[The CONCACAF Champions League is a competition among teams from North and Central America. This was the quarter final stage, and the team with the most goals after the two-leg series, one home and one away, advanced to the semifinals. Away goals count for more than home goals, the reasoning being that it is much harder to travel to another team's country and play on another team's field in front of another team's fans than it is to play at home. In the first leg of this series, the Sounders lost to Tigres 1-0 in Mexico. Last night they were at home. They needed one goal to force overtime (an aggregate score of 1-1) or two goals to win it outright, but if they allowed a goal by Tigres they would have to win by two. One Tigres goal would put their aggregate score at 2-0, and even if the Sounders had scored 2 to tie it, the visitors' away goal would have carried them through to the semis. Meaning that if Tigres scored once in Seattle, the Sounders would need to score three times. Does that makes sense? Probably not. I apologize.]
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Are You Kidding Me?!
I know that virtually none of you care, but I needed to post this video. I've watched it probably ten times, no exaggeration. It's a recap of the Sounders/Tigres CONCACAF game last night and it's unbelievable. (And I just have to say, Ross Fletcher--our announcer--makes me so excited to watch sports of any kind. Hell, he makes me excited to be alive!)
[The CONCACAF Champions League is a competition among teams from North and Central America. This was the quarter final stage, and the team with the most goals after the two-leg series, one home and one away, advanced to the semifinals. Away goals count for more than home goals, the reasoning being that it is much harder to travel to another team's country and play on another team's field in front of another team's fans than it is to play at home. In the first leg of this series, the Sounders lost to Tigres 1-0 in Mexico. Last night they were at home. They needed one goal to force overtime (an aggregate score of 1-1) or two goals to win it outright, but if they allowed a goal by Tigres they would have to win by two. One Tigres goal would put their aggregate score at 2-0, and even if the Sounders had scored 2 to tie it, the visitors' away goal would have carried them through to the semis. Meaning that if Tigres scored once in Seattle, the Sounders would need to score three times. Does that makes sense? Probably not. I apologize.]
[The CONCACAF Champions League is a competition among teams from North and Central America. This was the quarter final stage, and the team with the most goals after the two-leg series, one home and one away, advanced to the semifinals. Away goals count for more than home goals, the reasoning being that it is much harder to travel to another team's country and play on another team's field in front of another team's fans than it is to play at home. In the first leg of this series, the Sounders lost to Tigres 1-0 in Mexico. Last night they were at home. They needed one goal to force overtime (an aggregate score of 1-1) or two goals to win it outright, but if they allowed a goal by Tigres they would have to win by two. One Tigres goal would put their aggregate score at 2-0, and even if the Sounders had scored 2 to tie it, the visitors' away goal would have carried them through to the semis. Meaning that if Tigres scored once in Seattle, the Sounders would need to score three times. Does that makes sense? Probably not. I apologize.]
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