Sounders vs. Timbers: Highlights, stats and quotes

The Seattle Sounders finish the regular season on a seven-game unbeaten run and having one 12-2-3 over the second half, but head into the playoffs on a bit of a down note after tying the Portland Timbers 1-1 on Saturday. Yeimar Gomez Andrade scored to give the Sounders a first-half lead and were mostly dominating play until the Timbers got out on a counter-attack, setting up Antony’s equalizer. Obed Vargas was then shown a second yellow for dissent and the two teams traded blows before ultimately settling for a tie, which allowed the Timbers to claim the Cascadia Cup.

Highlights

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MATCH SUMMARY

Seattle Sounders FC 1 – Portland Timbers 1

Saturday, October 19, 2024 

Venue: Emerald Queen Casino Pitch at Lumen Field

Referee: Ismir Pekmic

Assistants: Logan Brown, Gianni Facchini

Fourth Official: Victor Rivas

VAR: Kevin Stott

Attendance: 36,341

Weather: 60 degrees and light rain 

SCORING SUMMARY

SEA – Yeimar (Albert Rusnák) 37’

POR – Antony (Evander) 68’

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY 

SEA – Nouhou (caution) 23’

SEA – Paul Rothrock (caution) 59’

SEA – Obed Vargas (caution) 65’

SEA – Obed Vargas (ejection) 69’

SEA – Albert Rusnák (caution) 69’

POR – Jonathan Rodriguez (caution) 90’+5’ 

LINEUPS & STATS

Seattle Sounders FC – Stefan Frei; Alex Roldan, Yeimar, Jackson Ragen, Nouhou (Raúl Ruidíaz 90’+3’); Cristian Roldan, Obed Vargas, Pedro de la Vega (Reed Baker-Whiting 73’), Albert Rusnák, Paul Rothrock (Georgi Minoungou 86’); Jordan Morris

Substitutes not used: Andrew Thomas, Nathan, Danny Leyva, Jonathan Bell, João Paulo, Danny Musovski

Total shots: 16

Shots on goal: 6

Fouls: 14

Offside: 1

Corner-Kicks: 7

Saves: 1 

Portland Timbers – James Pantemis; Claudio Bravo (Eric Miller 85’), Dario Zuparic, Finn Surman, Juan Mosquera; Evander, Diego Chara (Eryk Williamson 62’), Cristhian Paredes (David Ayala 62’); Felipe Mora (Mason Toye 81’), Antony, Jonathan Rodriguez

Substitutes not used: Maxime Crepeau, Tega Ikoba, Marvin Loria

Total shots: 7

Shots on goal: 2

Fouls: 16

Offside: 0

Corner-kicks: 2

Saves: 5

Quotes

Brian Schmetzer

On tonight’s result against Portland: 

“Full room in here. Thank you. Full room. Full stadium. So, thanks [to] all the fans. I think everybody is frustrated. Everybody is super frustrated. This was as good a chance as any to end that streak, certainly against a lively home crowd with Cascadia Cup on the line, and super disappointed about not being able to bring that to our fans. You know, what can I say? Game unfolded in a certain manner. I thought we were in control of the game, and things, you know, just didn't end up in our favor. It is a loss, by the way. It is a complete loss.”

Stefan Frei

On what he thought the positives were for this match: 

“I thought we had a good game, I thought we had a good first half. I thought we came out really well. We had a good mix in terms of possession, in terms of how we played direct. I thought we were in control of the game. [We] won the first half, it was great. The goal at halftime was then to come out and win the second half and I thought we started out pretty decent, I thought in good control of the match. Then they scored that goal, which is a bit unfortunate. I think we are going to look at that… we get countered on and they upgrade their shot twice, things we need to get better at. Another positive, I think, is that we go down a man and are pushing and are playing better and wanted it more than our opponent, who’s up one man. There’s some positives.”

Yeimar Gomez Andrade

On his goal:

“During the week we have been training a lot with Andy [Rose] on those types of situations. We’ve been working hard with him, but unfortunately during the game, I’m happy that I scored the goal, but we didn’t get the points we needed.”