Jesús Ferreira scored his first goal for the Seattle Sounders, and Stefan Frei made it stand up with seven saves in a 1-0 victory over expansion side SDFC on Wednesday night.
Ferreira used assists from Paul Rothrock and defender Álex Roldán to score in his 15th appearance with Seattle after scoring 53 times for FC Dallas from 2017-24. Rothrock’s assist was his third this season and the fifth of his career.
Roldán notched his second. He had one assist in his first seven seasons.
Frei finished off his fifth clean sheet of the season for Seattle (7-4-5). He has 111 shutouts in 367 career starts. Frei’s first six came in 28 starts with Toronto FC from 2011-13.
The Sounders improve to 6-0-3 at home through all competitions this season. Seattle and FC Cincinnati are the only two teams still unbeaten at home.
CJ dos Santos stopped four shots for San Diego FC (8-5-3), which falls to 3-4-1 on the road in its first season after beginning the day in second place in the Western Conference.
The loss snapped SDFC’s five-match unbeaten streak and due to what head coach Mikey Varas called “a bit of a strange play.”
“You know, for me, the disappointing thing is that the deciding play of the game is one in which we have both of our defensive midfielders completely out of position because Alejandro was cramping and other was stretching them, and the play was allowed to restart without these guys getting back into position, even though it was originally whistled down,” Varas said.
San Diego thumped Seattle 3-0 at home on April 5, and the Sounders have gone 6-1-2 since. Seattle trails San Diego by a point in the standings.
SDFC returns home to play Austin FC at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
“We spoke with the guys that today, we’re really disappointed, but we’re going to take this feeling, this anger, bring it home, home with us, and show it, show it on Saturday that we’re not happy to lose games,” said midfielder Onni Valakari. “And I feel we are going to show energy on Saturday, even though it’s only two days in between. But after a lost game, everybody wants to show up and get back on winning ways.
Updated 11:55 p.m. May 29, 2025
