This was the year the Whitecaps were supposed to take that next great step, the move up the ladder. “I don’t want to say the (goal) was the final shot, because we kept into the game and we had even other chances after that … but of course, it puts our spirit very down because we realized that it was almost impossible (to come back.”
“I just spoke to the guys there’s of course a lot of disappointment, there’s a lot of sadness, there’s a lot of heaviness in the locker room but I told them that if we didn’t make it, it’s not (because of) today,” said head coach Vanni Sartini, lamenting the team’s 1-6-1 start to the season. The record will show the Whitecaps finished the season in ninth place, and out of the playoffs for the fourth time in the last five years.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. And even at halftime, still trailing by one, there was hope. They kept hope alive, even when Franco Fragapane put the home side up 1-0 just 17 minutes into, taking advantage of an uncharacteristic turnover from Andres Cubas, the team’s most reliable midfielder. They watched their team pull - nay, claw - itself out of its own deep, self-dug grave with three straight excellent performances, then wondered as all the improbable and unlikely results elsewhere clicked into place to put them in the drivers’ seat heading into Decision Day.Īll they had to do is beat Minnesota United FC, a team that had been swirling around the toilet bowl the past six weeks with an unfortunately-timed six-game winless streak.Īll they had to do was score, and it would have heaped even more pressure on a team that had plummeted from the heights of third place in the West. The next issue of Canucks Report will soon be in your inbox. If you don’t see it, please check your junk folder.
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