Whitecaps’ skid continues with home loss to Minnesota

Vancouver Whitecaps 0-1 Minnesota United

VANCOUVER, BC–The Vancouver Whitecaps’ continue their descent down the table with a 1-0 loss to Minnesota United. The loss makes the Whitecaps winless in their last five games and drops them to eighth in the Western Conference table in the Wildcard match. The Whitecaps will fall to ninth should Portland defeat FC Dallas on Sunday. Meanwhile, Minnesota has now was five of its last seven and jump to seventh. Both sides had already clinched playoff spots.

The game’s only goal came in the 24th minute after Whitecaps defender Mathias Laborda tripped Carlos Harvey just inside the box. Hasani Dotson converted the spot kick for the visitors putting them ahead. Vancouver thought they had an equalizer in the 35th minute, but VAR spotted a foul by Ryan Gauld on Jeong San-bin in the buildup nullifying the goal.

Minnesota actually had more opportunities in this one outshooting the Whitecaps, 16-8, and 4-2 on target.

The Whitecaps do have a match in hand, but that is against LAFC on October 13th at BC Place (7:30pm PT, Apple TV), and they will be without several players on international duty: Ryan Gauld (Scotland), Pedro Vite (Ecuador), Andrés Cubas (Paraguay), Fafà Picault (Haiti) and the Canadian duo of Ali Ahmed and Sam Adekugbe.

Minnnesota hosts St. Louis on Decision Day, Sunday, October 19th (8pm CT, Apple TV).

For more of Gerrit te Hennepe’s photos from the night at BC Place, please click on the link to his gallery.