Seattle Sounders Reserves v Vancouver Whitecaps Reserves - Gamethread

Gold Cup on TV
Professionals jamming out stories (Sigi, OBW)

Sound Wave is at the game, first time at home for Reserves.
Stands have plenty of space, and are covered.
At least one Nos Audietis scarf out there.
ECS is back in their USL home out towards the train tracks

Plenty of good seats still although it’s filling up. Parking’s a giant pain since there’s tons of youth teams practicing on adjacent fields.

Trimmed beard, angular hair cut
White tape at his lower calves

Which is important step for him to take. He’s moving more centrally too.

Michael Seamon with a long diagonal from the center line feeds Cillian at the left elbow. Cillian’s cross too hard for the running Estrada at the far post.

And Scott can only get a boot on it.

Not winning balls yet, but causing trouble.

knocking it to Seamon who moved to a right position.

Carrasco wins a ball at center
Montano picks up the pass at the right elbow slotting a low cross

And the Irish Trialist scores

and Seamon at Right Mid and it’s been true for 6 minutes now?

Had his back to goal (out at centerline) but with solid control of the ball, until he was just pulled off of it.

low and not with much power through the crowd

It is clearly frustrating him. His looks at the ref for help are resulting in nothing.

Sounders continue to provide defensive pressure at all parts of the pitch.

as I know Teibert just by his poise on the ball. ‘Caps don’t have names on shirts.

Montano to take. Levesque’s goes about 40 feet in the air.

He then heads it agains to score.

Seattle generally has run of play with the ’Caps only getting two shots on goal (iirc).

Cillian has been solid, with a goal. The physical play frustrates him though.
Levesque has the other goal.

there’s an 8 year old in front of the box yelling at her parents “Why didn’t he pass?”

Cillian Sheridan just caught Greg Janicki on a very long clearance. Janicki won the ball, but it should have been easy.

at the worst result happens for them as Salgado gets studs to the top of his foot while he shot.

Huge noise from the crowd.

But carrasco and scott have impressed the most

If I had to pick on someone it would be seamon

Myron Samuel should play the 2nd half. Big Cillian will have limited minutes tonight.

Cillian Out
Myron In

-Sheridan has looked good especially in the first 30. His workrate tailed off a bit late in the half. Maybe Janiki is getting to him?
- Tetteh looks great. Quick getting forward in the attack and back for defense.
- Montano clearly has the skills to be really good. Makes some dumb mistakes though like a bad packpass that almost lead to a scoring opportunity.
- Noonan’s looked good as have Seamon.
- Carrasco is solid as ever.

Estrada out right.
Seamon to the attacking mid

Is Montano still at LM/LW?

Harmse out
Marfott out

Vagenas In
some other guy in

Made solid torso to torso contact, but he’s tiny compared to the keeper

Leads to a turnover and ’Caps attack.
Seattle gets the ball back

Samuel chases down an over the top ball and gets a left footed chip/volley on it, but off target. Pressure was decent and even getting the shot off was impressive.

Crowd wants a penalty on heavy contact on Montano in the box. But it looked fair, chest to chest stuff.

I think he’s trying to hustle his way into Sigi’s 18. Very effective.

Ball eventually falls to Noonan who puts a shot directly at the keeper.

Seattle finally breaks it.

Aaron Kovar On

Clark On

Scott had passed it across the back and Terry’s first touch wasn’t enough to control the ball.

with Montano and Samuel up top

Recent possession slightly in Seattle’s favor, but starting to shift.
Montano takes a one on one with Nolly who deflects it.

Montano is on the end of the pass at the far post and puts a shallow angle shot into Nolly

Okoli IN

Yedlin IN

Seattle Sounders Reserves now 5-0-0 with a +7

Sheridan had some good hold-up play with his feet but was a little early jumping while trying to win headers for some reason. I imagine he’s usually better in the air. He pressured well on defense and had some good one-touch passes. He created a couple dangerous situations and was on the end of one for a good goal.

Samuel had great runs as a striker, but his passing was inaccurate much of the time. He’s quick for sure, though. He had a couple runs in behind the defense that looked like he had to be offside but wasn’t.

I’m amateur at best seeing this stuff, so take it with a grain of salt.

Funny that Dizzo and I had basically opposite impressions of Seamon. I thought he single-handedly killed a huge number of offensive chances with bad passes. Estrada had the same work rate but was much better handling the ball and essentially took over the job of playmaking from the middle even though he was on the wing.

I was too late to see the best part of the Sheridan show (thanks SUV driver who stalled in the middle of the 520 bridge).

I thought Scott was the player of the match. He totally controlled Tan and Salgado on the backline. He won every header he was involved in and cut out a bunch of passes. Leo also looked good at center back. You can imagine that could be a future for him, since his biggest issues at fullback are his pace at getting back and his distribution, neither of which are as big a deal at centerback. Carrasco also pretty much shut down the center of the pitch as a defensive mid.

Boss was shaky. Being a keeper means being mistake-free, and he definitely wasn’t that. He did have a tremendous diving punch-save on a header in the second half, though.

Montano and Tetteh both looked good.

Academy kids didn’t have long in the game, but Kovar busted his ass to get back from an attack to help cut off a counter. Always like to see that.