The Seattle Sounders pulled off a slim 1-0 win over FC Dallas on Tuesday night time through a really acquainted methodology: a Nico Lodeiro penalty.
Lodeiro stepped up within the thirty ninth minute, sending Dutch goalkeeper Maarten Paes the improper manner and firing low into the again of the web.
The Uruguay worldwide’s purpose delivered a priceless victory for the Sounders, who climbed into sixth and above the MLS Cup Playoff line. Much more outstanding is that Lodeiro is now 18 for 18 in relation to penalties in MLS regular-season play.
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Absolutely, Lodeiro should research lengthy and exhausting on goalkeeper habits, figuring out which manner his opponent prefers to dive on any given matchday?
“No, I research my mind, and deal with my legs and ft,” Lodeiro mentioned. “After I take the penalty kicks with my teammates in coaching, I at all times deal with my confidence and attempt to have the identical on the sphere in a recreation. After I take the purpose, I really feel assured. I do know possibly the keeper can save the ball, however whenever you shoot with confidence, you’ve got extra possibilities to attain.”
Lodeiro set the MLS document for many regular-season penalties scored with a one hundred pc document when he dispatched his 14th in 2020. It will be tough for anybody to catch the 33-year-old now.
“I’m very impressed. Now, I don’t need to miss,” Lodeiro mentioned of his private document.
The purpose that bought us the W 🤩 pic.twitter.com/o4LdwimOTF
— Seattle Sounders FC (@SoundersFC) August 3, 2022
Tuesday’s efficiency wasn’t classic Sounders. They needed to work further exhausting to beat Dallas, who may have simply equalized on one other day.
However then, Seattle went into the match on a run of 5 defeats of their final seven MLS matches. With confidence and delight bruised, all that basically mattered was selecting up the win in any manner potential.
“The efficiency in all probability wasn’t as much as our commonplace,” midfielder Albert Rusnak mirrored. “At this level within the season and with the great quantity of losses in the previous couple of video games that we’ve performed, it was all about successful, getting three factors, shifting up within the desk and we did that.”
