Welcome back, everyone.
The Vancouver Whitecaps will be back at BC Place on Wednesday night, after a rather unusual reprieve from what had been an incredibly busy first half of the season.
Their opponents for this match are perhaps the best story in the West outside Vancouver, yet another expansion team that has found first year success, though unlike St. Louis and Austin before them, their form looks to be far more sustainable. The team is a good mix of proven talent from European leagues, unheralded youngsters and MLS vets who might just need a role that better suits their strengths. This combination has led to one of the more well rounded teams in MLS, one that scores at an elite level but is still pretty solid defensively.
For the Whitecaps, the continual question is who is actually available to play. Sam Adekugbe is out for the season and now Ali Ahmed can be added to the injury woes, as he has left Canada camp after taking a nasty challenge against Curaçao. Equally, there is still no meaningful update on Ryan Gauld. Brian White and Seb Berhalter remain with the US at the Gold Cup, as does Jayden Nelson for Canada. At the very least, Emmanuel Sabbi is back in the mix after missing last game as he was getting married, congrats to him!
Alright, on to rules and standings we go.
– 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.
Skipping out of reception, hope I can do the lafc game here
2-0 caps
Takaoka
Blackmon Veselinovic Laborda Johnson
Vite cubas badwal
Rios sabbi ocampo
Ocampo Ríos Sabbi
Priso Cubas Vite
Johnson Blackmon Veselinovic Laborda
Takaoka
2-1 win
AtlantisB
Takaoka
Ocampo, Ranko, Blackmon, Johnson
Badwal, Cubas, Ngando
Vite, Rios, Sabbi
Vancouver 2:1 San Diego
I am going to be optimistic with my score, and thinking Laborda is saved for the weekend in LA.
Sabbi Rios Ocampo
Vite Cubas Priso
Johnson Blackmon Ranko Laborda
Takaoka
2-1 Caps win
Cam Pierce
Caps 2-1
Taka
Laborda Ranko Blackmon Tate
Vite Cubas Priso
Sabbi Rios JC
Yohel Takoka;
Mathias Laborda; Tristan Blackmon; Ranko Veslinovic; Tate Johnson
Édier Ocampo; Andres Cubas; Pedro Vite
Jean-Claude Ngando; Daniel Ríos; Emmanuel Sabbi
Whitecap 2 – SD 1 [Flic Soda]
Ocampo Ríos Sabbi
Priso Cubas Vite
Johnson Blackmon Veselinovic Laborda
Takaoka
2-1 San Diego – hope I’m wrong. Boy do I want the Americans to lose to Costa Rica!
Caps win 3-2 (CDPrior)
Takaoka
Laborda Ranko Blackmon Ocampo
Ngando Cubas Priso
Vite Rios Sabbi
Rios-Sabbi
Vite-Cubas-Ngando
Ocampo-Blackmon-Ranko-Utvik-Laborda
Takaoka
Caps win 2-1
VAN 1-1 SDFC
Ngando Ríos Sabbi
Priso Cubas Vite
Johnson Blackmon Veselenovic Laborda
Takaoka
CopPop
Takaoka
Veselinovic Blackmon Laborda Johnson
Cubas vite ngando
Sabbi Rios ocampo
2-1 caps
Takaoka
Laborda Veselinovic Blackmon Johnson
Vite Piranha Priso
Ngando Rios Sabbi
1-3 San Diego
Caps 5 sd 2
Takaoka
Ocampo, ranko, blackmon, johnson
Vite, cubas, priso
Ngando, rios, sabbi
Ocampo Ríos Sabbi
Priso Cubas Vite
Johnson Blackmon Veselinovic Laborda
Takaoka
VWFC 1—2 SDFC
TAKAOKA
LABORDA VESELINOVIC BLACKMON JOHNSON
PRISO VITE CUBAS NGANDO
OCAMPO RIOS
Salty
2-2
Takaoka
Laborda Veselinovic Blackmon Johnson
Cubas Priso Ngando
Vite Rios Sabbi
Hmm. Will we have that many goals? I hope we do and more!
Takaoka
Laborda Blackmon Ranko Johnson
Priso Cubas Vite
Ocampo Ríos Sabbi
Vancouver wins 2-1
2-2
Rios Sabbi
Vite Cubas Ngando
Ocampo Blackmon Utvik Ranko Laborda
Taka