{"id":506826,"date":"2026-03-01T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:27:08","slug":"thomas-muller-brian-white-yohei-takaoka-lead-whitecaps-to-victory-over-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506826\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas M\u00fcller, Brian White, Yohei Takaoka lead Whitecaps to victory over Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Thomas M\u00fcller scored twice and Brian White added a goal in a 22-minute span of the first half and Yohei Takaoka finished with a second straight clean sheet in the Vancouver Whitecaps\u2019 3-0 victory over Toronto FC on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">M\u00fcller ignited the Whitecaps with a penalty-kick goal in the 25th minute, then made it 2-0 with a goal 12 minutes later. White capped the scoring two minutes into stoppage time with an unassisted netter. It was White\u2019s 80th career goal for Vancouver in all competitions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">M\u00fcller\u2019s PK came after Toronto\u2019s Walker Zimmerman fouled Aziel Jackson. His second goal came with assists from Mathias Laborda and Sebastian Berhalter in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Takaoka finished with three saves for the Whitecaps (2-0-0) \u2014 one-week after a two-save effort led to a 1-0 victory over visiting Real Salt Lake to begin the season. Jackson scored the lone goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Luka Gavran saved two shots for Toronto in his 18th career start. Toronto lost 3-2 to FC Dallas in its opener, beginning with two road matches for a fourth straight season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Whitecaps are 5-0-4 in their last nine matchups with Toronto, which hasn\u2019t won in Vancouver since March 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vancouver: At Portland Timbers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto: At FC Cincinnati on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Thomas M\u00fcller scored twice and Brian White added a goal in a 22-minute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-506826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506826","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=506826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}