We are now officially halfway through the 2019 Major League Soccer season. Every team has played half or more of their matches and as the summer rumbles on, the sport’s gaze turns towards the mad playoff push that will occur over the coming months.
The first four-and-a-bit months of action have starred several exhilarating individual performances, some of them from very expected places and others less so. So who has put together an excellent first half-season that seems beyond their initial expectations?
Here are the top three breakout players from the 2019 MLS season thus far.