SEATTLE — While the Seattle Sounders and FC Dallas have tendency to meet each other in the MLS Cup Playoffs, their encounters have rarely played to a familiar script. We’ve seen low scoring affairs (2014), penalty heartbreak (2015), unexpected blowouts (2016) and extra-time shootouts (2019). With the Sounders as the prohibitive favorite based on payroll, seeding, experience and home-field advantage (such as it is), the mostly likely outcome would seem be somewhere between a blowout and a comfortable win. But then that was expected to be the case last year, when FC Dallas took the eventual MLS Cup champions to the limit in extra time.
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