Orlando City South Carolina loses 4-0 against Seattle Sounders

Seattle (10-12-2, 32 pts.) has lost eight of its last nine games, including five straight, and has dropped from first plac e in the West to sixth – holding a narrow one-point margin over the Houston Dynamo in the playoff race.

Martins added Seattle’s third goal just after the hour mark, impressively hurdling Orlando goalkeeper Tally Hall to poke the ball into the net, while Thomas struck the home side’s fourth in stoppage time.

Orlando City’s Kaka, center, kicks the ball past Seattle Sounders…

Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. PST and will be televised nationally on ESPN2.

Status of Clint Dempsey and Osvaldo Alonso does not look as good.

“Unfortunately, for the last couple of months, we’ve not had great performances from some players”, Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey told reporters. The players made the decisions. The Lions do, however, seem to show poorly against teams they should win against; I am sure last weekend’s tie against the worst team in the league is blaring in your head right now. “This group wasn’t able to get the results that we wanted, and we had to change it”. The attack for Orlando City, this including Brazilian star and team captain Kaká, was just an enormous disappointment in a match of this gravity. Perkins, who played 63 games for Montreal over the course of three seasons, knows how risky the Impact are on home soil. The Sounders are optimistic that both Dempsey and Martins will rejoin the lineup on Sunday against the Lions.

Orlando City’s Adrian Winter left, attempts a kick as Seattle… Expected to make their Sounders’ debuts are forward Nelson Valdez, arriving from the German Bundesliga; midfielder Andreas Ivanschitz, arriving from Spain’s La Liga; and central defender Roman Torres, arriving from the Panama national team. “We can’t worry about who is playing on the other team”.

The Sounders could have scored even more with Martins having a penalty saved on the half-hour mark after Mateos hauled Chad Marshall down at a corner, while Seattle played against an undermanned Orlando for 50 minutes after Tyler Turner’s red card in the first half. “It was pretty sad seeing the team losing a lot of games”.