With the second half of Minnesota United’s 2019 MLS campaign beginning this Saturday, a club record is up for grabs for goalkeeper Vito Mannone — pun intended.
As it stands, Mannone has kept five clean sheets in MLS action this year, equaling fellow shot-stopper Bobby Shuttleworth’s total from Minnesota’s inaugural season in 2017. If the Italian can blank FC Cincinnati in this Saturday’s game, he will stand alone as the club’s leader in clean sheets in a single season. If he achieves this feat this weekend, he’ll break the record in only 17 games, but Vito doesn’t want to stop there.