Even when Chicago Fire forward Nemanja Nikolic was confidently banging in goals at a record pace, he knew a time like this would come.
Nikolic believes in the ups and downs of a striker’s life, riding your confidence when it is high and maintaining it when it should be low. After scoring twice in a win over Vancouver last month, he talked about how he bounced back from bad prior games, telling reporters that “you can miss the chances but you cannot lose the belief in yourself.”
Now in the midst of his longest MLS scoring drought – no goals in six games since that brace against the Whitecaps – he doesn’t seem to be panicking.