Welcome back, everyone.
The Vancouver Whitecaps open their MLS Season in Portland this weekend, taking on the Timbers.
After a frustrating result against Saprissa down in Costa Rica, Jesper Sorensen will be keen to right the ship quickly at Providence Park on Sunday. Emmanuel Sabbi, Damir Kreilach, and Daniel Rios remain out. For all the rest on the matchup, check out our preview.
I still have a bit of formatting to do with the standings, including separating Concacaf from the MLS season, so that will be optimised in due course.
Good luck!
- 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 of the season, the contestant’s lowest two scores (or missed predictions) of that period will be deducted from the cumulative standings.
2-0 caps
Takaoka
Blackmon Veselinovic Laborda Adekugbe
Cubas vite ahmed
Gauld white Nelson
Gauld White Ahmed
Berhalter Cubas Vite
Adekugbe Blackmon Ranko Laborda
Takaoka
1-1
1-1 Draw
Takaoka
Laborda Ranko Blackmon Sam
Vite Cubas Berhalter
Ahmed White Gauld
1-2 Whitecaps
Takaoka
Laborda Veselinovic Blackmon
Adekugbe Vite Cubas Berhalter
White Gauld Nelson
Definitely tentative on starting Nelson.
I wish Jesper would give nuggets of hints like Vanni used to on the morning news BWAHAHA
The only thing for certain is that none of the lineups will be the same the first four matches of the season…
AtlantisB
So close to getting off to a good start, instead I am at the bottom because Saprissa needed to ruin it! Oh well, let’s try again.
Takaoka
Adekugbe, Blackmon, Veselinovic, Laborda
Vite, Cubas, Berhalter
Gauld, White, Nelson
Draw 1:1
Takaoka
Laborda, Blackmon, Veselinovic, Adekugbe
Cubas, Vite, Ahmed,
Nelson, Gauld, White
Whitecaps Win (2-1)
Dirq piqx for starting XI for Game 1 vs Timbers
Takaoka
Laborda Ranko Blackmon Adekugbe
Berhalter Cubas priso
Gauld Ahmed
White
‘Caps win 1-0
Go ‘Caps
And thank you for what you do! This is fun!
Gauld White Nelson
Ahmed Cubas Vite
Adekugbe Blackmon Ranko Laborda
Takaoka
2-1 Portland
Caps 5 Portland 0 – deja woo!
Takaoka
Blackmon, Ranko, Ocampo, Adekugbe
Berhalter, Vite, Cubas
Gauld, White, Nelson
Gauld-White-Ahmed
Vite-Cubas-Priso
Ocampo-Ranko-Blackmon-Laborda
Yohei
1-1
Gault White Nelson
Ahmed Cubas Vite
Adekugbe Blackmon Ranko Laborda
Takaoka
3-1 Caps win
Cam Pierce
Taka
Laborda Veselinovic Blackmon adekugbe
Berhalter/Ngando Cubas Vite
Gauld Ahmed
White
2-1 Caps Gauld and White get both goals
Takaoka
Laborda Ranko Blackmon Johnson
Berhalter Cubas Vite
Ahmed White Gauld
Vancouver 2-1 win
Gauld White Ahmed
Vite Cubas Ngando
Adekugbe Blackmon Veselinovic Laborda
Takaoka
VWFC 1—1 PTX
Switching Ngando out for Berhalter as well!
1-1 Draw
Gauld White Ahmed
Vite Cubas Berhalter
Adekugbe Ranko Blackmon Laborda
Takaoka
Takaoka
Laborda Veselinovic Blackmon Adekugbe
Berhalter Piranha Vite
Ahmed White Gauld
2-0 Caps on the road
Taka
Laborda Ranko Blackmon Adekugbe
Priso Vite Cubas Ahmed
White Gauld
Caps 4-1 Im going big for some reason I originally went 2-1 Portland .. but since our guys have all played together I am optomistic.
Woohoo! made it happen LOL. Great game! And Nelson is going to be starting over Ahmed all day long!
Taka – Adekugbe – Blackmon – Ranko – Laborda – Cubas – Vite – Ngando – Gauld – White – Ahmed
0-0
VAN 1-0 POR
Gauld – White – Ahmed
Priso – Cubas – Vite
Adekugbe – Blackmon – Veselinovic – Laborda
Takaoka
swap ngando for berhalter, now that jc is out
Source?
MLS Player Availability Report
https://www.mlssoccer.com/league-reports/player-availability-report/
OUT: Damir Kreilach (calf)
OUT: J.C. Ngando (not due to injury)
OUT: Emmanuel Sabbi (ankle)