San Diego FC has won as a heavy favorite, then a slight favorite in these Major League Soccer playoffs.

Now, it gets tougher. Because Thomas Müller insists on still making himself a menace.

For San Diego to win its MLS semifinals match Saturday night, it will take saying a firm nein — no — to the German striker’s canny bids to score or set up goals and to conquer American football as he conquered European and Argentine football long ago.

Müller the super-ager means that in this MLS Western Conference final, second-seeded Vancouver will bring more firepower into Mission Valley than top-seeded San Diego saw from eight-seeded Portland and fourth-seeded Minnesota in the first two rounds.

A decade-plus after he rocked the football world by scoring five goals in each of his first two Worl

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