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Weekend win lands Men In Red in MLS Team of the Week for week 17

Veljko Paunovic

There was no shortage of candidates to represent the Fire on the latest MLS Team of the Week thanks to a 4-0 win on the weekend, and MLS has selected three on-field standouts for the Fire and a fourth from the sideline. 


Defender Matt Polster joins midfielder David Accam in the squad's Starting XI with Bastian Schweinsteiger also earning inclusion on the bench. Fire head coach Veljko Paunovic also picked up his third weekly coaching honor of the season after seeing his squad extend its MLS unbeaten streak to nine games and its home winning streak to seven. 


Polster picked up his second assist of the year in setting up Accam's stellar backheel finish -- which has been nominated for MLS Goal of the Week -- while Schweinsteiger teed up Accam's second strike just six minutes later, the German's fifth assist in 14 MLS matches. 


See below for the complete MLS Team of the Week:


MLS Team of the Week — Week 17
GK:
Andre Blake (PHI)
D:Matt Polster (CHI), Ike Opara (SKC), Drew Moor (TOR), Ben Sweat (NYC)
M: Danny Hoesen (SJ), Yangel Herrera (NYC), Federico Higuain (CLB), Alejandro Bedoya (PHI), David Accam (CHI)
F: Jack McBean (LA)


Bench: Bill Hamid (DC), Leandro Gonzalez Pirez (ATL), Cristian Roldan (SEA), Bastian Schweinsteiger (CHI), Kekuta Manneh (CLB), Ola Kamara (CLB), Josef Martinez (ATL)


Coach: Veljko Paunovic, CHI

Weekend win lands Men In Red in MLS Team of the Week for week 17 -