Vancouver Whitecaps 2, Portland Timbers 1
BC Place, Vancouver BC
With the Vancouver Whitecaps departing superstar Alfonzo Davies delivering with a double for his team to come with the win in the final match of the campaign and sweep the Portland Timbers in their 2018 series.
For the Caps utmost of prodigies from its academies, his departure to one of Germany’s top rated squads in Bayern Munich shows off the success the Vancouver squad is having with its Home Grown Player program.
Still this match when the Portland Timbers looking forward a win and results from other matches from its conference foes already qualified in the postseason, that in the end the loss keeps them in fifth place and a series against FC Dallas.
For this match Giovanni Savarese and company were riding on an all-time momentum after back-to-back wins over Real Salt Lake that gave his Portland squad the postseason pass, but looking at any cost the win over their Cascadia foes.
However for manager Savarese putting in the field all of his second string squad and giving some rest to his starters for these to be ready for their upcoming postseason adventure, this squad sure did its job but unable to contain an inspired Phonzie.
Contrary to Gios decision was the one taken by interim Caps manager Craig Dalrymple sending his best initial eleven in a memorable match for the Whitecaps supporters accompanied by an emotive farewell to one of its top rated HGP.
For this match Gio put on the field a 4-2-3-1 formation and with the novelty of seeing the return of Jeff Attinella that lately plagued by a series of annoying injuries that has left him out of the initial eleven.
In addition, of seeing Marco Farfan in the starting, eleven with Julio Cascante, Bill Tuiloma and Alva’s Powell accompanied in the middle by Lawrence Olum and Cristhian Paredes these despite the errors defensively; in the end, these did their part.
in the offensive attack with Samuel Armenteros in the lone attack accompanied by Lucas Melano, Andres Flores and Dairon Aspirilla, as the Colombian was the responsible of the assist of Portland lone goal.
Not bad for a group of players not involved regularly in the course of the campaign but when these are called at least can provide, but not tonight when Phonzie first goal taking with him the likes of Tuiloma to score a beauty of a goal.
As the local Caps opened the score in the 28’ minute three minutes passed by when a mistake by Marco Farfan handed to Davis and the man delivered the second and go-ahead goal of the afternoon and to the frenzy of a sold out BC Place.
For Gio Savarese he is a man that in the course of this campaign has shown its boldness for his one of a kind moves he has implemented to his squad and today was the ideal time to do it and expose more of his nonstarters to some playing time.
Very well seeing how he and his side fare well against a stellar lineup put in by Vancouver that stood its ground in the course of the game and play at times a prolific one on one despite the early scores that easily prevented.
Despite of the moves with Sebastian Blanco, Andy Polo and Jeremy Ebobisse in the end the Timbers via nice filtered pass from Dairon Aspirilla that a well situated Andres Flores push to cut the lead but a little too late as time ran off.
For the Vancouver Whitecaps to watch the postseason at home contrary to the Portland Timbers that are to travel to the Big D and face off in the knockout round a hardened and tough FC Dallas in Toyota Park in Frisco, Texas.
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