The MLS Supporters Shield will be decided today in Seattle when the Sounders take on the Los Angeles Galaxy (2:30pm NBC).
The top two teams in the league for much of the season, the Sounders and Galaxy face off today with the winner securing the top seed in the MLS playoffs, as well as the Supporters Shield.
The Sounders need just a draw today to secure that top spot, and will be heavily favored against a Galaxy side playing without star forward Robbie Keane (injured) and U.S. Men’s National Team central defender Omar Gonzalez (suspended).
SBI will be providing live commentary on today’s action so please feel free to follow along here. As always, you are welcome to share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Our SBI Live Commentary is after the jump):
Galaxy with spacing all over the field. 20-40 yard passing and many turnovers. Crappy soccer by both teams, but mostly Galaxy. Galaxy played more compact in many other games throughout the regular season and now they go back to a retarded game plan for the Supporters Shield. Just stupid. MLS is hard to watch after watching Serie A, Bundesliga, and even the best British teams that employ the most foreigners. When will MLS and the USMNT get it right because all they are doing is WRONG!
What a bunch of whiners in these comments. I am not a Seattle fan but anyone who would say something like “Seattle is bad for MLS” needs their head examined. 60k+ standing and singing the whole game in the pouring rain. I guess MLS doesn’t need that? Whining because of the turf. Whining because this wasn’t a free flowing spectacle but how many title deciding games are? Now I understand the guy whose name is “quit whining about soccer.” He’s not on here making comments today because he’s probably out celebrating his team’s win so I say, in his stead, to stop whining.
Congrats to Seattle and their supporters and good luck in the playoffs.
haha I had already taken it back. I’ve just seen both sides play much better then that. Perhaps its silly to think there’s anything that will convert some people anyway. Also it’s not like there aren’t ugly matches in the Premier league every week. No doubt, credit to Seattle for the atmosphere.
You’re a good sport, Jack.
Thanks for filing in.
Go Sounders !
+1 As an LAG fan, I will be first in line to say congrats to Seattle on the plate, and also for being the best advertisement the league has to offer as an example of what the league can become. Well said slowleft.
Ref Gieger lets another match get out of hand, a la RSL v timbers last week. Still jet lagged from World Cup?
I think it’s hard for the refs during the match. You don’t want to decide a match in that kind of situation. Perhaps the league needs to step in with fines or suspensions.
Seattle couldn’t possess the ball so they had to foul early and often. That isn’t gonna work in the payoffs, Sigi.
Yellow Cards:
LA 3, SS 3
Fouls:
LA 21, SS 19
Sure it will, because the league will let it happen, just like geiger did today.
While I will say the Galaxy did not do enough to deserve the required win on the day, I will take the time for a little bit of bitterness, and say that I was a bit enraged at the quick restart Geiger allowed (which seemed inconsistent with how he was calling the game).
Seemed like a was a direct product of the sequence 10 mins earlier in which Oba was fouled in his own end and Geiger played on. Geiger went out of his way to apologize to Oba for it after (as though a guy with Oba’s resume doesn’t understand the advantage rule) and was thereafter willing to allow it.
So it goes. Congrats to Seattle. Seeya inna few weeks.
Who’s your Pappa??!!!
lmao
Seattle is nothing but a bunch of punks. Dirty dirty team that is being completely out played so their resorting to this garbage
Seriously they are bad for the league. Hard to watch ugly play.
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haha alright, they clearly aren’t bad for the league but that match was. As a kind of show case on NBC, that match won’t be converting anyone. The Galaxy weren’t great either but Seattle made zero effort to connect passes and move forward nearly the entire match.
I don’t think you give credit to LA. They played extremely well in the midfield, making it difficult for Seattle to move the ball forward and release Martins/Dempsey/Neagle. Seattle tried plenty, just couldn’t get through. LA’s weakened back line was well protected.
“Zero effort” looks like 10 men behind the ball. That’s not at all what Seattle did.
LA played well, but Seattle’s defense was “on” today—I’m talking particularly about their usual liabilities in Scott, Leo Gonzalez, and especially Frei. All three played tough and smart; nothing LA could do.
Lots of drama, no football. I’m sure we’ll see a red card eventually, not so sure about four pases in a row.
True… not the best spectacle. Schmidt’s “It’s not in this team’s nature to play for a draw” quote is looking pretty confusing.
“It’s not in this team’s nature to play for a draw [during the last 10 minutes of a match].”
This game is hard to watch after seeing RM – Barcelona
This game is hard to watch on the turf!! The ball never stops bouncing!!
agreed
Your comment is hard to read after reading Mark Twain. What’s your point?
That is one of the best lines I’ve ever read on any comments page. Thank you.
I was just making a comment.
somebody’s getting a red card in this match, it is rough. hopefully someone gets a goal, too………
I still struggle to believe how much mileage the Galaxy have given to these baffling third jerseys, which look like they were largely manufactured from odd-lot pieces of El Tri kits from past 3 years.. I thought it was a joke when they won the “contest”, and I imagined they’d probably get a run-out or two and then be returned to the Salvation Army. I guess Another Bad Creation might be interested in them once they are mercifully retired.
That’s just their dazzle camouflage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zty8tfr
Here they can be seen in practice trying out an earlier version of the kit.
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+1 Thanks King…. I now know how it feels to burst into laughter & vomit at the same time. One more item off the bucket list.