A week after missing a penalty and fresh off blowing a sitter, Dempsey still manages to score two.
It has been said that great goal-scorers are just wired different. That to be a great goal-scorer they just need to cope with failure in a way that others can’t really fathom. They need to have confidence that just because they miss a penalty or, say, botch a sitter that they’ll convert the next chance.
Let it be said that Clint Dempsey has these particular personality quirks in spades.
It’s that kind of confidence that leads to Demspey leaving no doubt as to who would take the penalty with the Sounders locked in a scoreless tie against their biggest rivals with their playoff hopes very much on the line.