Sounders Are 10th In The West, And This Is The Wild Scoreboard Seattle Needs Tonight

The Sounders are currently sitting in 10th place in the Western Conference, battling it out, but here’s the kicker: for the first time in what feels like an eternity, they are more likely to make the playoffs than miss them entirely. Tonight, 8th place is actually up for grabs, and if the boys can keep up that incredible hustle they have shown since signing Deki, we could seriously see Schmetzer’s side jump into striking distance of 7th.

This Ain’t Over Yet: Climbing That Mountain

Let’s be real, this season started hot and then totally fizzled out. It’s left us with low hopes for a home playoff game, and let’s be honest, a meaningful run that could truly rescue how we feel about this whole rollercoaster of a season seemed like a total pipe dream. But hold up, there’s still a shot to break into the top four in the West! If things can go as right as the summer went wrong, we’re talking about meaningful soccer lasting into meteorological winter. It’s a huge mountain, one the organization made even bigger by digging a ditch during the climb, but there’s a reason to hope. Mostly, it’s because the league’s middle is softer than Thor on a couch mourning the disasters he brought upon his people. When a team doesn’t control its destiny, like we are right now, every single scoreboard, every single result outside our own match, absolutely matters. The Sounders simply need to ensure they make this run-in a total fun-in, giving us something real to cheer for.

Here’s What We’re Rooting For Across the League

We need a specific stack of results to push us up. First, for our Eastern Conference friends, Nashville should absolutely win everything. When playoff teams face each other back East, we want those matches to be draws. And if a bad Eastern team plays a playoff team, you better believe we want that bad team to win. Now, the West, this is where it gets spicy for us. We need these specific matches to end in draws: Austin v. San Diego, Dallas v. LAFC, Galaxy v. Colorado, and San Jose v. Portland. Those last two, plus our own match tonight, are absolutely critical. They’re gonna go a long way in defining which Western Conference teams get to play in the “second season,” and we need to be one of them. Beyond the draws, we need some upsets, big time: Sporting KC needs a massive upset win over Houston, and New England needs to beat Real Salt Lake. Seriously, we should hope every Eastern side beats a Western team right now. If all this happens, combined with our Sounders behaving like they have recently, it would push us to 8th and within striking distance of 7th. It would even bump our Shield standing from 20th to 15th, getting us close to 12th!

Tonight’s Battle and The Vibe Shift

Don’t forget, tonight is huge: we’re hosting Minnesota United at 5:30 pm PT on Apple TV. And guess what? Joaquín Pereyra, their creative hub, is OUT! That’s a huge break for us. Over the past six matches, we’ve had the 6th best record in the West, powered by a defense that’s been number 4 during that stretch. We just had a vibes-shifting victory, ending a tough streak with a win. Andrew Thomas came up big when we needed him most. There’s a real surge of belief building up in the Emerald City again, a feeling we haven’t had in a while. Let’s keep that fire burning bright tonight, intensely watch that scoreboard, and cheer our boys with everything we’ve got to push them right into the thick of this playoff fight.

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Originally reported by Sounder at Heart.