Sounders FC playoffs

This Sunday, October 31, the MLS Cup Western Conference Semifinals kickoff at Qwest Field as the Seattle Sounders FC will be taking on the Los Angeles Galaxy.

It's been a crazy second MLS season for the Sounders FC. They started out very slow and fell to the cellar of the West. But a late season burst set the team on fire. Winning 7 straight MLS games as well as the U.S. Open Cup.

The Galaxy beat the Sounders 4-0 and 3-1 earlier this season. But that was before the team gelled. It's anyones match! Scarves up!

Here's the road to the playoffs:

Road to the Playoffs from Seattle Sounders FC on Vimeo.

Sounders FC taking on the city of Angels

No not Tri Cities, come on, that's the city of people who can only cut their hair into a mullet. Get it right.

The Sounders FC play an early game today, noon start time, against the L.A. Galaxy, which wont have star David Beckham at their disposal because he's playing for another club in Italy. Can you imagine if the NFL had stars that would leave their team midseason and play in Europe? Wow.

Since it is a home match, it's sure to be a tough environment for the Galaxy who only have one win on the season this year. One particularly interesting note about Qwest Field is that they might be removing the tarps on the upper part of the lower bowl of the stadium to allow for more room of "partial season ticket holders."

Great move, but let's hope they don't open to many seats so the stadium bowl looks 3/4 full. There's a theory behind this that the more the stadium "looks" sold out (even though the upper deck is tarped off), the more people will want tickets because they think they have to get them in advance and when you do that you're more likely to go to the game than walk-up to the ticket window because you have less time to think against it. The Portland Trailblazers used this to their advantage in their arena before they built the Rose Garden, so lets hope the Sounders FC keep it up as well.

So get your scarves ready, it's game time!

Sounders FC fight to a tie

Brandon had joked earlier that all that the Chicago Fire could do is tie. Well folks, they did it again.

After the match, the score stood 1-1 in a tie.

1-1 you say? As in Kasey Keller gave up a goal? WHAT!?!?!?!

Yes, I am sorry to say that after 457 minutes of play to start the season, Seattle's all-star goalie was finally scored upon.

But the team fought well, despite loosing team star Fredy Montero, who got a red card in the 48th minute. Montero went up for a header against Fire player Gonzalo Segrares, and on the way up Montero elbowed Segrares. The red card was given and Motnero was forced to leave the game.

In the 60th minute, Marco Pappa put the ball past Keller and with it, the Fire went up 1-0.

But just 6 minutes later the Sounders FC answered back with a goal of their own. Freddie Ljungberg sent a corner kick sailing to the far side of the goal. Tyrone Marshall was waiting and simply tapped the ball in for the score.

The Fire finished the game with the shot advantage at 15-4. But despite this, were forced to their fourth straight tie.

The tie left Seattle at 4-2-1 with 13 points. They remain in 2nd place in the West behind Chivas USA who are 5-1-1 with 16 points.

The Sounders FC come home to the Xbox Pitch at Qwest Field next week. They'll take on the LA Galaxy at 12:00 PM on Saturday. The Galaxy currently sit in 7th place in the West at 0-1-4 with four points. They certainly won't be a pushover team, as they have already fought the Chivas USA to a 0-0 tie earlier this season.