Seattle Sounders v St. Louis City SC: Hosts suffer fresh Morris injury blow

Seattle guardant Jordan Morris volition beryllium retired an estimated six weeks owed to a near hamstring injury, Brian Schmetzer confirmed up of the Sounders’ MLS clash with St. Louis City.

Morris, the Sounders’ all-time apical scorer, suffered an wounded successful their 1-1 gully with the Colorado Rapids and was replaced successful the closing stages by Danny Musovski.

The striker walked disconnected unassisted and suspected the wounded was not severe, according to Schmetzer’s post-game comments astatine the weekend.

But aft undergoing 2 scans, the valuation showed Morris had picked up the aforesaid wounded helium suffered backmost successful March during a CONCACAF Champions Cup game.

“It’s the aforesaid spot and that’s what they’re acrophobic about,” Schmetzer said of the club’s aesculapian squad connected Morris’ injury.

“Jordan felt fine,” Schmetzer said of his betterment from the March hamstring injury. “He sprinted 98% of his max connected aggregate occasions.

“The 30 minutes helium played against Nashville, the full region successful sprint was higher than the 45 minutes helium played successful Colorado.

“So it wasn’t a drastic summation successful sprint region that happened. So, we’re turning implicit everything conscionable to fig it out.”

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St. Louis, meanwhile, are without a triumph successful their past six MLS games, but were wrong touching region of a 3rd triumph of the run successful their past league fixture.

Leading Los Angeles FC 2-1, Denis Bouanga, who had missed an earlier penalty, sealed a stock of the spoils heavy into stoppage time.

Olof Mellberg’s clip find themselves down successful 12th successful the Western Conference aft their caller run, with the St. Louis brag believing a triumph is conscionable astir the corner.

“We’ve got to proceed with this warring spirit, the volition to win,” said Mellberg. “They’re putting successful a large effort retired there, the boys, and person done truthful acold for the full season.

“They’ve got to truly support that going. And effort to amended connected the ball, and hopefully we volition commencement winning games.”

The effect was their 2nd consecutive gully aft a stalemate with the league-leading Vancouver Whitecaps, with St. Louis midfielder Marcel Hartel believing his squad person built a coagulated instauration to physique connected implicit the club’s past to matches.

“We person a batch of confidence, we played against a precise bully opponent,” Hartel explained. “LAFC is simply a precise bully team.

“We were truthful adjacent to getting 3 points distant from home, which is tough.

“Especially the 2nd half, we person a batch of affirmative things that we tin analyse and tin instrumentality implicit to the adjacent crippled successful Seattle.”

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Seattle Sounders – Danny Musovski

Musovski has scored a extremity successful 3 consecutive league games for the archetypal clip successful his MLS career.

Only 4 players successful Sounders past person scored successful 4 consecutive regular-season matches, astir precocious Raul Ruidiaz betwixt May and July 2019.

St. Louis City – Cedric Teuchert

Teuchert scored his seventh vocation regular-season extremity connected Sunday to spell on with 5 assists.

His 7 goals are the astir by immoderate St. Louis City subordinate since his MLS debut past July, portion his 5 assists are tied with Marcel Hartel for astir connected the squad successful that time.

MATCH PREDICTION: SEATTLE SOUNDERS WIN

Seattle person mislaid lone 1 of their past 17 regular-season location matches (W9 D7) dating backmost to the commencement of May 2024, including going unbeaten successful their past 8 astatine Lumen Field (W4 D4).

St. Louis City, meanwhile, are winless successful six consecutive matches (D2 L4) aft conceding an equaliser successful the 5th infinitesimal of stoppage clip against LAFC connected Sunday. They person had lone 1 longer winless tally successful nine history, a nine-match span betwixt May and June 2024.

But this weekend’s visitors won their past gathering with Seattle backmost successful March, earning their archetypal ever triumph against them aft losing their archetypal 4 meetings. The Sounders won the archetypal 4 matches by a combined people of 9-1, including 5-0 successful 2 meetings astatine Lumen Field.

OPTA WIN PROBABILITY

Seattle Sounders – 57%

Draw – 22.3%

St. Louis City – 20.7%