Matt Blewett-USA TODAY Sports For a third straight match, the Vancouver Whitecaps earned a single point with a 1-1 draw in Minnesota on Saturday night. We break down the performances in the latest report card. Saturday night in Minnesota, the Vancouver Whitecaps played out a 1-1 draw against a depleted Minnesota United side that was without seven regular starters. While the Whitecaps controlled the tempo for most of the match and overall played some pretty attractive attacking football, some of the same looming problems with this team remained. Namely, the Whitecaps continue to struggle finish ..read more

Matt Blewett-USA TODAY Sports Good Monday morning Caps fans, hope you all had a relaxing weekend and are getting back in the groove ahead of whatever this week has in store. In my non-soccer life, I am also a journalist and there exists a concept of the Friday afternoon news dump. The Caps over the years have become experts at burying bad news on Friday and, well, they got another whopper in this week. Nikos Overheul departed the Caps as head of player recruitment on Friday, a move that was apparently mutual in nature and, almost certainly, was not unrelated to the anemic start to the season i ..read more

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports The Whitecaps are in the land of a thousand lakes to take on the Loons. Welcome back, everyone. The Vancouver Whitecaps are out on the road this weekend taking on Minnesota United. A big story for both teams this weekend is international call-ups, especially for the Loons, as they will be missing 7 regular starters heading into this one. For the Whitecaps, they will be without the services of Andres Cubas and Javain Brown. As an additional note, obviously Sergio Cordova is out for a while with injury, but Deiber Caicedo is back in the team and could see his fir ..read more

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports The Whitecaps search for three points in California this weekend. Welcome back, everyone. After an eventful midweek jaunt down to Honduras, the Vancouver Whitecaps are back in action this Saturday against the LA Galaxy with a fairly well rested roster. For everything you need to know about the matchup specifically, be sure to check out our match preview here. In terms of predictions, Vanni Sartini had no injuries of note prior to training on Friday, but I will update here if I hear anything different. I would expect most of those who sat out Wednesday to play ..read more

Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports After a tough start to the season for both teams, the Whitecaps will be looking for key points in the city of Angels. Saturday night at Dignity Health Sports Park, the Vancouver Whitecaps will visit the Los Angeles Galaxy, with both teams looking to pick up their first win of the MLS season. Kickoff is set for 7:30PM Pacific. The Galaxy had a strange start to their 2023 campaign as their planned Rose Bowl Game against LAFC had to be cancelled last minute due to inclement weather on opening weekend. Since then, the Galaxy have spent the past two weeks on the r ..read more

Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports This is perhaps the most anti-climactic report card in recent memory, as a largely rotated Caps side marched onto the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League, despite a 3-2 loss to Real Espana in San Pedro Sula. A host of guys got full debuts and other youngsters popped up over the course of the match. What takeaways are there from this? Probably not many, but here are the grades anyway. Thomas Hasal: 7.5 Aside from the direct free kick conceded and a couple questionable reads of crosses, this was a very good match for Hasal. Coming up with a couple of ..read more

Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images ‘Caps fall to Honduran Opposition, but Make it to the Next Round Vancouver in the CCL is something not many people expected last season, but in a world full of surprises, the usual odd team out in both Cascadia and Canada managed to qualify for a competition they’d not played in since 2017. In the opening round, they backed up their qualification by besting Honduras’ Real Espana 7-3 over the course of two legs. The lineup coming into this matchup in Honduras, was a bit of a surprise, especially with how many key names were left home. However, given ..read more

Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports The Whitecaps will be in Honduras looking to see out the tie after a 5-0 first leg. Welcome back, everyone. The busy schedule for the Whitecaps continues as they head to Honduras to see out their CCL matchup with Real Espana after a 5-0 first leg at BC Place. It will be interesting see how Vanni manages his squad given the large scoreline of the first match and the overall importance of lifting their league form, as the Whitecaps will play again this Saturday in LA. There are no standout injuries or absences I’m aware of since this past weekend. However, the ..read more

Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports The Vancouver Whitecaps picked up their first points of the MLS season, but many of the same niggling issues remained. Saturday afternoon at BC Place, the Vancouver Whitecaps earned their first result of the young MLS Season with a 1-1 draw against FC Dallas. It was a match of mixed emotions for the Whitecaps, as they recovered well from a bumpy start, yet, many of the lingering problems from the first couple matches of the season remain. Overall, this team’s ability to defend crosses has been their biggest issue to date, while getting their strikers in bette ..read more

Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports Good Monday morning Caps fans, hope you all had a restful weekend. It was a nice break but the move to daylight savings has me nodding off as I write this on Sunday night — hopefully it is comprehensible enough. Vancouver got off the mark in MLS play Saturday, nabbing a single, solitary point off a 1-1 draw with FC Dallas that was long on hard work and gritty play but was otherwise short on meaningful action. We discussed last week the need to keep positive momentum flowing following the CONCACAF Champions League drubbing and, while there were certainly clear ..read more