CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Pavel Bucha scored two goals Wednesday night to help FC Cincinnati beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-3. <\/p>\n
Evander Da Silva Ferreira \u2014 known simply as \u201cEvander\u201d \u2014 added a goal and an assist for Cincinnati and Kevin Denkey also scored a goal. Roman Celentano had three saves for Cincinnati (6-5-5). <\/p>\n
Evander scored on the counterattack to give Cincinnati a 3-2 lead in the 36th minute. As the defence raced back to set up, Evander paused just outside the top of the penalty box and blasted a shot off the left post for his 10th goal this season. <\/p>\n
The Whitecaps (10-3-2) played for the first time since before the World Cup break after their game at Chicago, which had originally been scheduled for Thursday, was postponed until Oct. 6 due to poor air quality in the area. <\/p>\n
Bucha opened the scoring in the ninth minute and scored again in the 56th. Evander, from near the penalty spot, lofted a ball to the right post where a charging Bucha slammed home a first-touch finish to give Cincinnati a 4-2 lead in the 56th minute. <\/p>\n
Denkey scored when his header ricocheted off defender Tate Johnson into the net in the 28th to make it 2-2. <\/p>\n
Whitecaps midfielder Jeevan Badwal put away a first-touch shot \u2014 his first goal of the season (the second of his career) \u2014 off a cross played into the area by Bruno Caicedo in the 12th minute. <\/p>\n
Captain Ryan Gauld added goals in the 25th and 58th minutes in his season debut. Yohei Takaoka had two saves for the Whitecaps.<\/p>\n
Gauld missed the first 14 games of the regular season while recovering from knee surgery. Badwal of Surrey, B.C., recorded an assist for a second straight match after an assist at San Diego.<\/p>\n
Up next: <\/p>\n
Whitecaps: Visit Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati: Visit Columbus on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Pavel Bucha scored two goals Wednesday night to help FC Cincinnati beat the Vancouver Whitecaps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-820136","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\/820136","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=820136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}