The Seattle Sounders fell 2-0 to the Vancouver Whitecaps at Lumen Field on Sunday night behind second-half goals from Rayan Elloumi and Thomas M\u00fcller.<\/p>\n
After a shotless opening half-hour, Snyder Brunell<\/a> had the first quality look for either team when he pounced on a flicked-on ball in the box off a Vancouver turnover but rattled the side of the net.<\/p>\n Seattle was dealt another injury blow in the 36th minute when Jes\u00fas Ferreira<\/a> went down with a leg injury.<\/p>\n Whitecaps forward M\u00fcller nearly opened the scoring in the 40th minute when he volleyed a corner kick that was destined for goal, but Paul Rothrock<\/a> used his body to clear it off the line where it deflected off goalkeeper Andrew Thomas<\/a> and away to safety.<\/p>\n M\u00fcller had another opportunity from the top of the box in the 52nd minute, but his shot was straight at Thomas.<\/p>\n The Sounders had a golden opportunity in the 54th minute when Rothrock whipped a ball across the face of goal, but it was just ahead of the run of Danny Musovski<\/a> and behind the run of Albert Rusn\u00e1k<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vancouver found a go-ahead goal in the 77th minute when Emmanuel Sabbi drove down the left flank, cut inside and then dinked a through ball to Elloumi, who finished past Thomas at the far post.<\/p>\n The Whitecaps doubled their lead in the 82nd minute when M\u00fcller hammered home a rare indirect free kick inside the Sounders\u2019 box that hit the inside of the far post and bounced in.<\/p>\n The Sounders finish the evening 11th in the Western Conference with 24 points from 18 matches (7-8-3).<\/p>\n \n THREE TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n The Sounders dropped their seventh consecutive match in league play, the longest in their MLS history.<\/p>\n \u2018Caps keep Cascadia title<\/p>\n The Whitecaps retain their Cascadia Cup title with nine points through three Cascadia matches.<\/p>\n The Sounders are back home on Wednesday when they welcome Austin FC to Lumen Field (6:30 p.m. PT; Apple TV<\/a> | **TICKETS**<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Sounders fell 2-0 to the Vancouver Whitecaps at Lumen Field on Sunday night behind second-half goals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[336,477,16251,116,7323,54566,95],"class_list":["post-170609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-336","tag-match-recap","tag-mls-regular-season","tag-news","tag-seattle-sounders-fc","tag-seavsvan-08-16-2026","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}