Yet again the visitors displayed attacking intent and a hardened work ethic, but increasingly that appears as if it may not be enough to stop them sliding back into the Championship.
DC came from behind to defeat early Shield frontrunners Vancouver and assert their own renewed credentials in the East, while New England blew away RSL 4-0 in a game that not only displayed attacking potency but also saw a steadily improving defense maintain a shutout.
They displayed attacking behaviour and acted as if they were threatened by their own image, scraping their feet and walking backwards.
But Italy, despite losing tight-head Martin Castrogiovanni with broken ribs, displayed attacking adventure and earned their reward through Sarto's crowd-silencing score.
The Leicester-born 22-year-old displayed attacking aggression from deep in the court and with Glaswegian Bankier, 23, capitalising on any half-chances at the net, the couple took the first set.
Trump, a runner-up in 2011, displayed attacking intent from the start on Friday but found himself 6-3 behind after a costly mistake allowed Bingham to extend his lead.
Sevilla, cantering by full-time, hardly needed the assistance of officialdom in displaying their attacking brilliance.
NATIONALIST displays attacking Western media bias have generated plenty of attention and fame on the Chinese internet for "patriotic youths" and made a media darling of one website in particular: Anti-CNN.com.
Conservative critics, he adds, may have felt threatened by the "violence and 'hysteria' " they detected and felt such emotive displays "attacked the boundaries of conventional aesthetic appreciation the cultured reception of art as an act of formalist discernment and the polite engagement of art as an act of amusement".
They have also displayed signs attacking Selig; Randy Levine, the Yankees' president; and, more recently, Brian Cashman, the Yankees' general manager.
