Article author:
The Canadian Press
Jim Morris
VANCOUVER — Midfielder Ryan Gold has announced that the Vancouver Whitecaps will win Major League Soccer. The playoffs are on high with a 2-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids on Wednesday night.
Colorado striker Gyasi Zardes scored in the 76th minute.
At BC Place Stadium he won in front of 14,682 fans, defeating the Whitecaps (9-11-6) by 33 points in his seventh and final playoff run of his conference. pushed into his spot. It was also the bounce-back performance coach Vanni Sartini had hoped for after his team lost 5-2 to the LA Galaxy on Saturday's travels. The Whitecaps are (3-3-3) in his last nine games.
Colorado (8-10-7) dropped him to 11th in the West with 31 points. The Rapids suffered just his second loss in the last eight games (3-2-3). They are 2-7-3 on the road.
The Western Conference remains tight. Six teams are vying for sixth place, just two points behind Galaxy and Colorado.
Vancouver goalkeeper Thomas Hasal made his first start since injuring his hand against Toronto on May 8.
Gold scored first in the 14th minute from Julien Gressel's heads-up his play. The Vancouver midfielder, whom he acquired from DC United in a July trade, stole the ball along the sideline and ran it into the Colorado net. He threw the ball to Gold, who beat goalkeeper William Yarbrough with a right-footed shot.
It was his second time in eight games that Vancouver had scored his goal in the opening of the game.
Gold won him 2-0 in the 40th minute. He pounced on a turnover in the Rapids zone, used his speed to pass several defenders, and landed a low, hard shot past the wide Yarbrough who found the corner of the net.
Gold came close again early in the second half and shot from deep in the box, but goal he was stopped by a Colorado defender at the line.
Zardes made something interesting late in the second half. Ruiz opened the play with a shot stopped by Hassall, but Zardez rebounded.
This goal gave the Rapids momentum and put the Whitecaps under pressure for the rest of the game. The crowd groaned when the seven minutes of injury time was extended. Zardes went into extra time and headed the post.
Gold has six goals this season, his second with the Whitecaps behind Lucas Cavallini's eight goals. Gressel, who collected his first assist as a whitecap, came close in the 38th inning with a hard shot from long range that narrowly missed the open side of the net.
Colorado's Jonathan His Lewis had some big chances in the first half. In the 22nd minute Hassal stopped a Lewis shot from the left side of the box, and in the 26th minute Lewis fired a shot just over the net.
Throw-in: defender Javain Brown left the game early in the first half with a left ankle injury. The only whitecaps to have scored a goal at home in the first half of the season are Gold and defender Ranko his Veselinovic. .. The Whitecaps are back on track to play Real his Salt Lake at Rio Tinto's stadium on Saturday, finishing his three games in eight days. ⦠Four of Vancouver's remaining eight regular season games are underway. ⦠The Whitecaps have loaned midfielder Caio his Alexandre to Brazilian Serie A side He Fortaleza EC until 31 December 2022. And he broke his left.
This Canadian Press report was first published on August 17, 2022.
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