Vancouver Whitecaps vs Seattle Sounders — Major League Soccer: stats, lineups & analysis
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- Half-time3 – 0
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- 53′Vancouver Whitecaps, goal:4–0assist
- 62′Seattle Sounders, goal:4–1assist
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- 69′Vancouver Whitecaps, goal:5–1assist
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- 78′Seattle Sounders, substitution:off
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- Full-time5 – 1
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Vancouver Whitecaps rout Seattle Sounders 5-1 at BC Place
Vancouver Whitecaps beat Seattle Sounders 5-1 at BC Place on Matchday 33 of Major League Soccer, with the result lifting them from third to second in the table. Brian White scored after one minute, Bruno Caicedo supplying the pass, and Ryan Gauld doubled the lead in the ninth minute from an Édier Ocampo assist.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
Seattle were three behind by the interval. Mathías Laborda made it 3-0 in the 43rd minute, converting a Gauld assist, and White added his second eight minutes after the restart, again set up by Caicedo, to make it 4-0 in the 53rd minute.
Jordan Morris pulled one back for the visitors in the 62nd minute, Albert Rusnák providing the pass, but Aleksa Cvetković restored the four-goal margin in the 70th minute from a Cheikh Sabaly assist. Vancouver finished with 18 shots to 13, nine of them on target to Seattle's five, even though Seattle had 52 per cent of possession.
Seattle stay 18th on 43 points, 18 behind Vancouver on 61. Vancouver travel to CF Montreal in Major League Soccer on Saturday, while Seattle host Los Angeles FC in the same competition.
Brian White scored twice, in the first and 53rd minutes, and was the top-rated player on the pitch with 8.88. Ryan Gauld laid on two goals, for Gauld's own assist to Laborda and a goal of his own, to earn a rating of 8.69.
Vancouver put nine of their 18 shots on target, against five from 13 for Seattle.
Vancouver Whitecaps beat Seattle Sounders 5–1 (half-time 3–0).
Vancouver Whitecaps met Seattle Sounders in the Major League Soccer (Regular Season - 33). Kick-off was Sunday, 1 November 2026, 20:30 UTC at BC Place. Referee: Alexis Da Silva. Attendance: 32,111.
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Key moments
- 1' Goal: Brian White (assist: Bruno Caicedo) — 1–0 · Watch Brian White's goal video (1')
- 9' Goal: Ryan Gauld (assist: Édier Ocampo) — 2–0 · Watch Ryan Gauld's goal video (9')
- 43' Goal: Mathías Laborda (assist: Ryan Gauld) — 3–0 · Watch Mathías Laborda's goal video (43')
- 53' Goal: Brian White (assist: Bruno Caicedo) — 4–0 · Watch Brian White's goal video (53')
- 62' Goal: Jordan Morris (assist: Albert Rusnák) — 4–1 · Watch Jordan Morris's goal video (62')
- 69' Goal: Aleksa Cvetković (assist: Cheikh Sabaly) — 5–1 · Watch Aleksa Cvetković's goal video (69')
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Vancouver Whitecaps (4-2-3-1)
Seattle Sounders (4-2-3-1)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Vancouver Whitecaps 62%, the draw 24%, Seattle Sounders 14%. It finished Vancouver Whitecaps 5–1 Seattle Sounders.
Stronger Vancouver lead, helped by home edge — Our strength rating puts Vancouver Whitecaps 100 points clear of Seattle Sounders, 1585 to 1485, and home sides across Major League Soccer do better than the global norm, so we give Vancouver 62%. The draw starts at the usual 25% for a gap this size and dips slightly to 24% because both teams' recent games average 2.9 goals.
Why Vancouver Whitecaps at 62%?
Vancouver Whitecaps sit 100 points higher on our strength rating — 1585 to 1485. Sides with a 80–160-point rating edge at home won 56.5% of 14,375 such games. Major League Soccer home sides out-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to away wins (25.7% vs 30.0%). Major League Soccer homes won 49.1% of 5,291 games vs 44.6% across all 108,290 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. The 300 most similar past games finished 56–24–20.
Why only 62%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 62% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 24% and Seattle Sounders at 14%.
Why the draw at 24%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 25.0%. These teams' recent games average 2.9 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 24.8% of 27,278.
What did we measure but not count?
Out: Andrés Cubas, an important player, and Emmanuel Sabbi, a rotation player. This does not change our forecast yet: we are still measuring how much missing players like these cost a team. Vancouver Whitecaps won 3 of the last 6 meetings with Seattle Sounders. The record is 3 wins for Vancouver Whitecaps, 2 draws and 1 win for Seattle Sounders. These were 6 Major League Soccer games played at both grounds between 21 April 2024 and 17 August 2026. Latest meeting: 17 August 2026 — Seattle Sounders 0–2 Vancouver Whitecaps. In 5,567 historical matches between similarly rated teams, home sides with the stronger head-to-head record won 44.0%.
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About this match
On this page: the Vancouver Whitecaps vs Seattle Sounders final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Major League Soccer fixture.
- Who scored and when — a goal-by-goal timeline of the match.
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- Watch Brian White's goal against Seattle Sounders (1').
- Watch Ryan Gauld's goal against Seattle Sounders (9').
- Watch Mathías Laborda's goal against Seattle Sounders (43').
- Watch Brian White's goal against Seattle Sounders (53').
- Watch Jordan Morris's goal against Vancouver Whitecaps (62').
- Watch Aleksa Cvetković's goal against Seattle Sounders (69').
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