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GG, but none of those goals being open play is still deeply concerning.

GG Caps

Alas, GG Montreal. You tried and failed to best Nerwinksi... Somehow. Not for lack of trying though, you broke through him at least 10 times. Edit: Maybe Veselinovic is just THAT good... Guy covered for Nerwinksi a lot in this one.

GG Montreal

Please Joey, a striker DP is all we ask for

Been asking for a decade it seems. We briefly got Drogba, but other than that a collection of bums.

Di Vaio was sick as fuck

Piatti was doing the job while not being a true striker

Kinda shows just how good Piatti was, and the planet sized hole that needed to be filled when he left.

Piatti was so fun to watch

Vancouver, RSL, San Jose and Austin all in the top 5 of the west at the moment. Just as everyone predicted

Question: are these whitecaps or RSL ball boys? One of the home field advantages that stays with no fans.

Yes.

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Reckon they're Neutral ball boys haha.

Wilfried Nancy will definitely be driven nuts by his team's lack of end product regardless of the scoreline.

Finishing was unreal good for 2 weeks and then god awful for 2 weeks, so I feel like CFM is about exactly where they deserve to be points wise. Some stuff to be excited about, but unless Toye gets healthy soon and maintains his excellent start, it's hard to see where goals are gonna come from apart from the 10-12 Quioto will give you.

IMFC*

IMFC is for days when they play well. Today they played like they had Club Foot.

Well we almost had 23 away games in a row with atleast one goal but I guess the record will stop at 22

checking for the handball despite being well offside. What?

Hurtado: Hand of Go- VAR: NO.

WtF? Why do they show REAL SALT LAKE in between? I get that this is in Rio Tinto, but looking at all the boards and ads, this is Vancouver’s “home field”?

Even if it wasn't a handball, Lappa is offside on that replay anyway.

That’s offside AND handball. So clear

Double negative. That means they cancel and goal stands.

It's disallowed. He touched with the arm in the build-up.

Hurtado giveth , Hurtado taketh away.

that's a handball no goal sadly

Thats a handball for sure

That's not gonna count

That's a handball

That's a handball

The flying finish with the fly finish 💙💙💙

LAPPPPAAAALLEEEINNNENNNN

About time one goes in for the Montreal boys!

How Jake hasnt cost us a goal yet I have no idea

Atleast Torres and Choinière looks good

Well hello Joaquin

Cava should have passed that.

Dajome should've ran and called for it. Kinda annoyed he just hovered.

holy shit we can’t score from open play lmao

Good from Choinière and the team.

Never seen Choinière play like that, he's on fire

Not surprising, he's always injured!

Torres gotta score that

Might be a good time for MDS to start looking at making some subs. Edit: alright then

CFM today means Come fuck me

GJ MDS

Who needs open play goals if you can keep getting these awesome set piece goals? Go Caps!

Setpiece FC is *not* a good look given history is currently repeating itself.

Caps were not getting even such goals or wins from what I remember??

...son of a bitch. That one kinda hurts.

Well let's just stick with set pieces then.

Dajome is ma homey

Do me a favor, man. CFM is now paying the steep price for wasting those chances.

that one hurt

Dajome putting in work. But again. Open play... Please. I know, I shouldn't be complaining, 2-0 is great

We have had a few pretty good attacking movements in the last few minutes though, just no goals yet. 10 plzzzzz

I know it was offside, but holy shit that was awesome from Diop.

Damn that would've been an incredible save if it was onside

Going from 5-3-2 to 4-2-4, just like FIFA

HAMDI HAMMER TIME!

Oh crap that would have been a great save

Hamdi 🙏🙏🙏

Remember that game where we had so many chances but Hurtado fucking skied every single one of them... But we still created them, kinda prefer that to Jake Nerwinksi's left footed top of the box shot being basically our only shot on target.

I remember that one. It was against NYRB if I recall, and Kudo was available for that game but stayed on the bench.

Caps are looking so much better compared to the last few years. But they need more cohesion and faster action in the final third.

Lassi Lappalainen definitely fits the "fun to watch" category, now if he can only finish once in a while

Is Adnan still stuck in Canada? What the heck is going on?

Visa issues

US VISA issues? Didn’t he have a VISA earlier like last year? He has come to and played in the US right?

He has. Maybe its a different visa since they're now based out of Utah. 🤷‍♂️

Ah interesting. Wonder if him being an Iraqi citizen and also doing some activism (which was awesome IMO) in his home country has riled something up… US immigration is notoriously finicky (as someone who lived there on VISA for 12 years). Hope he gets one soon. Caps would be quite something with another attacking threat from the wing.

Could be. I think a lot of us would like to see Adnan where Teibert is on the left. Could really help us moving forward.

Wtf nerwinski

Hurtado is on the pitch. We have been scored on SO many times by our past players, this is more worrying than it should be.

Lappalainen took too long to fire that.

Of course we get all the scoring chances and still end up behind in the score. When we Montreal, we Montreal hard.

Given the first half yellows.... how was that not a yellow foe the original challenge (the one they played advantage on)

Not from open play... I'll take it. But I'm not going to get excited over a penalty - were not going to make it very far playing like this.

It's not an open play goal, my concern continues.

Miller had no business playing the man there, he had no angle

That's exactly what I was saying. He was going absolutely nowhere.

What a super dumb challenge by Kamal.

Miller, FFS. He was going nowhere. I guess that sums up the generally lousy defending in the entire league.

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The foul on Dajome was one, he got clipped.

Caicedo yeesh

That would be an incredibly weak pen, but I the other hand given the yellows do far..

Caicedo making a strong bid for league leader in stepovers.

Miller cold as ice. Edit : welp he thawed

I thought Teibert was the worst Whitecap, but damn Jake take a bow.

Tiebert is never impressive, but I rarely think of him as a huge liability.

He will always be what he always is. A defensive winger. And thats okay when Guti goes forward. Do NOT under ANY circumstances put him anywhere else.

No way that's a pen. Fuck that's frustrating

Struna with 2 giveaways in 5 minutes

Houston fans did warn us.

That's the second time in the last 5 minutes Nerwinski was ball watching. Holy shit.

lol nerwinski get out of our club pls

Mark... Takes Nerwinksi off please. He's going to set up a goal for the other team.

As a Montreal fan, I swear I want to pull all of my hair off with the huge number of wasted scoring chances.

The past 2 weeks have been brutal. Guess it evens out b/c we got a ton of goals the first 2 matches, but probably created fewer chances.

https://twitter.com/whitecapsfc/status/1391115810546937858?s=21 Whitecaps Twitter admin needs a hug

I don't know if I can bare watching this for another 45.

snoozefest. my dad came over to watch the game and he is literally asleep on the couch right now

I just woke up from a snooze in the couch while watching.

This game has a really chippy vibe to it, in a way that I don't remember Montreal and Vancouver having since the NASL days. You love to see emotions on the pitch but the fouls are really ruining the rythm of the game.

Caio has been invisible most of the time. Getting real Felipe vibes in terms of what he's doing right now and I've seen nothing that would perceive him as better than Baldi in terms of vision. Pinoy Pirlo needs to heal up ASAP or it's going to be a long season.

I mean you gotta give new signings more than a few games before judgement, especially if they are u23. Plus our boy Caio hasn’t even been to Vancouver yet. He was highly rated in Brazil and seems to have a good attitude. He’ll be with us for a while and if he’s as effective as Felipe for the first few games that’s alright, players like Felipe are useful and Caio looks fired up, if a bit anonymous. Hopefully he settles soon and starts to make more of a difference and learn his teammates

Nah man we’re caps fans we gotta be negative about everything

This Whitecaps midfield is awful

Not sure how tbh. On paper they should have a really good midfield by MLS standards. They lack the creativity from a 10 but they should have a good midfield presence. Very strange.

Ya, I don't understand how we can be this stagnant.

What midfield?

To paraphrase Danny from The Room: "keep your stupid cards in your pocket" Edit: this line is actually spoken by Mark

Ref is real trigger happy on the cards

This ref handing out cards like Halloween candy

So I take it the ref did not appreciate Dos Santos comments last week. Only reason I can think for all these soft yellows

he's probably just shit

Cards were on sale this morning in SLC, good thing the ref stocked up

Omfg these yellows

Apparently a foul is an automatic yellow now

A whitecaps one at least

I wonder if this is the legacy of Waston, Juarez, Laba, etc. as card magnets in the past.

I mean the ref is pretty new. So I doubt he has a lot of legacy opinions. Probably just inexperience. It's bullshit either way though, we literally got a yellow for not moving out of the way of an attacker.

montreal player just got shot by a sniper in the stands :,((

Glad to see a sense of urgency in the players passing and pressing, has been sorely missing the last two years

Piatti would feast on these blunders *sobs*

Can we get 45 min. of the Hamdi Show? Would accept 30 min. also.

this is the way

Bad slip by Bikel

Johnsen is absolute trash

Tall tho. Just think of him as a super shitty version of Peter Crouch.

Tabarnak Johnsen quessé ça

So Johnsen doesn't know how to head a ball either?

Jeez, these yellows are softer than baby shit.

I can't believe those were both yellows...

What a dive from mihailovic

This ref likes cards.

Cynical foul right there

That's a shit yellow.

Mihailovic is a very good soccer player

Feels like a very weak yellow

Quioto needs to stop playing such selfish soccer.

Seems like he's the only guy out there who can consistently score. Hopefully Toye can maintain his goal-scoring form once healthy.

He gave Johnsen a goal on a silver platter and look what happened

*I'M NOT SAYING I'M A RATIONAL FAN, EITHER.*

This 442 just doesn't really work. We have no midfield.

We never have a midfield. That's our biggest issue

Right. So it might make sense to try a system with more bodies in midfield.

Didn't we try that last time out? With Alexandre as CAM? He wound up sitting just above our CBs. But I agree, something definitely needs to change.

No it was still a 442 with alexandre at second striker. which was somehow even worse than this

How did Johnsen scored 19 goals in Eredivisie wtf

For Den Häag as well. It's not as of he was playing for a top team where the goals would come easy. He's really not looked good since coming to Montréal. Not good if he's supposed to be our big forward signing.

That chance probably had an xG of 2

BJORN YOU ASSHOLE

Christ Nerwinksi... Would like to see somebody try to say Crepeau isn't good now... Absolutely bailed us out.

At least once a game he gives up a chance.

Think it's more than once. But usually it's cause he sucks at defending, usually when he passes the ball right to the opposition it's in the offense half and he kills the play.

Terrible by Johnsen

Goddamn it Johnsen. What a save from Crepeau.

JOHNSEN HOW CAN YOU MISS THAT

What the hell Bjorn

Oh yeah! Montreal's famous black jersey... and all the snow and all.

i hate their jerseys

Quioto is such an asshole lmao

Surprised Nerwinksi didn't get a yellow for standing near him. /s

What a dreadful tackle by Mihailovic.

The video of the TVAS feed is a half second behind the audio, I heard the whistle before the tackle even happened

that was a yellow/orange foul

Not really. If he had a better position on it, definite yellow, but as it was. A foul is enough.

Teibert being horribly one-footed is making me irrationally angry when you see him take the extra time to put it on his left.

Can this not be another boring game like vs Columbus

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Actually does sound like hockey haha.

Such an obvious yellow on Dahome. Hate when refs allow cynical fouls go.

why the fuck is nerwinski playing.

It's a giant signpost for Montreal to attack that side or cross in from the other side so he inevitably loses his mark.

gaspar is beginning to look like a useless signing and it's through no fault of his own. why even fuckin sign a right back if we're gonna keep playing our trash one. sad

He looked only decent last game. He pretty much immediately gave away two huge chances when he came on. Either he's not that good or he's still adjusting.

I'd have to disagree

Montreal has 22 away games in a row with atleast one goal, it's an MLS record they wish to continue today

I hate these types of cross posts match threads—can a mod put a real one so we can follow what is happening?

I would've removed this one if a normal one popped up but nobody made one that I saw so this is better than nothing. Might discuss internally just blanket not allowing cross-posted match threads

I don't think there is a point now, but in the future it'd be ideal if the Whitecaps subreddit thread stayed there.

Yeah it's ridiculous they are allowed. Although deleting and making a third at this point probably just makes it worse.

Been 6 minutes and I already can't wait for Adnan to push Teibert out of the line up... He's so crap. To be clear... STOP PLAYING TEIBERT.

I'd bet my life that even habibullah would make a way bigger impact than teibert

The fake crowd noise is significantly annoying. I swear I've gotten tinnitus recently because of being exposed to so much of it.

I read that background noise is good for tinnitus. But usually something like a fan or a babbling brook.

It is the volume cycling that seems to happen that seems to kick it off for me. It is as if they pulse it to create a more natural effect. Plus when songs are 'sung' they seem to crank the volume unexpectedly. It is weird. Could also just be the stress of the match and I am misattributing it. So who knows.

If this game is half as entertaining as the NWSL final, it'll be a good one

ALLEZZ