Hello, everybody, and welcome to an MLS Cup final review show live from, I guess we're recording this live,

you're not hearing it live, from CenturyLink Stadium in Seattle, Washington.

I am Taylor Rockwell. I'm joined by Joseph Lowry. Hello, Joe.

Hey, Taylor, how are you doing? Doing very well, man. It's pretty exciting. We're recording this in what was the,

I think it maybe was the TUDN broadcast booth.

I'm not entirely sure, but you can hear the literal Seahawks in the background.

You can hear the people cleaning up the stadium.

We're recording just after, or a little bit after the results.

Seattle Sounders 3, Toronto FC1.

Joe, was this overall, not necessarily the game, but the results? Was this what you expected? Or did you think it would be maybe going into extra time? Maybe we'd get penalties. What were you expecting heading into this? I think the result is what I expected. And this is something that Brian Schmetser talked a lot about this week, about the narrative of them being favorites and kind of how his team was built to deal with

that a little bit.

They'd come in against LASC winning that match in the Western Conference final, not being

favorites.

But coming in against Toronto, a team that's without Josie Altador that's coming in, having

to play away against a big away crowd, a record-breaking crowd here at Central Link.

I think I expected Toronto to kind of be the underdog here, and ultimately that's how it turned out. Yeah, I would agree with that. That said, I think we were both a little bit surprised by the way things went in the first half, especially from like minute five or so to minute 25. It seemed like Toronto were really starting to get more of the ball, seemed to be very dominant.

Seattle, a lot of their attacks were coming from long balls from direct play,

certainly trying to do the counterattack,

but not with the numbers committed forward that would make that effective.

So what do you think, like, cause Seattle those problems,

why were Toronto the better team in those opening minutes?

I think some of that visual of Toronto being the decidedly better team compared to Seattle

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