Terrence Boyd scores fifth goal in last three games for Rapid Vienna

(Samuel Kubani/AFP/Getty Images) Terrence Boyd is probably in the best form of any American No. 9 at the end of the European league season. He scored again on

Liviu Bird | May 4, 2014

Terrence Boyd scores fifth goal in last three games for Rapid Vienna /

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Terrence Boyd is probably in the best form of any American No. 9 at the end of the European league season. He scored again on Sunday, his fifth goal in the last three games to follow two-goal games in each of the last two weeks.

Boyd's goal came in the 34th minute against Wacker Innsbruck. It ended up being the winner, as Vienna won 2-0 to extend the gap in the standings above third-placed Austria Vienna to six points.

Boyd only scored once in all of March, finding a goal in a 6-3 loss to Red Bull Salzburg on March 2 before the United States' match against Ukraine. Since then, it's been quiet on the Austrian front, until Boyd broke out with a brace on April 20 at Grödig.

He followed that up by scoring twice against Salzburg at home, netting his team's first and then putting home the winner in the 84th minute after the visitors equalized. With his goal on Sunday against Innsbruck, Boyd has scored against the Bundesliga's top-placed club and bottom-placed club in the past two weeks.

Published May 4, 2014

LIVIU BIRD

Liviu Bird is a soccer analyst with more than 20 years of experience in the game. He learned how to play in the streets of Romania before moving to the soccer wilderness of Fairbanks, Alaska, escaping to play collegiately as a goalkeeper at Highline Community College and Seattle Pacific University, where he also earned his B.A. in journalism. Bird played semiprofessionally and had tryouts at professional clubs but hung up his gloves in 2012 to focus on writing and coaching at the youth and collegiate levels. He joined Sports Illustrated in March 2013 as a freelance contributor and has also written for NBC Sports, Soccer Wire, The New York Times, American Soccer Now and the Telegraph (UK).