WIZARDS: Tireless effort in key victory (and KC holds opponents shotless for first time since 1996)

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MLS Week 26 highlights - TORONTO FC @ WIZARDS
Published 9/22/2008 by Mr. Adventure at San Diego MLS Project
from MLSNet, It's not often a team holds their opponent to no shots on goal. But the Kansas City Wizards did it for only the second time in their history Saturday night in a 2-0 win against Toronto FC. April 13, 1996 -- the Wizards' inaugural game as an original member of Major League Soccer -- is how far one has to go back for the last time their opponent was unable to get off a shot on goal. That fact alone reveals the work put in by the Wizards on the victory. "Wow. That shows that we had a very good defensive effort," said Wizards head coach Curt Onalfo, a bit taken aback by the ...

MLS Monday — The Very Best of Week Twenty-Six
Published 9/22/2008 by Ric at The World's Beautiful Game
This has truly been an amazing round for Major League Soccer.  Recent bottom-of-the-table dwellers like the Wizards, Chivas USA and Galaxy had big wins, and because of other upsets and surprising results around the league, everything is upside-down, and with only a month to go ! Previous posts at MVN Soccer detail the before, during, and after, of the breakthrough 5-2 win by the Galaxy, and we consider that a great match of round 26;  however, since we’ve posted much on that one already, we’d like to highlight three others that didn’t get as much attention.  We are including Sunday’s big 4-1 upset away win over ...