It was a day for the footnote-minded at CenturyLink Field Saturday. Clint Dempsey scored his 50th goal as a Seattle Sounder as the club beat Sporting Kansas City for the first time in the regular season since 2014, 1-0. The shutout means that Seattle (10-7-7, 37 points) has not allowed a goal in 400 minutes of league play, eclipsing the record of 379 minutes.

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MINNEAPOLIS – Clint Dempsey said he would buy teammate Chad Marshall dinner after poaching a potential goal from his center back, but it was the Sounders who feasted on Minnesota United FC Saturday. Dempsey scored twice and the Sounders were dominant in the first meeting between the reigning MLS champions and the league’s newest expansion franchise.

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The trouble with squaring up between long-time colleagues is that each knows all of the other’s moves. That was the case for Brian Schmetzer’s Seattle Sounders at the Stub Hub Center Saturday night, when the LA Galaxy, under newly appointed head coach Sigi Schmid, struggled to a scoreless draw, matching one another at every turn.

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Sigi Schmid, fired by the Seattle Sounders midway through the 2016 MLS season, is back in pro soccer, replacing Curt Onalfo as the head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy, the club confirmed Thursday. Schmid, who coached the Galaxy from 1999-2004, returns in time for the club’s match against the Sounders Saturday in Carson, CA. (7 p.m., ESPN).

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Playing as if someone someone was trying to set his feet afire, Cristian Roldan scored two goals in two minutes and nearly bagged two more as Seattle tore through the San Jose Earthquakes 3-0 Sunday night at the Clink. The Sounders improved to 8-7-6 and climbed above .500 for the first time since the conclusion of the 2015 regular season.

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The Seattle Sounders yanked four rabbits out of a hat Wednesday night, becoming the first team in MLS history to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a game in regulation. Despite an anemic first half, a critical second-half goal and a savvy double substitution from coach Brian Schmetzer provided what was needed to complete the stunner against DC United.

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Clint Dempsey struck twice, early and late, to ensure a Seattle road victory over the Colorado Rapids Tuesday,  a rough 3-1 win that cost the Sounders (6-7-6, 24 points) two players due to injury.

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The Seattle Sounders shored up a back line that has conceded 27 goals in 18 games Saturday, adding Dutch right back Kelvin Leerdam from Vitesse in the Eredivisie using targeted allocation money. The 27-year-old defender is a product of Feyenoord’s youth system.

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Despite a second-half goal from Aaron Kovar, the Seattle Sounders flamed out in the U.S. Open Cup round of 16 Wednesday night, losing 2-1 to the San Jose Earthquakes at Avaya Stadium. Seattle’s Francisco Narbon was sent off late in the first half, reducing the Sounders to 10 men.

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The last time Seattle went to Portland's Providence Park, they were without Clint Dempsey because of a heart problem. Dempsey made up for lost time on a sweltering Sunday night, heading in the equalizer in the fourth minute of stoppage time against the Timbers after coming on as a substitute just shy of the hour mark.

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The 42,333 packed into CenturyLink Field Wednesday night hoped the Seattle Sounders had rebuilt the traditionally ironclad walls of their home fortress. Despite being poised for a fifth consecutive home win after an early Will Bruin goal, Seattle conceded a tying goal in the game's final seconds for a 1-1 draw with Orlando City SC.

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In a downpour at Yankee Stadium, a first-half goal from Cristian Roldan wasn’t enough to keep the Seattle Sounders afloat. A pair of second-half scores by New York City FC’s David Villa, one from a controversial penalty decision, sank the Sounders 2-1 Saturday afternoon. The defending MLS champions are 5-7-4 and seventh in the Western Conference.

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As far as banishing demons go, Tuesday’s fourth-round U.S. Open Cup win for the Seattle Sounders will do little to alleviate the collective grief lingering from the 2015 debacle against the Portland Timbers that featured three red cards for Seattle. Still, with both sides fielding backup-heavy lineups, the 2-1 victory over Portland advanced the Sounders in the tourney.

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Playing with a brace on his arm that affected movement and balance wasn’t too great a hindrance for Will Bruin. The 27-year-old forward headed in his fourth goal of the season to give the Sounders a 1-0 win over Bruin’s former club, the Houston Dynamo, at CenturyLink Field Sunday, Seattle’s third consecutive win at home.

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Conceding two goals in the first half and a third in the second, the Sounders stumbled in a 3-0 loss on the road to the Columbus Crew Wednesday. Forced to make six changes to the starting lineup that beat Portland at home 1-0 Saturday, Seattle was outshot 12-6.

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Off the field, Cristian Roldan is the kind with whom everyone wants to be friends. On the field, people will soon seek to wear the same color uniform as the University of Washington product. The Sounders midfielder Saturday was the feisty soul of the Sounders and the sole scorer in a 1-0 rivalry victory over the Portland Timbers.

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For 42 years, the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers battled across the divisions and incarnations of American soccer, besting one another many times over as the rivalry developed into the fiercest in the American game. Never, though, have they met with a championship star over each club’s crest and a pair of ravenous fan bases demanding continued glory.

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In both a literal and metaphorical sense, the sun Saturday afternoon burned off the clouds that have covered Seattle and its Sounders lately. A ricochet goal from midfielder Harry Shipp banished the gloom, snapping a four-game winless streak and providing proof that Seattle still knows how to find the back of the net at Century Link Field.

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Even Humpty Dumpty would offer Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer his sympathies for Seattle’s dreary 2-5-4 start to the season, second-worst in MLS. Absent healthy defenders, Schmetzer has been forced to field eight backfield lineups filled with second and third-choice options, with predictable results.

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The Chicago Fire, once seen as something appalling, are flipping the script in hopes of becoming something appealing through a series of acquisitions, including World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger of Germany. The club started 2017 3-3-3, good enough for sixth in the Eastern Conference standings as they get set to host the Seattle Sounders Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN2).

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