MONTREAL -- Seattle Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer sees United States striker Clint Dempsey "rounding back into form" after missing eight months because of a heart ailment.
Dempsey has gone the full 90 minutes in each of Seattle's two games of this MLS season. The three time World Cup veteran scored against the Houston Dynamo last weekend in his first appearance since August, when the team's medical staff discovered an irregular heartbeat and shut him down for the remainder of the Sounders' championship-winning 2016 campaign.
The 34-year-old Dempsey had a goal called back late in Saturday's 2-2 tie against the Montreal Impact, after Seattle and U.