ORLANDO, FL \u2013 It was a dramatic evening in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, as Vancouver Whitecaps FC came from behind to defeat Orlando City SC 2-1 with a Thomas M\u00fcller goal in the dying seconds.<\/p>\n
Both teams came out with a lot of energy, trying to get an early goal.<\/p>\n
M\u00fcller came close to opening the scoring in the 10th minute, after being teed up by Daniel R\u00edos on the edge of the box, but his shot was well-saved by Orlando goalkeeper Pedro Gallese.<\/p>\n
R\u00edos had his own chance moments later, after he found some space in the box, but the forward was tackled before he could pull the trigger.<\/p>\n
Orlando City broke the deadlock in the 25th minute, Dagur Dan Thorhallsson fired a shot inside the box to make it 1-0. M\u00fcller almost got Whitecaps FC back on level terms just after the half-hour mark, with his half-volley on the edge of the box skipping off the floor and forcing Gallese to make a full stretch save.<\/p>\n
\u00c9dier Ocampo had a great cross into the box minutes later, trying to find Emmanuel Sabbi who was coming across the face of goal, but the cross was cleared before it could find the American. Ocampo had another chance to create an equalizer, with another drilled cross into the six-yard box that just skipped past Sabbi. Soon after, R\u00edos was found in-behind the Orlando defence outside the box, but Gallese did well to come out and smother the ball before the Mexican could get an effort on goal.<\/p>\n
Whitecaps FC were camped in Orlando\u2019s end throughout the first half, but had to go into the break with some work to do.<\/p>\n
The ‘Caps kept battling hard in this second half, pushing Orlando further and further into their own half. The \u2018Caps increased the pressure, with Ocampo nearly creating an own goal with 20 minutes to go. The Colombian drilled a cross that went off an Orlando defender and smashed against the crossbar, with M\u00fcller then trying to go for an acrobatic bicycle kick in the ensuing play, but his effort went just wide of the mark.<\/p>\n
J.C. Ngando tried his luck fresh off the bench in the 75th minute, firing from distance but Gallese was equal to it with another stretching save.<\/p>\n
Whitecaps FC finally scored their equalizer through Nelson Pierre in the 81st minute. Berhalter fired a vicious strike that ricocheted off the post, before Ryan Gauld tried to follow-up. An Orlando defender got in the way but his clearance bounced off the thigh of Pierre and into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
With the tying goal in hand, the \u2018Caps searched for the winner, with Ocampo firing a low shot towards goal that was smothered by Gallese.<\/p>\n
Gauld then tried to chip the \u2018keeper from the right side of the box after being found in space, but his shot ended up over the net.<\/p>\n
The ‘Caps came agonizingly close to scoring the winning goal after Berhalter lasered a ball towards the near post, but Gallese collected the ball and seemingly rolled over the line, but it was deemed to be no goal from the officiating crew.<\/p>\n
However, the \u2018Caps would not stay down and would score an incredible winner through M\u00fcller. The German slalomed his way to the edge of the box before he drilled a powerful low shot into the bottom right corner, giving Whitecaps FC a vital three points and putting them back into the top spot in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n
Whitecaps FC are back in action for their final regular season match on MLS Decision Day, battling FC Dallas on Saturday, October 18 at BC Place for a chance to finish the season at the top of the Western Conference. Kickoff is at 6 p.m. PT. For tickets, visit whitecapsfc.com\/tickets<\/a>. Playoff tickets are also now on sale. For more information, go to whitecapsfc.com\/playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Attendance: 23,465 Scoring Summary Statistics Cautions Orlando City SC Substitutes not used Vancouver Whitecaps FC Substitutes not used
Referee: Sergii Boiko<\/p>\n
25\u2019 \u2013 ORL \u2013 Dagur Dan Thorhallsson
81\u2019 \u2013 VAN \u2013 Nelson Pierre
90\u2019+7 \u2013 VAN \u2013 Thomas M\u00fcller (Ryan Gauld)<\/p>\n
Possession: ORL 35.1% – VAN 64.8%
Shots: ORL 3 – VAN 23
Shots on Goal: ORL 2 – VAN 9
Saves: ORL 7 – VAN 1
Fouls: ORL 8 – VAN 13
Offsides: ORL 2 – VAN 2
Corners: ORL 1 – VAN 6<\/p>\n
15\u2019 \u2013 ORL \u2013 Rodrigo Schlegel
77\u2019 \u2013 ORL \u2013 Iv\u00e1n Angulo
90\u2019+9 \u2013 ORL \u2013 Kyle Smith<\/p>\n
1.Pedro Gallese; 17.Dagur Dan Thorhallsson, 15.Rodrigo Schlegel, 6.Robin Jansson (13.Duncan McGuire 18\u2019) (96.Zakaria Taifi 86\u2019), 21.Adrian Mar\u00edn; 11.Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez (23.Shakur Mohammad 90’+1), 24.Kyle Smith, 20.Eduard Atuesta, 77.Iv\u00e1n Angulo; 9.Luis Muriel, 10.Mart\u00edn Ojeda<\/p>\n
99.Carlos Mercado, 36.Titus Sandy Jr., 68.Thomas Williams, 95.Favian Loyola<\/p>\n
1.Yohei Takaoka; 18.\u00c9dier Ocampo, 12.Belal Halbouni, 2.Math\u00edas Laborda, 28.Tate Johnson; 16.Sebastian Berhalter, 6.Ralph Priso; 59.Jeevan Badwal (26.J.C. Ngando 74\u2019), 13.Thomas M\u00fcller \u00a9, 11.Emmanuel Sabbi (25.Ryan Gauld 66\u2019); 14.Daniel R\u00edos (42.Nelson Pierre 74\u2019)<\/p>\n
32.Isaac Boehmer, 50.Max Anchor, 27.Giuseppe Bovalina, 53.Mark O\u2019Neill, 97.Liam Mackenzie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, FL \u2013 It was a dramatic evening in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, as Vancouver Whitecaps FC came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,97169,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-207377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-orlvsvan-10-11-2025","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}