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good evening everybody welcome into sounders weekly special tuesday night show tonight we got sounders up tomorrow evening so we're moving the show to tuesday this week also tuesday next week by the way 7 p.m to 8 p.m is sounders weekly time rain weekly at 8 with keely dunning as well so stay tuned we got 90 minutes of soccer here on the way starting right now this is Sounders Weekly my name is Jackson Felts coming at you talking all things Sounders soccer and boy there is a lot to talk about here tonight in just a moment you're going to hear from winger Paul Arriola he was on the field when all of the insanity happened at the end of the game in the 2-2 draw against San Diego last weekend you'll hear from Paul Arriola in Just a matter of moments.

And, of course, we will talk with Ari Liljenwall of Lobbing Scorchers and MLSSoccer.com. And then we'll wrap up the show tonight with one of my favorite guests, Marcelo Balboa.

I know I say that about everybody, but this is definitely true.

We're going to preview that match with Marcelo Balboa and with Ari Lillian-Wall.

That comes up later on tonight.

But this first segment, we're going to talk about the Drog in San Diego, the 2-2 game.

You're going to hear from Paul Arriola later.

Okay, so he clearly had spares to give Tomas Ostrak on Saturday.

We'll see if Chris Durkin gets a yellow card against Portland or San Diego on next week's edition of Did Chris Durkin Get a Yellow Card This Week? So what happened that past week? Well, again, we'll get to, you know, RSL a little later on.

But we have not had a chance, guys, to emotionally spill our feelings about the Open Cup win that was last Wednesday night.

It is it's given us time and it's given me time to really reflect on just the magnitude of that day.

Jeremy, not only are points important, but so is goal difference over the next three games since that is now the tiebreaker.

And in theory, Jeremy, we have a couple winnable home games this week.

Yeah, we've got Portland and San Diego.

We won't touch on San Diego, Tom and Jake, but we're going to dive in to Timbers just a little bit.

When you look at our matches, our previous matches, it's just abysmal.

draws everywhere and but at least at least in the last three games we were scoring multiple goals we scored two against Minnesota the first time they scored two against us then we scored three against San Diego they scored three against us then we scored two against FC Dallas and they scored two against us and then we got not even a moment of like what looked like striking capability and it's so frustrating to watch their Markinick play 90 minutes a game.

And then we've got a guy named Markinick who, the last time he was on the pitch, set up an assist in the previous Minnesota game, not getting even a gesture to come on.

I am so tired of watching this team not go for it.

But I think as long as we could maybe get home field advantage, we won't see Arana for more than 10 minutes.

We won't see Rivera.

We'll never know if Gil Rivera is an MLS quality player until, I don't know, San Diego buys him and starts him all season and he plays well, right? Like that'll be the pattern because we have bad talent identification within our own staff.

We've seen it happen before.

That is until the fourth minute of stoppage time when Stu Hawkins got called for what I still think was an extraordinarily soft penalty.

In the end, the Sounders had to settle for a 2-2 tie with San Diego FC.

Not an awful result, but certainly less than it seemed they were going to get.

Aaron, I know early in this game, you made a comment about how this team is way too boring for the talent that they have, I believe is the way you put it.

That is until the fourth minute of stoppage time when Stu Hawkins got called for what I still think was an extraordinarily soft penalty.

In the end, the Sounders had to settle for a 2-2 tie with San Diego FC.

Not an awful result, but certainly less than it seemed they were going to get.

Aaron, I know early in this game, you made a comment about how this team is way too boring for the talent that they have, I believe is the way you put it.

Do you want to dunk on a different team? Maybe we'll go to the West instead? Hit the other coast even.

We can go to San Diego.

Yeah, I mean, I kind of went in on them and dunked on them last week, so I don't have much more to say than what I said last week with David, but they give me zero confidence that they're going to make a run for the playoffs, and it's just been another week.

And now they had Seattle at home, Vancouver away, St. Louis away, SKC at home.

and away to St. Louis if they wanted to push for the playoffs.

So,

yeah, I don't have much more to say on what's been a disappointing season for San Diego.

Do you think you could

So the earliest we could clinch a top-four seed would be on Saturday at home.

And that's if we beat Portland and we beat San Diego on Saturday.

That's it.

That closes it out.

Kristoffer Velde, we'll talk about again here in a minute, but he is a lethal set piece taker uh from 25 to 30 yards out we haven't been able to talk too much about set pieces this season but if that open play volume or chance creation stalls for them they might look for drawing fouls in dangerous areas and look to get a guy with as much quality as valde has in the ball to strike you know from deep and really create a lot of issues uh either from rebounds from just quality strikes and challenging a guy like ben luke to the pipes

Yeah, and Jake, as you were mentioning, I was looking up some other stats for this.

Even though they have what I think is the fifth most amount of passes and passes completed in the MLS, only behind San Diego, Miami, Columbus, and Vancouver, those are pretty solid teams.

We talk about who's ahead of them, and you've got a team way down below.

Nico Takeris with San Jose at eight.

Manu Dua with San Diego, nine.

Brooklyn Reigns, 10.

Frankie Westfield, 11.