MATCH NOTES
- Seattle Sounders FC (14-13-4, 46 points) remains in fourth place in the Western Conference table with three games remaining in the 2015 MLS regular season. The Rave Green are now unbeaten in five-straight league matches and six matches across all competitions.
- Seattle is 7-2-3 all-time against Sporting, including a 4-1-1 record in Kansas City. All 12 regular season meetings between Sporting and Seattle have been decided by one goal or fewer.
- Obafemi Martins has seven goals in seven games since returning from injury on August 16. After today's result, the club is 28-1-2 all-time when Martins scores. Martins has tied the club record with a goal in five consecutive league matches, joining Fredy Montero's scoring stretch from June 13-July 11, 2009.
- In 2015, Sounders FC has posted a 13-2-1 mark when scoring first and an 11-0-1 record when leading at halftime.
- After six saves in today's match, Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei ranks second in MLS with 106 saves.
POST-MATCH QUOTES
Sigi Schmid:
“It’s just a little frustrating. But when a team plays a lot of reserve players, those guys are going to put forth their best effort. They want to play. You saw a lot of them collapse on the field after the game because they left everything on the field. You can never put too much stock into that. We’ve gotten good results with a reserve team in the past. It was a situation where we weren’t as good as we needed to be in the second half. But we had two great chances with [Clint] Dempsey in front of goal. If he scores one of those two, then the game is over.”
“It’s a tough week for us because with the game we had midweek we had one training session. Our goalkeepers were beat up and our reserve team was playing. So we had to have a training session without goalkeepers and it’s not always the best session, our team doesn’t like that. Then we had a travel day where we couldn’t train. It got us out of rhythm a little bit this week. I’m not too concerned and I’m not too worried. I think our rhythm at training was not very good this week because of the circumstances of the games and the travel.”
Stefan Frei:
“It’s still a result on the road but I think we’re all a bit disappointed because we put in a really good first half and had our chances in the second half to put them away. Then I think the heat and the humidity kind of zapped our energy level a bit and made it difficult and then obviously they came back. It was a good effort, a better effort for us so I think that’s why we are a bit disappointed to leave with just one point. But it keeps the train rolling and the points coming in so we need to focus on the next one.”
“I think if you go back two or three months and said: you’re going to Kansas in a tough environment and you’re going to get a point, we would have probably said yes, we’ll take it. It keeps the train rolling for us, it keeps the points rolling in and that’s important. We’re going to go back home now and make sure we take three points there.”
