By:Aaron Campbell (Twitter:@AaCamp81)
2016 Vancouver Whitecaps starting XI
Carl Robinson is ready for the 2016 MLS season to start.
HEAD COACH CARL ROBINSON
Thoughts on this start of the season:
“It’s not nice when you lose games of football. I think we gifted them, Montreal, the win today. That’s an honest assessment. We scored two goals at home and gave three bad goals away, you don’t win games. We’ll give them the three points and we’ll move on.”
Rivero was a man alone on an island at times this game
Rivero is punished for a heavy first touch.
Techera was flying around the pitch.
Welcome to MLS Bolanos
Supporters welcome the new signings
The captain Morales a step behind.
Ousted wanting the play to get started.
Blas Perez gets a quality run in his first Whitecaps game.
Jordan Harvey puts the ball in the back of the net.
Cristian Techera and Pedro Morales talk strategy on a free kick.
Impact goalkeeper Bush makes a huge save off Rivero.
GK Bush On the save on Rivero:
“It was instinctive. I put myself in a spot, as you train to put yourself in, and I was able to react and catch that ball on the line. Unfortunately they had more free headers than we would like them to have, but that’s why you have a goalkeeper there as well.”
Kendall Waston, Morales and Ousted look on in disappointment after Impact scores.
CB KENDALL WASTON
On the first two Montreal goals:
“We’re going to try to do better in the next games, obviously. Sometimes the communication is very important. I think that, even that we tried to keep going, it’s not that easy to be down in the score. We know we have to be sharper, we can be sharper. Last season, we lost our first game, we got to the playoffs. We know that this year we could do it, we have to work harder.”
Another great save from Impact goalkeeper Bush.
GK Bush,On this being the best birthday present ever:
“I suppose so, I will not recount some of the birthday gifts I got, but today to get our first win on the road in Canada during regular season it is huge for the club, huge for us. Compared to the way we started last year, getting the three points on the road it is huge.”
Ousted makes a huge save to keep the Whitecaps in the game.
MATCH DETAILS
Budweiser Man of the Match: Jordan Harvey
Referee: Ismail Elfath
Attendance: 22,120
Scoring Summary
19’ – MTL – Ignacio Piatti (Harry Shipp)
42’ – MTL – Dominic Oduro (Ignacio Piatti)
45’ – VAN – Jordan Harvey (Pedro Morales)
88’ – MTL – Ignacio Piatti (Dominic Oduro)
90’ + 3’ – VAN – Kendall Waston (Christian Bolaños)
Stats
Shots: Vancouver 21 – Montreal 11
Shots on Goal: Vancouver 10 – Montreal 5
Saves: Vancouver 2 – Montreal 8
Fouls: Vancouver 12 – Montreal 11
Offsides: Vancouver 0 – Montreal 2
Corners: Vancouver 10 – Montreal 2
Cautions
45’ – MTL – Ambroise Oyongo
62’ – VAN – Christian Bolaños
77’ – VAN – Fraser Aird
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
1.David Ousted; 8.Fraser Aird, 4.Kendall Waston, 26.Tim Parker, 2.Jordan Harvey; 15.Matías Laba, 38.Kianz Froese (27.Blas Pérez 66‘); 7.Christian Bolaños, 77.Pedro Morales, 13.Cristian Techera (23.Kekuta Manneh 61‘); 29.Octavio Rivero (9.Masato Kudo 81‘)
Substitutes not used
70.Paolo Tornaghi, 3.Sam Adekugbe, 20.Deybi Flores, 44.Pa-Modou Kah
Montreal Impact
1.Evan Bush; 25.Donny Toia, 36.Victor Cabrera, 23.Laurent Ciman, 2.Ambroise Oyongo; 29.Eric Alexander, 33.Marco Donadel (16.Calum Mallace 56’); 32.Lucas Ontivero (24.Anthony Jackson-Hamel 53’), 10.Igacio Piatti ©, 14.Harry Shipp; 7.Dominic Oduro (6.Hassoun Camara ’90 + 1’)
Substitutes not used
22.Eric Kronberg, 5.Wandrille Lefevre, 18.Kyle Bekker, 51.Maxim Tissot
