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FC Dallas vs Seattle Sounders – lineup prediction and game info – 3rd Degree
13th in the West FC Dallas (4 points, 1-4-1 record) hosts 12th in the West Seattle Sounders (5 points, 1-3-2 record) at Toyota Stadium at 7:30 pm on Saturday.
This game is military appreciation night. So expect a fly-by or something.
Broadcast Info
TV: MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.
Apple TV English: Mark Followill and Warren Barton.
Apple TV Spanish: Pablo Ramírez and Jesús Bracamontes.
English Radio: 1190 am and the FC Dallas App. Owen Newkirk, Mark Dodd, and Steve Davis are on the call. Pregame at 7 pm with Sam Hale.
Spanish Radio: FC Dallas app with Carlos Alvarado and Rafa Calderon.
MLS Injury/Player Availability Report
FC Dallas
OUT: Geovane Jesus (right knee)
OUT: Paxton Pomykal (knee)
OUT: Alan Velasco (knee)
OUT: Marco Farfan (head)
Questionable: Jesús Ferreira (hamstring)
Questionable: Asier Illarramendi (adductor)
Seattle Sounders FC
OUT: Reed Baker-Whiting – Hamstring
OUT: Pedro de la Vega – Hamstring
OUT: Braudilio Rodrigues – Hamstring
FCD Lineup Prediction
Asier Illarramendi trained this week and because he is so important, I’m going to predict he will start and play half the game rather than come off the bench. It’s key to not fall behind in this one and instead get the first goal. So Illarra in.
If we take the coach quote at face value, Nkosi Tafari will likely be back in. I was so tempted to keep Omar Gonzalez at CB and put Tafari at LCB. Thus I could shift Sam Junqua to left wing back… but until someone starts over Dante Sealy, I won’t predict it.
Eugene Ansah deserves his spot and because FCD has some solid chances at St Louis, I will keep Sebastian Lletget up top too leaving Paul Arriola at right wing back.
Bench Prediction
Jimmy Maurer
Ema Twumasi
Patrickson Delgado
Marco Farfan
Carl Sainte
Bernie Kamungo
Omar Gonzalez
Logan Farrington
Nolan Norris
MLS Kit Assignments
Red and blue! Red and blue!
More Game Info
Head-to-Head Records
- FCD record: 1-4-1 (4 points, 13th in West)
- SEA record: 1-3-2 (5 points, 12th in West)
- FCD vs. SEA all-time: 8-14-10 (33 goals scored, 47 goals conceded)
- FCD vs. SEA home: 7-4-6 (23 goals scored, 15 goals conceded)
FCD is 1-3-0 when conceding first this season.
Dallas’ record against the Sounders at Toyota Stadium is 7-4-6.
Dante Sealy ranks 56th across MLS in xG (1.61) (highest in FC Dallas).
Jesús Ferreira is now tied with Victor Ulloa for most games played as an FC Dallas Homegrown.
Maarten Paes ranks seventh overall in MLS in saves made with 24.
With his next regular-season appearance, club captain Stefan Frei will hit 300 for his career with Seattle.
With his brace on Saturday against Montréal, Raúl Ruidíaz recorded his 15th multi-goal game in MLS play (regular season and playoffs), moving into a tie for fourth place among active players.
Seattle’s five-goal outburst on Saturday against Montréal marked the seventh time in club regular-season history Seattle has scored five or more goals.
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Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
Mariners Injury Update: Latest on Robles, Vargas and more
The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
Seattle Sports staff made additions to this post.
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