Seattle vs Minnesota Utd - prediction, team news, lineups

Facing elimination connected Monday, the Seattle Sounders invited Minnesota United to Lumen Field successful crippled 2 of that best-of-three opening circular bid successful the MLS Cup playoffs.

The archetypal lucifer successful this bid went to the Loons connected penalties 3-2 aft a goalless 90 minutes, putting Minnesota successful presumption to beforehand into the 2nd circular for a 2nd successive campaign.

Match preview

After a shootout nonaccomplishment past Monday evening, the Sounders find themselves successful an unfamiliar position, needing a triumph to debar an aboriginal post-season exit.

It is the archetypal clip that they are trailing a best-of-three bid since this format was introduced successful 2023, and losing crippled 2 would people their archetypal opening circular playoff elimination since 2021.

While being successful their presumption is ever a small uneasy, they should fancy their chances of survival, fixed that they are connected a nine-match unbeaten tally domestically astatine Lumen Field, emerging victorious from those erstwhile 2 location encounters.

Brian Schmetzer’s men won 5 regular-season location outings successful 2025 by a azygous goal, 4 of which ended successful a shutout, counting their last 2 games played successful Seattle earlier the playoffs.

The Rave Green person not mislaid their opening playoff lucifer astatine location since a 1-0 decision to the Los Angeles Galaxy successful 2010, portion conceding conscionable erstwhile successful their erstwhile 5 post-season encounters astatine Lumen Field.

In their lone erstwhile playoff matter versus Minnesota astatine home, they fought backmost from 2 goals down to people 3 times successful the last 15 minutes positive stoppage clip and assertion a 3-2 triumph successful 2020.

Game 1 was astir a c transcript of the opening lucifer of the 2024 playoffs for Minnesota, arsenic they held their nervus connected penalties some times aft failing to concede successful mean time.

The Loons are present unbeaten successful their erstwhile 3 MLS playoff fixtures successful circular 1 and person picked up 2 cleanable sheets implicit that stretch.

During the regular season, Eric Ramsay’s squad won 8 games distant from location but failed to assertion triumph successful those last 2 outings of the year.

On Monday, they person a accidental to cod their archetypal distant playoff triumph successful mean clip since blanking Sporting Kansas City 3-0 successful December of 2020.

Minnesota did not suffer a azygous crippled successful the 2025 regular play connected the roadworthy erstwhile scoring successful the archetypal fractional but lone achieved this feat successful 1 of their last six MLS distant matches of the campaign.

Earlier this year, they secured a constrictive 3-2 triumph implicit the Sounders, their archetypal astatine Lumen Field, ending a 10-match losing streak against them successful Seattle.

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Team News

A genu contented volition apt support Pedro De la Vega connected the Seattle sidelines for this match, Ryan Kent is dealing with a musculus strain, Kim Kee-Hee is questionable with a sore calf and Paul Arriola volition beryllium recovering from a cruciate ligament tear.

Stefan Frei did not look a azygous changeable successful the opening 90 minutes of crippled one, collecting a cleanable sheet, though Alexander Roldan, his member Cristian Roldan and Daniel Leyva each missed from the punishment spot.

On the Minnesota side, Carlos Harvey and Jeong Ho-yeon are unavailable for this clash due to the fact that of a genu wounded and a cruciate ligament tear, respectively.

Dayne St Clair stopped the 4 Seattle efforts that helium faced successful mean clip of crippled one, and 1 punishment kick, portion Julian Gressel was the lone Loon to miss from 12 yards away.

Seattle Sounders imaginable starting lineup:

Frei; A. Roldan, Ragen, Gomez Andrade, Tolo; Paulo, Vargas; Ferreira, Rusnak, Rothrock; Morris

Minnesota United imaginable starting lineup:

St Clair; Diaz, Boxall, Romero, Markanich; Trapp, Triantis; Lod, Pereyra, Rosales; Yeboah

We say: Seattle Sounders 1-0 Minnesota United

The Sounders whitethorn not beryllium arsenic ascendant arsenic successful years past, but they cognize what it takes to triumph large games, and we spot their acquisition and the location assemblage volition pb them to triumph successful this must-win contest.

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