Major Soccer League 2022 Houston Dynamo Vancouver Whitecaps

13 mars 2022

PNC Stadium Houston

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The Houston Dynamo return home to PNC Stadium this weekend to welcome the Vancouver Whitecaps to town. The Dynamo are coming off a 1-0 loss in Kansas City while Vancouver are on the heels of a 0-0 draw with New York City FC in their home opener last weekend. Both Houston and Vancouver have yet to find the back of the net in 2022. Can someone get score their first goal this season? Club legend Ricardo Clark will be back on the sidelines in Houston. The former midfielder is now an assistant coach with the Vancouver Whitecaps. Clark ranks second in club history in apperances, starts, and minutes played. 

He joined the Whitecaps staff last season after previously serving as a coach in the Dynamo Academy for the U16 and U19 teams. The Dynamo currently have the fourth best defense in Major League Soccer based on expected goals against (xGA). Houston has 0.50 xGA through the first two games according to data from Second Spectrum. Tim Parker and Daniel Steres have been solid in the center of defense and Adam Lundkvist has had a strong start to the season at left back. Right back has now seen three players get minutes in Griffin Dorsey, Zarek Valentin, and new arrival Zeca. Teenage Hadebe will be looking to crack the starting lineup soon, but regardless, whoever is on the back four along with Steve Clark will need to keep up the solid play to keep Houston in matches with a chance to win.

Two matches, one point, zero goals. That’s where the Whitecaps stand heading into Week 3, with a clash against the likely-improved-but-still-not-a-powerhouse Houston on the docket Saturday afternoon. Yes, another afternoon game, quite the adjustment from past years. The biggest storyline coming into this match is how the ‘Caps have been firing blanks on the offensive end through the first 180 minutes of play. There were brief flashes in the home opener, but the ‘Caps were not dominant by any means and the visitors did have the better chances overall.

 There has been a lack of cohesion in the attacking third to this point, with the feeling at times that the only plan is to pump the ball up to one of the front three and hope that they can do something with it. The two Cristians, Gutiérrez and Dajome, were able to get involved sometimes (with Gutiérrez perhaps the closest of any ‘Cap to scoring against NYCFC) but there wasn’t a sense of controlled play for the most part. The change to the lineup that’s most likely to happen this Saturday is the insertion of Brian White back into the starting XI. He didn’t make much of an impression in his substitute appearance last weekend, but given his form last season and the fact that it was his first action of 2022 he’ll have more of a leash to get himself involved in the early going here. If fully fit.