It's hard to quantify leadership but you know it when you see it. Good teams have it, bad ones tend not to. And no one knows this better than Minnesota United.
Minnesota finished ninth in the Western Conference in each of its first two seasons in Major League Soccer, but with a newfound sense of leadership in 2019, the club finished fourth in the West and is primed to make some noise in the playoffs -- especially as the Wonderwall welcomes the LA Galaxy to Allianz Field for the club's first-ever postseason contest
The Loons' rise from doormat to 16/1 candidates to lift MLS Cup -- the sixth-best odds in the 14-team playoff field -- can be attributed to several factors.