Whitecaps hope to continue climb 'at home' against Dyanmo
While Toronto FC and CF Montreal returned home this past 週末 to play games in Canada for the first time this season, the Vancouver Whitecaps have not yet been 認可するd to do so 予定 to coronavirus 制限s.
The Whitecaps (3-7-3, 12 points) will play the Houston Dynamo (3-4-6, 15 points) on Tuesday night in their home away from home, Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah.
"We just need to go 支援する home. Sports shouldn't be like that. No sports team should go through that in any way," said Whitecaps coach Marc Dos Santos, whose team has been based in Orlando, Fla., Portland, 鉱石., and Utah since the pandemic の近くにd the U.S.-Canada 国境 早期に last season. "Maybe I'm wrong -- I don't know what nature has (in 蓄える／店) -- but I 疑問 that soon we'll go through a 状況／情勢 like that again in sport."
The Whitecaps snapped an eight-game winless streak and escaped the Western 会議／協議会 cellar with a 2-1 victory against the visiting Los Angeles 星雲 on Saturday night. Deiber Caicedo and Cristian Dajome 得点する／非難する／２０d second-half goals as the Whitecaps 決起大会／結集させるd.
The Dynamo have been idle because of the international break since a 2-0 loss at Seattle on July 7. That snapped a streak of four 連続した draws for Houston.
Defender Teenage Hadebe, a native of Zimbabwe, is likely to make his debut with the Dynamo after joining the team two weeks ago as its newest 指定するd player.
"We think it's time," Dynamo coach Tab Ramos said of the 25-year-old Hadebe. "明白に, he hasn't played for two months now, but at some point, we have to start throwing him in, and why not now? He's as ready as he's going to be without playing games."
The teams have met once this season, with the Dynamo coming away with a 2-1 victory at home on May 22. 覚え書き Rodriguez and Maximiliano Urruti 得点する／非難する／２０d in the first half for Houston, before Caidedo 一致するd in the 80th minute for Vancouver.
--Field Level マスコミ
