Seattle Sounders vs. LA Galaxy – Playoff Game Preview
Wednesday, October 28th, 10:00 p.m. ET. CenturyLink Field, Seattle, WA.
The second game of Major League Soccer’s initial playoff rounds will show a faceoff between two fierce rivals from the MLS Western Conference.
Hosts Seattle Sounders SC kicked off September with a 2-1 home win over Toronto FC, on to a 1-1 draw at San Jose Earthquakes, followed by an impressive 3-0 win at Vancouver Whitecaps.
Oddly, Seattle finished the Major League Soccer season with three consecutive league games, all ending at a 1-1 tie (against Sporting Kansas City, tonight’s rivals LA Galaxy, and Houston Dynamo).
In their last game of the regular MLS season, Seattle registered a 3-1 home win against Real Salt Lake.
Seattle Sounders are ranked fourth in the MLS Western Conference (15-13-6), and are tied at 51 points with tonight’s rivals from LA that are ranked fifth, as well as sixth-placed Sporting Kansas City.
Similar to Seattle Sounders, visitors LA Galaxy started the MLS 2015 season with a bang, but then swirled into a mixed bag of results towards the end of Major League Soccer regular season.
The Galaxy stared September with two scoreless matches (a 0-0 draw at home with Montreal impact, and a hefty 3-0 loss at Real Salt Lake), then saw a brief recovery and won FC Dallas 3-2 at home.
LA’s first match in October was against tonight’s hosts Seattle Sounders where it drew 1-1 at tonight’s CenturyLink Field.
LA Galaxy proceeded to finish the MLS 2015 regular season with two losses, 5-2 to Portland Timbers and 2-1 to Sporting Kansas City, at home and away respectively.
LA Galaxy are ranked fifth in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference (14-11-9), and as said tied at 51 points with fourth and sixth placed teams.
This teams met three times during the 2015 Major League Soccer regular season. On April LA Galaxy won 1-0, in August the Galaxy won again 3-1, and the teams drew 1-1 in October.
