Good Monday morning Caps fans, hope you all are well rested and having a good start to your work week.
It almost seems pointless to break down Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the San Jose Earthquakes, which was marred by another Time Ford disasterclass in a Whitecaps match. If you watched the match, I don’t need to provide any analysis of the horrific quality of the officiating. If you didn’t, well, you’ve probably seen the social media discourse and comments from Jesper Sorensen anyway.
I give Sorensen credit for not going full Vanni Sartini and instead focusing on what was generally speaking a good enough performance given the circumstances. Being a man down for an hour generally kills any chance you have in a match but I didn’t think San Jose created all that much danger before Tristan Blackmon conceded a “penalty” shortly after halftime. Even after that, the Caps were more aggressive until late in the second half and Jayden Nelson in particular did his best to carry things.
Vancouver thought they had done enough to earn a point on the back of a well taken Brian White goal, one of the concrete positives from this match. White needs confidence and his lovely goal will help build that belief.
Still, that makes the late equalizer — which came off one of the few defensive miscues of the night — all the more frustrating. The Caps should have gotten a point and did enough to do so and it is frustrating they couldn’t get it over the line.
When the officiating kills off any chance at a fair match, however, you can’t do anything more than throw up your hands and move on to the next match. The midweek Voyageurs Cup match will be the perfect chance to do, as will Thomas Mueller’s debut next week against Houston. The overwhelming feeling during the second half on Saturday (aside from ire at Tim Ford) was that the Caps had no real options to come in and help them maximize the moments they had in transition. Rest assured, help is on the way on that front. Help with PRO? Probably not coming anytime soon.
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We recap Ford-gate in our post match analysis. Meanwhile, the podcast takes stock of the post-Mueller world.
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Unsurprisingly, Mueller has already led to a boost in ticket sales — will we get the upper deck opened up?
The Whitecaps 2 side also conceded a stoppage time winner to The Town FC, as their form has dipped a bit.
Forge continued their 21 match unbeaten run … [chuckles] I’m in danger.
Netflix (?) will broadcast the next two women’s world cups in Canada.
like you, i expect 2 more signings- CB and left defender- adding depth and hopefully experience and quality
when Ahmed, Crabrera. Muller, a new CB, a new left defender and- lets hope so- Gauld-, the Caps will be set for a run at MLS Cup…
unless tim ford is assigned a game against us – he is an incompetent/overly zealous fool of a ref and MLS HQs should give him the boot or he will continue to bring further disgraceful performances and not just to the Caps
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“Being a man down for an hour generally kills any chance you have in a match”
If you take into account the combined 17.5 mins of stoppage time that was played, it was actually 80+ minutes of playing down a man.
Thomas Müller (German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈmʏlɐ]; born 13 September 1989) is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a forward for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps.
Widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation, Müller has been praised for his positioning, finishing, playmaking, work-rate, and consistency in both scoring and creating goals. He is both the all-time German top goalscorer and assist provider in the UEFA Champions League, scoring 56 goals and providing 30 assists.
Dont wanna disrespect out big star
Mueller? Isnt it muller
The name is actually Müller, but for written German the accepted substitution when you can’t write a “ü” is to replace it with a “ue” (because German is very precise about pronunciation and just leaving it as “u” would lead to incorrect pronunciations)