Sounders Reserves a win away from clinching division
by chrisso on Jul 6, 2011 12:52 PM PDT
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PrintThe Rave Green reserves have methodically won their first seven matches (of ten total) and have almost mathematically reached the West Division title. They have won four of those seven in the friendly confines at Starfire, but not always emphatically. In fact, the Sounders have only twice (in seven) managed to defeat another reserve team by more than a single goal. The names of the two teams the reserves defeated and more stats after the jump.
The Sounders defeated the reserves of the Portland Timbers 2-0 at Jeld-Wen Stadium on May 30 and then beat the Vancouver Whitecaps, at Starfire, 2-0 a week later. The other five reserve games were one goal affairs. All of the results are listed below.
The table for the Western Division Reserves (more updated than the last time I checked the MLS website).
| Club | G | W | L | D | GF | GA | GD | Pts. |
| Seattle Sounders | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 21 |
| San Jose Earthquakes | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Portland Timbers | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 7 |
| Chivas USA | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | -1 | 5 |
| LA Galaxy | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 3 |
| Vancouver Whitecaps | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 1 |
Sounder Goal Scorers:
Neagle: 3
Tetteh: 2
1 goal each: Carrasco, Estrada, Fucito, Jaqua, Levesque, Montano, Noonan, Ochoa, and Sheridan.
Here is the breakdown of the games thus far:
April 3, @ SJ Earthquakes 1-0
Sounders FC - Michael Tetteh 1 (unassisted) 87
May 9, Chivas USA 3-2
Sounders FC - Mike Fucito (Nate Jaqua, David Estrada) 25; Lamar Neagle (PK) 52; Miguel Montano (Pat Noonan) 60.
Chivas USA - Chris Cortez 22; Chris Cortez (Bryan de la Fuente) 69.
May 15, Timbers 3-2
Sounders FC - Lamar Neagle 44; Pat Noonan (Neagle) 57; Michael Tetteh (Roger Levesque) 74.
Timbers - David Horst 68; Bim Ogunyemi 91+.
May 30, @Timbers 2-0
Sounders FC - Carrasco, 77; Estrada (Gonzalez), 89
June 7, Whitecaps 2-0
Sounders FC - Cillian Sheridan (Miguel Montano, Servando Carrasco) 7; Roger Levesque (Zach Scott) 26.
June 13, Galaxy 1-0
Sounders FC – Sammy Ochoa (Erik Friberg) 82.
July 5, @Galaxy 2-1
Sounders FC - Nate Jaqua (Lamar Neagle) 18; Lamar Neagle (PK) 30.
LA Galaxy - Adam Cristman 73.
The remaining schedule
April 10, @Chivas PPD
August 9, @Vancouver Whitecaps
October 11, SJ Earthquakes at Starfire
Nothing has been announced regarding the rescheduling of the postponed game from 4/10 @Chivas USA. I am guessing it will be during the Sounders trip back to LA on October 22nd to play the MLS game.
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Good stuff
Thanks for compiling this.
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Scratch that
This IS what the MLS league standings is going to look like once we sign a good target forward through the transfer window!
I think the record is positive for sure
I enjoy watching the reserves play. The quality is down from the number ones for sure, but there seems to be more hunger from the players who don’t get much chance to show their stuff.
I will say I wish we had an exciting youth striker prospect on the reserve team; someone that can score multiple goals throughout the year. It seems we lack that creativity and nose for the goal, even on the reserve team. All of our forwards who have a goal – only have one. Combine that with the low scoring output of forwards in the first team, and you see a recurring need in the system. Finding talent at forward certainly isn’t easy; I guess I just wish we were better at it.
Too bad you can’t trade quantity for quality, eh?
Fucito had 2 in the USOC game
guarantee he’d have more if the played more reserve games while he was healthy. Wouldn’t be surprised if Jaqua had a few more if he was healthy as well.
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