• Anyone who doubts the attendance numbers in Sean Nelson’s essay this week about the remarkable popularity of the Sounders should turn on the TV (KONG, channel 6): The stadium in Salt Lake City, on a beautiful day, is EMPTY. (Relatively.)
• And Salt Lake scores against us. “That was just a complete lack of concentration by all the Seattle players,” the TV announcer says. Score: 0-1.
We’re lucky to not be down 3-0 at half.
The stadium is only empty by Seattle standards. Looks like a decent crowd to me.
The Sounders continue to show their weakness on set pieces.
Yeah, that’s not an empty stadium. Just the corners.
We’re floundering pretty bad here; soft at the back, useless in the front. Crap, there goes Finley again.
Ooh, that one corner has people in it — the Colonel’s Corner, as in KFC. Yes, really. Oh, Salt Lick City.
Ljungberg even likes to argue calls that go his way. He just likes to argue. Playing great though. Montero isn’t.
I can hear our supporters but I can’t see them.
Zakuani is fast but he’s bad with the ball. I wonder if he can get better training or something.
Fuck. Saw that one coming a mile away.
Where’s Seba?
The stadium’s empty by Seahawks standards.
I hate Kyle Beckerman’s hair more than anything in the world.
@10, I think it’s pretty unlikely that the Seahawks would draw much of a crowd in a soccer-only stadium in Utah. We’re not at home. In other words, you suck at internet.
They’re starting to roast us here. We’re doing an awful lot of standing around on the pitch. Ljungberg’s the only one running.
Hurtado misses the next match, I think. FUCK.
@14 I’m pretty sure he sat one out for yellow accumulation some time in June.
It sure didn’t take long for the Sounders to become yet another Seattle team that starts off strong and then fizzles.
What will the crowd here look like after a couple seasons of boring play like what we’ve seen most of this season though?? We look like a college team.
Uh, the stadium’s not in Salt Lake City. It’s in Sandy, of “Big Love” infamy.
Haters, you realize this is an expansion team, right?
Aaaaaand we’re out of the playoff zone.
A very uninspiring game. I just hope that they were just tired. Perhaps with an entire week off, they’ll play better next week.
If we had a high speed passenger rail line from Seattle to Salt Lake City, my guess is attendance would have been higher.
They don’t usually build high speed railway lines between two places a thousand miles apart with nothing in between, Will.
How is Dan’s boycott of Utah coming?
Are we showing them who’s boss?
@22 for some reason i feel the need to point out slc has infinitely more light rail than seattle and it sort of rocks… for being in utah.
@25, it’s not “infinitely” more anymore, thank goodness, because we finally have more than zero. But I wonder how long it will take us to top their ridership figures, or those of other cities we like to look down on, like San Jose, San Diego, L. A., or Phoenix.
Plenty of blame to go around, but watching Montero stand around is infuriating.
Maybe a bit deflated after the divisional loss and that thumping by Barcelona?
Moreso, SLC is a bit high in altitude, about 4200 feet above sea level. Think the thin air wore the Sounders out down the stretch?