Lodeiro first half penalty puts Sounders FC back into the playoff chase

The Sounders made it two home games in a row and are now in sixth place and brought life back to their playoff hopes.

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POST GAME NOTES

• Tonight’s result moves Seattle back above the playoff line and into sixth place, level on points with seventh-place Nashville and one point ahead of eighth-placed Portland.  

• Including the club’s 2-1 win over Colorado on July 23, Sounders FC has now won back-to-back home matches, moving the club’s 2022 MLS record at Lumen Field to 7-4-1.

• With his penalty-kick goal in the 39^th minute of play, club captain Nico Lodeiro recorded his fifth strike of 2022 and his 38^th regular-season goal since joining Sounders FC in mid-2016. 

• Lodeiro is now a perfect 18 for 18 from penalty spot in MLS regular-season play. 

• Seven of Lodeiro’s 10 goals across all competitions in 2022 have come via penalty.

• Entering the match in the 65^th minute, forward Raúl Ruidíaz made his first appearance for the Rave Green since starting on July 9 vs. Portland. Including today, the Peruvian has made just two appearances since June 14 due to hamstring injuries.

• Sounders FC is unbeaten in 16-straight home matches against FC Dallas (13 wins and three draws, including MLS Cup Playoffs) with the only Dallas win in Seattle coming in May of 2011. There have been only four longer home unbeaten runs against a single team in MLS history (including postseason play).

• Sounders FC is 14-1-4 at home against FC Dallas between MLS regular-season play and the MLS Cup Playoffs.

• Tuesday’s game was the 39^th all-time MLS meeting between these two sides, including the MLS Cup Playoffs, the second-most matchups against any one opponent for Seattle in the MLS era. Only the club’s 41 meetings against the LA Galaxy edge the club’s frequency of games against Dallas.

• Tuesday’s win was Seattle’s first cleansheet since July 2 at Toronto FC. Sounders FC now has five shutouts on the season. 

• Head Coach Brian Schmetzer made two changes to last Friday’s starting XI at LAFC, with Léo Chú and Fredy Montero replacing Jimmy Medranda and Will Bruin.

MATCH SUMMARY 

Seattle Sounders FC 1 – FC Dallas 0 

Tuesday, August 2, 2022 

Venue: Lumen Field 

Referee: Allen Chapman 

Assistants: Adam Garner, Mike Rottersman 

Fourth Official: Ramy Touchan 

VAR: Jon Freemon 

Attendance: 32,207 

Weather: 75 degrees and sunny 

SCORING SUMMARY 

SEA – Nico Lodeiro (penalty) 39’ 

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY 

SEA – Yeimar Gómez Andrade (caution) 24’ 

DAL – Maarten Paes (caution) 39’ 

LINEUPS & STATS 

Seattle Sounders FC – Stefan Frei; Alex Roldan, Yeimar Gómez Andrade, Xavier Arreaga, Nouhou; Cristian Roldan, Albert Rusnák, Léo Chú (Kelyn Rowe 65’), Nico Lodeiro, Jordan Morris (Jackson Ragen 89’); Fredy Montero (Raúl Ruidíaz 65’) 

Substitutes not used: Stefan Cleveland, Jimmy Medranda, Danny Leyva, Josh Atencio, Ethan Dobbelaere, Will Bruin 

Total shots: 11 

Shots on goal: 4 

Fouls: 8 

Offside: 1 

Corner-kicks: 3 

Saves: 3 

FC Dallas – Maarten Paes; José Antonio Martínez, Nkosi Tafari, Joshué Quiñónez (Jesús Ferreira 46’), Marco Farfan, Nanu; Brandon Servania (Paxton Pomykal 77’), Edwin Cerrillo (Tsiki Ntsabeleng 87’); Alan Velasco (Benjamin Redžić 87’), Franco Jara, Jáder Obrian (Paul Arriola 61’) 

Substitutes not used: Edwin Munjoma, Jimmy Maurer, Emmanuel Twumasi, Matt Hedges 

Total shots: 15 

Shots on goal: 3 

Fouls: 14 

Offside: 0 

Corner-kicks: 7 

Saves: 3