Seattle's Voice held the Liga MX Side Santos Laguna in Phase 2 of the 2025 League Cup Phase 1. Here's everything you need to know:
When and where: The kickoff time is PT at Lumen Field (ticket) at 7:30 pm.
Where to watch: The game will be televised on FS1, Unimás and Tudn. It will also watch the MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.
Where to listen: This match will be aired in Spanish on El Rey 1360AM.
League Cup format: The 2025 League Cup has all 18 LIGA MX teams and top 18 qualified clubs from MLS. The teams are divided into the East and West regions and are divided into layers based on the performance of the 2024 league. Each club will play three group matches with teams in the opposing league, and no draw is allowed. In direct contact with the pistol battle with the end of the scoring level, both teams scored one point, while the winner of the gunfight received additional points. The first four clubs in each league will begin in the quarterfinals. From there, it was the single-elimination sprint for the League Cup final on August 31.
What to endanger: In addition to the mainland bragging rights, the top three winners of the League Cup will also receive automatic bids for the 2026 CONCACAF Champions League. The champion will get a direct position in 16 rounds.
About Santos Laguna: Founded in 1983, the Torren-based club held home games at Estadio Corona. Los Guerreros Has six LIGA MX titles and has won two runner-ups in the CONCACAF Championship Cup.
Current form: Santos ranked 11th in the LIGA MX Apertura table, three points (1-2-0), three points.
detector: Defeat Cruz Azul 7-0
Santos Laguna: Lost Colorado Rapids 2-1
Head to head: Sounders and Santos Laguna met in the quarterfinals of the 2012 CONCACAF Champions Cup (Née Concacaf Champions League). The Sounders won the first leg 2-1 in Seattle, before winning a 6-1 win in Mexico's return game, Herculez Gomez, in that game. In 2021, Santos took revenge on mainland revenge in 2021 after defeating the League Cup from Raúl Ruidíaz's suspension championship in the semi-finals.
Roller scrolling: Seattle entered Sunday with the biggest win in club history. The place to beat CCC champion Cruz Azul 7-0 on Thursday was lowered, the MLS team's biggest ever win over the LIGA MX team, seven straight games (4-0-3) in all games (4-0-3) while scoring another 21 goals.
Puskás de la Vega: Sounders winger Pedro de la Vega recorded a training game on the bench against Cruz Azul, which included a volley worth a hit with the Puscas Prize, the team's seventh goal.
Brunel debuts: Two days later, two days after Tacoma Defiance signed the first team contract for Tacoma Defiance, the first team contract for 18-year-old Kirkland in Washington state was a second-half substitute against Cruz Azul.
Bouncing for de Rosario in bouncing: This is the immediate influence of forward Osaze de Rosario, who, like Brunell, signed from Tacoma earlier this year. He has scored two goals in his last two games and has maintained the famous de de Rosario name in the MLS.
Asevedo suspends: Santos will be especially without goalkeeper Carlos Acevedo, who was against Colorado in the seventh minute of stop time.
Santos Laguna players watch:
- Ramiro Sordo, f: The 25-year-old winger started the Liga MX Apertura campaign with two goals in three games. He joined Santos from the Old Boy in Newell in 2024.
- Jordan Carrillo, MS: Carrillo scored Santos' goal against Colorado and will be planning most of the offense in the final third. The 23-year-old Mexican international is part of the Santos Youth Academy and has previously loaned Sporting Gijón in Spain.
- Cristian Dájome, ME: The Solenoid will be very familiar with Dájome, who spent more than three years in Vancouver Whitecaps in Cascadia. The 31-year-old Colombian was his first season in Santos after winning a free game at DC United earlier this year.