Welcome back, everyone.
After a nice break from Vancouver Whitecaps festivities, the team will resume MLS play this weekend by hosting the Colorado Rapids at BC Place Saturday night.
The Rapids are off to a very mixed start to 2023 with just 1 win to their credit so far on the season from 9 matches. That being said, they have managed to grind out some hard-earned points with 5 draws already. The underlying numbers suggest that either the Rapids have been very unlucky so far this season, or their finishing has been awful (it’s probably both). While the Rapids have scored just 6 goals, they’ve put up 13.5 xG, so they’ve converted on less than 50% of what’s expected of them thus far this season.
What does this mean for the Whitecaps? Well, on one hand it’s a good opportunity to jump on a struggling team. Equally though, the Rapids have actually been better on the road than they have at home this season, so who knows. In terms of lineup for Vancouver, it sounds like Alessandro Schopf is back to full training, while Sergio Cordova is on the mend but still about a week away from being ready for full first team action.
Ok, on to rules and standings:
- Predictions will be ‘valid’ if posted HERE (or more accurately, whichever is the correct match thread) before the lineup is officially announced, usually about an hour before kickoff.
- You receive 1 point for every player you correctly guess to be in the Starting XI. You receive 4 bonus points for correctly predicting all 11 starters.
- You get 5 points for correctly guessing Win/Lose/Draw, this doubles to 10 if you also predict the right score-line along with the result.
- All this means, if you correctly predict the Starting XI, Final Score, and Winner, you can earn 25 points!
- At the end of each half, the contestant’s lowest two scores of that period will be deducted from the cumulative standings
Takaoka
Brown Ranko Blackmon Ahmed
Gressel Cubas Schopf
Gauld White
Becher
2 1 win
Starting XI & Score Prediction
Takaoka
Brown Veselinovic Blackmon Raposo
Gressel Cubas Schopf
Gauld Caicedo
White
Score: ‘Caps 0 -2 Rapids
Takaoka
Brown, Blackmon, Veselinovic, Martins
Gressel, Cubas, Ahmed
Gauld, White
Becher
Caps 2-1
Caps 3-0 W
Takaoka
Brown Blackmon Veselinovic Raposo
Gressel Cubas Schopf
Gauld Vite
White
EL capitano- 2
And my reply was supposed to be in reply to my lineup comment BWAHAHA Ugh, this site is so buggy for me.
I don’t know what that comment left me as Anonymous but it’s me — Amanda C!
1-1
Takaoka
Brown Blackmon Veselinovic Raposo
Gressel Cubas Schopf
Gauld Vite
White
Aside from the Dajome News, there’s not been a whole of news about the players! Aside from Cordova, they’re all rested and healthy, right?!?! Right!??! Hope this match will be a thrilling one!
Takaoka
Brown, Blackmon, Veselinovic, Raposo
Gressel, Cubas, Ahmed
Gauld, Caciedo
White
Whitecaps 1:0 Rapids
Takaoka
Martins Veselinovic Blackmon Brown
Cubas Gressel Ahmed
Gauld White
Becher
2-0 caps
Takaoka
Brown Blackmon Ranko Raposo
Gressel Cubas Ahmed
White Gauld
Becher
‘Caps win 2-0
Go ‘Caps
White Becher
Gauld
Ahmed Cubas Gressel
Martins Ranko Blackmon Brown
Takaoka
1-0 Caps
Caps 2-0
Takaoka
Brown Ranko Blackmon Martins
Gressel Cubas Ahmed
White Gauld
Becher
Takaoka
Brown Blackmon Veselinovic Martins
Gressel Piranha Ahmed
White Gauld
Becher
2-2
White-Becher
Gauld
Ahmed – Cubas – Gressel
Martins – Veselinovic – Blackmon – Brown
Takaoka
Tie 1-1
White-Becher
Gauld
Ahmed-Cubas-Gressel
Martins-Ranko-Blackmon-Brown
Takaoka
Caps win 2-1
Takaoka
brown veselinovic blackmon martins
gressel cubas ahmed
white becher gauld
subs- hasal, schopf, berhalter, vite, caicedo, teibert, raposo
2-0 Caps win
Takaoka
Brown Blackmon Ranko Martins
Gressel Gauld Cubas Ahmed
Caicedo White
White-Becher
Gauld
Ahmed-Cubas-Gressel
Martins-Ranko-Blackmon-Brown
Takaoka
Caps win 2-0
1-1 draw
Becher
White Vite
Gauld Cubas Gressel
Ahmed Blackmon Veselinovic Laborda
Takaoka