Sounders<\/a> team desperate to end a losing streak?<\/p>\nWell, instead of a win, the Sounders found another embarrassing way to lose a match. They were outworked by the Union in a 1-0 loss at Subaru Park in Chester, Pa.<\/p>\n
The Sounders are on a five-match losing streak, the longest since Brian Schmetzer was named coach in 2016.<\/p>\n
Sounders keeper Andrew Thomas made an errant decision to leave his line to intercept a through ball that led to the winning goal. Union midfielder Milan Iloski got behind the defense and quickly tapped the ball over the keeper to bounce into the unprotected net in the 31st minute.<\/p>\n
An offside flag late in the second half erased a similar situation for Thomas creating a two-goal lead for Philadelphia (3-10-4).<\/p>\n
Sounders attackers Jes\u00fas Ferreira (60th minute), Hassani Dotson (66th), Paul Rothrock (69th), Peter Kingston (75th) and Albert Rusn\u00e1k (84th) missed chances at an equalizer.<\/p>\n
There were four changes in the starting lineup. The shuffling was due to a mix of injuries, short turnaround from Wednesday\u2019s loss, and center back Jackson Ragen serving a suspension for being sent off in that match against Austin.<\/p>\n
Schmetzer had a new center back pairing with Stuart Hawkins and Antino Lopez to account for Ragen\u2019s absence. Normally that would offer some grace.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s unlikely considering the type of errors and effort the Sounders (7-6-3) have shown at times during the skid. On Saturday, they were outdueled 60-50 and had one shot on target.<\/p>\n
The Sounders will have a week of training before a rematch against Portland on Aug. 1 at Providence Park.<\/p>\n
This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s road match against Philadelphia was expected to be an unintended gift. The Union entered the weekend last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,107716,726],"class_list":["post-252150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sounders","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}