AUSTIN, TEXAS \u2013 Sounders FC (7-5-3, 24 points) fell 3-1 to Austin FC (4-7-5, 17 points) on Wednesday evening at Q2 Stadium. Paul Rothrock\u2019s team-leading fifth goal in league play this year was not enough as the Texas club was able to score a trio of goals to earn the home win. Brian Schmetzer\u2019s side continues its two-match road trip on Saturday, July 25 with a trip to face the Philadelphia Union at Subaru Park (4:30 p.m. PT \/ Apple TV, iHeartMedia Seattle, El Rey 1360 AM).<\/p>\n
Seattle sits in sixth place in the Western Conference with 24 points (7-5-3).<\/p>\n
This marked the 11th\u00a0regular-season matchup between Seattle and Austin, with the Rave Green leading the series 5-3-3.<\/p>\n
Paul Rothrock scored his team-leading seventh goal in all competitions in the 26th\u00a0minute. The Seattle native tallied five goals and nine assists last season.<\/p>\n
Veteran defender Nouhou made his 300th\u00a0all-competitions appearance tonight, joining Stefan Frei (426), Cristian Roldan (408) and Osvaldo Alonso (339) as the only players to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n
Stuart Hawkins recorded his first start for Seattle since signing with the club as a 16-year-old in 2023 as a Homegrown Player.<\/p>\n
Brian Schmetzer made three changes to the lineup from last week\u2019s match against Portland with Peter Kingston, Hawkins and Danny Musovski replacing Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, Antino Lopez and Jordan Morris.<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s match was the first contest between Seattle and Austin this year. The two sides will meet again on August 19 at Lumen Field.<\/p>\n
Seattle stays on the road to take on the Philadelphia Union on Saturday, July 25 at Subaru Park (4:30 p.m. PT \/ Apple TV, 950 KJR AM, El Rey 1360 AM).<\/p>\n
Seattle Sounders FC 1 \u2013 Austin FC 3<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Ricardo Montero<\/p>\n
Assistants:\u00a0Stefan Tanaka-Freundt, Brian Dunn<\/p>\n
Fourth Official:\u00a0Elton Garcia<\/p>\n
Weather:\u00a099 degrees and partly cloudy<\/p>\n
ATX \u2013\u00a0Ilie S\u00e1nchez (Besard Sabovic) 12\u2019<\/p>\n
SEA \u2013\u00a0Paul Rothrock 26′<\/p>\n
ATX \u2013\u00a0Myrto Uzuni\u00a0(Ervin Torres, Ilie S\u00e1nchez) 86′<\/p>\n
ATX \u2013\u00a0Christian Ramirez (Ervin Torres, Myrto Uzuni) 90+1′<\/p>\n
SEA \u2013\u00a0Jackson Ragen (caution) 59\u2019<\/p>\n
ATX \u2013\u00a0Besard Sabovic (caution) 60\u2019<\/p>\n
ATX\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Myrto Uzuni (caution) 87′)<\/p>\n
SEA \u2013\u00a0Jackson Ragen (ejection) 90+4\u2019<\/p>\n
Seattle Sounders FC\u00a0\u2013 Andrew Thomas; Peter Kingston (Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, 66\u2019), Jackson Ragen, Stuart Hawkins, Nouhou \u2013 Captain (Sebastian Gomez, 88\u2019); Hassani Dotson, Snyder Brunell (Paul Arriola, 67\u2019); Jes\u00fas Ferreira, Albert Rusn\u00e1k, Paul Rothrock; Danny Musovski (Osaze De Rosario, 62\u2019)<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used:\u00a0Stefan Frei, Max Anchor, Yeimar G\u00f3mez Andrade, Gallatin Sandnes*, Antino Lopez<\/p>\n
*Tacoma Defiance player available via Short-Term Agreement<\/p>\n
Austin FC\u00a0\u2013 Brad Stuver; Guilherme Biro, Brendan Hines-Ike (Mateja Djordjevi\u0107, 63\u2019), Oleksandr Svatok, Jon Gallagher; Joseph Rosales (Przemys\u0142aw P\u0142acheta, 63\u2019), Ilie S\u00e1nchez, Besard Sabovic (Owen Wolff, 62\u2019), Facundo Torres (Ervin Torres, 84\u2019); Brandon Vazquez (Christian Ramirez, 83\u2019), Myrto Uzuni<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used:\u00a0Damian Las, \u017dan Kolmani\u010d, Jayden Nelson, Nico Dubersarsky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, TEXAS \u2013 Sounders FC (7-5-3, 24 points) fell 3-1 to Austin FC (4-7-5, 17 points) on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13723,99352,135330,132,134,133,223,3616,90925],"class_list":["post-383505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-13723","tag-app-news","tag-atxvssea-07-22-2026","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-news","tag-press-release","tag-seattle-sounders-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}