White’s goal lifts Whitecaps to 1-0 victory over Timbers

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Brian White scored in the second half and the Vancouver Whitecaps edged the Portland Timbers 1-0 on Saturday night in a Cascadia Cup matchup.

White broke a scoreless tie when he took a pass from Julian Gressel and scored in the 74th minute.

The Whitecaps’ Simon Belcher was held without a goal. He was trying to become the fifth player in league history to score in each of his first four matches.

Vancouver (2-2-3) had a 13-2 advantage in shots and a 9-0 advantage in shots on goal.

Yohei Takaoka earned the clean sheet for the Whitecaps without making a save. Aljaz Ivacic had eight saves for the Timbers (1-4-2).

The Timbers still sport a 7-6-2 record at Vancouver, the most wins they have at an away venue.

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Portland returns home to host the Seattle Sounders on Saturday.

WHITECAPS 1, TIMBERS 0

Portland 0 0—0

Vancouver 0 1—1

First Half—None.

Second Half—1, Vancouver, White, 2 (Gressel), 74th minute.

Goalies—Portland, Aljaz Ivacic, Hunter Sulte; Vancouver, Yohei Takaoka, Thomas Hasal.

Yellow Cards—Blackmon, Vancouver, 39th; Zuparic, Portland, 48th; Moreno, Portland, 53rd; White, Vancouver, 90th; Ayala, Portland, 90th+1; Berhalter, Vancouver, 90th+3.

Referee—Nima Saghafi. Assistant Referees—Lyes Arfa, Stefan Tanaka-Freundt, Daniel Radford. 4th Official—Jeffrey Swartzel.

Lineups:

Portland—Aljaz Ivacic; Zac McGraw, Eric Miller, Juan David Mosquera (Nathan Uiliam Fogaca, 81st), Justin Rasmussen, Dario Zuparic; Diego Chara, Santiago Moreno (David Ayala, 77th); Dairon Asprilla (Franck Boli, 66th), Diego Gutierrez (Evander, 46th), Tega Ikoba (Jaroslaw Niezgoda, 46th).

Vancouver—Yohei Takaoka; Ali Ahmed (Deiber Caicedo, 82nd), Tristan Blackmon, Julian Gressel, Mathias Laborda, Luis Martins (Javain Brown, 82nd), Ranko Veselinovic; Andres Cubas (Sebastian Berhalter, 28th), Ryan Gauld, Pedro Vite (Cristian Dajome, 82nd); Simon Becher (Brian White, 66th).