If I kick the ball over the endline I overcooked it to the other end of the spectrum. We do some through balling but we don't 2-v-1 or wall ball enough.