Opponent: Portland Timbers
When: 6 p.m.
Where: Qwest Field
TV: Kong 6/16
Radio: None
Scouting report
Tickets will be tough to come by once the regular season kicks off, but tonight is a chance to catch Sounders FC at Qwest Field for a good price and a good cause. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 6-17, and free for kids under 5, and proceeds go to the team’s four community partners: Boys and Girls Club of Washington State, Save the Children, Seattle SCORES and Washington Youth Soccer. And there are plenty of tickets available.
As for the game itself, this is the first “Community Shield” match against the Timbers, who will join Major League Soccer next season. And while the schedule calls this a “friendly” meeting between two teams whose history goes back to the 1970s when they were both part of the North American Soccer League, the game will likely have a little bit of an edge to it.
Seattle’s main objective — aside from winning — will be to get its offense clicking. Goal scoring was a bit of a problem last season, especially in the playoffs when Seattle failed to score in two games, and the Sounders have managed just one goal in its last two preseason games. And with only two preseason games left before the season opener, expect a lot of people to get into the game as coach Sigi Schmid and his staff have a lot of decisions to make before the start of the season.
“We want to look at a few different people (tonight) as well,” Schmid said. “There are still some decisions that we have got to make. So we want to look at some people and maybe look at a different mix in the middle of midfield for us.”
John Boyle, Herald writer
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