Vancouver Whitecaps handed first MLS defeat of 2026 by San Jose Earthquakes<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cReally disappointing,\u201d Priso said when asked for his overall thoughts on how Saturday\u2019s match played out. \u201cIt\u2019s important to pick up points at home, and I think it\u2019s a game where it\u2019s more about us and not the opponent. I don\u2019t think they beat us today, credit to them they take the three points, but I think we more did it to ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Priso was also adamant that playing so much football over the past few weeks with the Champions Cup did not impact their play in Saturday\u2019s MLS clash, saying that his team wanted to move on in the continental competition and would not use that as an excuse had they advanced past the Sounders either.<\/p>\n
Whitecaps head coach Jesper S\u00f8rensen echoed Priso\u2019s sentiments. He believed that his side\u2019s second half was better than the first, and that they got into the situations they wanted to find themselves in, saying \u201cwe had our chances but did not take them.\u201d<\/p>\n
S\u00f8rensen also said that his side needs to be better when teams sit back and defend in a low block, which San Jose did in the second half in particular as they looked to hold on to their 1-0 advantage. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to have the right timing in how to do it, we have to have the right decision-making in the last part and how to break them down,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019ve faced now a couple of times and we\u2019re gonna face a lot more because we\u2019ll play high up the pitch in many games against many opponents. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be something that we have to go back to the training ground and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n
With an extra week between matches due to the international break, the Whitecaps boss will have a chance to iron out some of the kinks and make sure his team is ready for another west coast rivalry match against Portland Timbers at home on April 4. The Whitecaps beat the Timbers 4-1 in Portland on March 7.<\/p>\n
Several of Vancouver\u2019s key players will away from the group for the next week, though \u2014 including Priso with Canada, Sebastian Berhalter with the United States, Andr\u00e9s Cubas with Paraguay and Kenji Cabrera with Peru. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Whitecaps suffered their first MLS defeat of the season on Saturday night, losing 1-0 at home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7332,11203,100,106054,88,90,89,43407],"class_list":["post-234172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-mls","tag-news","tag-ralph-priso","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-vancouver-whitecaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}