So last yesterday I was at school and all I could think about was the Sounders game. After a long wait I sat on my couch to watch what would be one of the best games in Confacaf champions league history. Not because of a MLS squad beating a Mexican squad, but more so to the point that the Sounders played 45 minutes of good football while Tigres played 135 solid minutes of dominating football and only managed 2 goals. While Seattle up a man for 45 minutes they stil managed to net 3 goals.
Sitting and watching that game was frustrating. Eddie johnson recieved a yellow card in the 15th minute. I was thinking, Oh shoot another game where the officiating was going to side with the Mexican side. Then in the 23rd minute Yedlin got shoved aside and my heart sank as the ball glided across the field and onto the foot of Elias Hernández and into the back of the net.
The game quickly started to even out and Tigres recieved two yellows one of which went to Manuel Viniegra. The officiating began to even out and more towards the Sounders way. In the 45th minute after a foul, Manuel Viniegra kicked the ball away from Sounder Osvaldo Alonso who would later pick up a yellow. The referee saw it all happen and gave Viniegra his second yellow and got the red card. This put Seattle up a man.
Once the second half started it was a new game. The Sounders owned possesion and played superb defence. in the 53rd minute the Sounder got a corner, one of there 13. The ball came in low and went out of the box to land at the feet of DeAndre Yedlin, who drilled it into the box took a deflection and into the back of the net. From that moment I knew the Sounders were gonna score again. My only doubt was that's of our defence mostly Leo Gonzalez he wasgettin beat and making tons of mistakes. But I ended up being wrong. I the 60th minute Djimi Traore hit another long distantance goal from 30 yards. It hit the post and hit well inside the line to put the agg. to 2-2. Sounders still need to score to advance.
That goal didn't come till the 75th minute. Zakuani put a pass to Johnson who made it past two defenders and took the goalie one on one and hit an incredible goal from one of the toughest angles to score. The rest of the game was really back and forth. Tigres had its chances but the weather and turf had other ideas.
Now the Sounders have to focus on rivals Portland, and retake the cascadia cup!
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