{"id":2577,"date":"2025-07-17T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2577\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:54:08","slug":"brian-whites-big-game-lifts-vancouver-whitecaps-over-houston-dynamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2577\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian White&#8217;s big game lifts Vancouver Whitecaps over Houston Dynamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Emmanuel Sabbi scored a goal in the fourth minute, Sebastian Berhalter added a goal and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the Houston Dynamo 3-0 on Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yohei Takaoka had two saves and his MLS-high 10th shutout this season for Vancouver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mathias Laborda&#8217;s header from the center of the area, off a ball-in played by \u00c9dier Ocampo, was parried by diving goalkeeper Jonathan Bond but Sabbi blasted a half-volley into the net to open the scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brian White, on the right side of the area, played a pass back to a charging Sebastian Berhalter for a first-touch finish from just outside the penalty box in the 42nd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White had a penalty kick blocked by Bond but tapped in his own rebound to cap the scoring in the 56th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Whitecaps (12-5-5) had lost back-to-back games \u2014 by a combined score of 6-0 \u2014 and four of their last five.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Houston (7-11-5) had 56% possession, though the Dynamo were outshot 14-13, 7-2 on target.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Emmanuel Sabbi scored a goal in the fourth minute, Sebastian Berhalter added a goal and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","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=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}