SEATTLE – Seattle Sounders center back Chad Marshall has largely made his name in MLS due to his propensity for preventing goals, as evidenced by his distinction of being the only three-time recipient of the league’s Defender of the Year award.
This season, however, the 32-year-old is proving that he’s anything but one-dimensional. Marshall’s game-deciding tally in the 24th-minute of Seattle’s 1-0 victory over the Chicago Fire on Wednesday was his fourth of the season, a total that equals his scoring output from the past five seasons combined.
Marshall told reporters he didn’t have a concrete explanation for this season’s surge in offensive production after the game.