Seattle Sounders Embarrass Vancouver Whitecaps — CONCACAF Champions League

You wear down psychologically.

“I belief Pappa did well”. Neagle’s first strike was initiated by Valdez, as the Paraguayan Designated Player unlocked the Whitecaps FC defense by playing Chad Barrett into the left channel. “Not stopping any aims can be something we’re happy with”. “We’ve got to get our minds right and turn the page real quick, as we’ve got to get ready for New York”. Wednesday evening was a train-wreck, epitomized by Robert Earnshaw’s free kick at the 85-minute mark where he looked to be channeling his inner-American footballer trying to hit a field goal and tie the game that way.

Goalkeeper Stefan Frei made his SCCL debut for Sounders FC, making two saves en route to his 11 shutout across all competitions. For him to come off the bench, his legs were a little bit fresher. When reasonably close to full health, the Sounders’ top-line and depth players are as good as anyone in MLS. I’ll just use also mentioned all about Pa Mois thatDou Kah to this very department. We give away a couple of bad goals. They made a number of changes as well, but their changes are experienced players, mine are young players. They were goals that came from mistakes.

“Obviously we’re on a little bit of a roll, and we want to keep that going”, Neagle said. As in every game, the first goal is always crucial.

Barrett was glad to see Seattle move onto the next stage after fielding healthy lineup and which featured a great showing and excellent 90 minute effort in front of the home supporters.

“We were just disappointed in the result rather than the performance”. “Especially a game that’s important like this one”. I said to Sigi (Schmid) at the end of the game that seemed like déjà vu. After all was said and done, the Whitecaps did NONE of these things. “We’ll be better for it and prepared next year”.

“I was thinking on it up until this morning. I think if we would have done this we would have advanced”. “We didn’t want to say, hey, this is a different competition”. Back in the “dire days”, it appeared as though we had vastly overestimated how much the Seattle Sounders had. Tonight hasn’t cost us really. Honduran club CD Olimpia is the final team in the three-team group. Seattle did (take care of business), so credit to them for taking advantage of that.

“It’s nice we were able to field such a good team”, he said.

“They’ll get massive benefit out of (this year)”, said Robinson. It’s just easier. You have more veteran guys. LA finishes Group D against Comunicaciones in Guatemala on October 21. But it’s about rotating your squad as well. A lot of younger players will play in that game. I picked a team that I thought could get a result today.

Defensive errors were one thing, but the Whitecaps never once genuinely threatened to get a break through of their own and that was partly down to how well their opponents defended and partly down to Christian Dean and Tim Parker being played in the full back roles. I couldn’t really afford to take the risk. They lost. It happens.

“With three hard teams in the group, including ourselves, we knew it would probably be down to winning our home games”.