Best of 3 Series is tied 1-1
The home side won each of the first two Round One games between the Seattle Sounders FC and FC Dallas. The home team has lost only one of the last 29 meetings between the sides in all competitions dating back to May 2014 (W20 D8).
The Seattle Sounders FC are unbeaten in 18 straight home MLS matches against FC Dallas (W14 D4 including playoffs) dating back to 2012. There has only been one longer home unbeaten run by one team over another in MLS history (including playoffs): New England Revolution’s 20 straight against New York from 2002-13.
FC Dallas has lost seven of its last eight road matches in the MLS Cup Playoffs, including a game 1 defeat in Seattle on October 30. FC Dallas has just two outright wins (excluding breakaway shootouts) n 25 all-time road playoff matches (D5, including a breakaway shootout win, L18).
Jordan Morris has scored in each of the first two games of the series and now has five playoff goals against FC Dallas, tied for the third-most by a player against a single opponent in MLS Cup Playoffs history behind only Roy Lassiter versus the Columbus Crew SC (11) and Carlos Ruiz against the Colorado Rapids (8).
FC Dallas was 2-0 ahead of the Seattle Sounders FC after just 18 minutes in Game 2, the fastest FC Dallas has ever scored two goals from kickoff in an MLS Cup Playoffs match. In fact, it was the first time FC Dallas has scored multiple goals in a playoff match since game 2 of the 1996 Conference Semifinals against Sporting Kansas City.
