Sounders return to MLS play with new look

Seattle Sounders FC will return to action Monday against rival Los Angeles with several changes from the team that played in its previous Major League Soccer match more than two weeks earlier.

Since the Sounders’ win over Portland on July 13, the club has signed one player and waived one player, another has gone out on loan and returned, while others have recovered from injury well enough to give coach Sigi Schmid several lineup decisions heading into the nationally televised home match against the Galaxy.

The newest Sounder is Aaron Long, who was selected by the Portland Timbers in the second round of the 2014 SuperDraft. He didn’t play there, but was put out on loan twice before being released July 2. Long began training with the Sounders soon thereafter, and was signed July 18.

“We were interested in possibly drafting him,” Schmid said. “Portland picked him ahead of us. We saw him with Portland a little bit in preseason. He was a player that I always liked. He trained with us. In the summer he was at our combine as well. And then my youngest son (Kyle) was an assistant coach where he played at: at (UC) Riverside. So we had pretty good insight as to what we thought he could do.”

Long is listed as a 6-foot-1 midfielder, but Seattle also wants to look at him in central defense.

International matches

Wayne Rooney scored twice and set up Juan Mata’s goal – all in the first half – in Manchester United’s 3-2 victory over AS Roma on Saturday in the International Champions Cup in Denver.

Marco Borriello also scored for AS Roma, which carried the play early before Manchester United took control late in the first half.

• Mauro Icardi drove the winner past diving goalkeeper Jesus Fdez in the fifth round of penalty kicks to lift Inter Milan past Real Madrid after they tied 1-1 in an International Champions Cup match in Berkeley, California.

Icardi also converted a penalty kick in the 68th minute to tie it. Referee Ricardo Salazar awarded the penalty kick after Inter newcomer Nemanja Vidic went down in the box on a challenge by Sobrino.

• Bradley Wright-Phillips scored in the 32nd minute to help Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls beat Arsenal FC 1-0 in the New York Cup at Harrison, New Jersey.

Red Bulls captain Thierry Henry, Arsenal’s career goals leader, assisted on the goal in front of a sellout crowd of 25,219 at Red Bull Arena.

• Tottenham defeated the Chicago Fire of the MLS 2-0 in Chicago. No details were available at press time.