Sounders vs. Minnesota United: Highlights, stats, quotes

For the first time in their history, the Seattle Sounders failed to beat Minnesota United at home, falling 3-2 on Sunday. The Sounders got a goal from Kalani Kossa-Rienzi and an own-goal forced by Georgi Minoungou, but gave up three goals in a seven-minute span and couldn’t fully recover.

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MATCH SUMMARY

Seattle Sounders FC 2 – Minnesota United FC 3

Sunday, June 1, 2025 

Venue: Lumen Field

Referee: Lukasz Szpala

Assistants: Cory Richardson, Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho

Fourth Official: Malik Badawi

VAR: Daniel Radford

Attendance: 31,491

Weather: 67 degrees and sunny

SCORING SUMMARY

MIN – Tani Oluwaseyi (Robin Lod) 51’

MIN – Robin Lod (penalty) 54’

SEA – Kalani Kossa-Rienzi (Pedro de la Vega, Obed Vargas) 55’

MIN – Tani Oluwaseyi 58’

SEA – Own Goal (Nicolás Romero) 83’

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY

MIN – Julian Gressel (caution) 19’

MIN – Joaquín Pereyra (caution) 40’

MIN – Anthony Markanich (caution) 69’

SEA – Danny Musovski (caution) 90’+1’

MIN – Robin Lod (caution) 90’+6’

LINEUPS & STATS

Seattle Sounders FC – Stefan Frei – Captain; Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, Jackson Ragen (Stuart Hawkins 59’), Jonathan Bell, Nouhou (Reed Baker-Whiting 75’); Obed Vargas (Osaze De Rosario 80’), Cristian Roldan; Pedro de la Vega (Georgi Minoungou 60’), Albert Rusnák, Paul Rothrock (Ryan Kent 59’); Danny Musovski

Substitutes not used: Andrew Thomas, Alex Roldan, Danny Leyva, João Paulo 

Total shots: 10

Shots on goal: 2

Fouls: 13

Offside: 1

Corner-Kicks: 9

Saves: 3

Minnesota United FC – Dayne St. Clair; Anthony Markanich (Kelvin Yeboah 70’), Nicolás Romero, Michael Boxall, Carlos Harvey, Julian Gressel (Bongokuhle Hlongwane HT); Robin Lod, Wil Trapp, Owen Gene (Joseph Rosales 69’), Joaquín Pereyra (Morris Duggan 89’); Tani Oluwaseyi 

Substitutes not used: D.J. Taylor, Alec Smir, Alisa Randell, Jefferson Diaz, Hoyeon Jung

Total shots: 13

Shots on goal: 6

Fouls: 15

Offside: 0

Corner-kicks: 0

Saves: 0

Quotes

SOUNDERS FC HEAD COACH BRIAN SCHMETZER

On today’s loss against Minnesota United FC:

“Just became hard to beat. They stack at three good big center backs, two wing backs, a line of four. There's just not a lot of space to plan. Sometimes [we] like to play through the middle. They were preventing that. We had to go side to side a little bit more, try and create those overloads. I think they did a good job, but that's true to who they are. I think for us, again, I think our guys were, again, it's hard to say, again, a lack of patience, but we needed to be more dramatic at some moments when we had the opportunity, and then a little more patience, like towards the end of the game, where we were, you know, still in the game at 2-1, and still in the game at 3-2 but we were kind of rushed in some of those moments.”