{"id":193918,"date":"2026-04-12T02:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193918\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:18:13","slug":"whitecaps-extend-best-start-in-club-history-beat-nycfc-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193918\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitecaps extend best start in club history, beat NYCFC 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathias Laborda and Brian White each scored a goal on Saturday, Yohei Takaoka had his fourth shutout of the season, and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat New York City FC 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitecaps (6-1-0) are off to their best start in club history (MLS era).<\/p>\n<p>Matt Freese had eight saves for NYCFC (3-2-2).<\/p>\n<p>Laborda opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Sebastian Berhalter played an arcing free kick to the center of the area and Laborda put away a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLSes\/status\/2043125179090374763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">leaping volley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Berhalter leads the team with nine goal contributions (four goals, five assists) this season.<\/p>\n<p>White flicked home a diving header, off an entry pass played by Bruno Caicedo, to cap the scoring in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Whitecaps outshot NYCFC 23-12, 10-2 on target.<\/p>\n<p>The teams played for the first time since a 1-1 tie on Sept. 2, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver went into the game leading MLS in goals scored with 17, while New York City (14) was tied with Dallas for second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathias Laborda and Brian White each scored a goal on Saturday, Yohei Takaoka had his fourth shutout of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6497,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-193918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-major-league-soccer","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}