Vancouver Whitecaps' Ranko Veselinovic, right, stops a pass intended for Seattle Sounders' Raul Ruidiaz during the first half of an MLS soccer match in Vancouver, on Saturday, July 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
VANCOUVER – Yeimar Gomez Andrade scored in stoppage time as the Seattle Sounders scooped up a 3-2 win against the Vancouver Whitecaps at B.C. Place on Saturday night.
Seattle’s Leo Chu had scored a brace as the Sounders (10-7-5) twice rallied to tie Vancouver in the Major League Soccer contest.
Andrade bagged the winner moments after Vancouver’s Mathias Laborda was sent off after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Chu.
Vancouver (6-7-7) opened the scoring in the 24th minute after midfielder Ryan Gauld whipped in a free kick from the left wing and found a rising Ranko Veselinovic who glanced the ball into the bottom corner.
Chu twice found the net, first at the end of a flicked header from Jackson Ragen in the 60th minute and then in a near copy of the first, finding the end of a flicked pass from Nico Lodeiro in the 76th minute.
Gauld put the Whitecaps in the lead once again in the 72nd minute, racing on to a flick from striker Brian White and calmly tucking the ball away.
Gauld had scored four in a row before being held off the scoresheet in the 3-0 loss to Sporting Kansas City on Canada Day.
But Chu struck again, in similar fashion to his first, as Nico Lodeiro headed the ball across to the midfielder who stabbed the ball home in the 76th minute.
Seattle thought they had a chance to tie the match late in the first half only for the referee and VAR to deny their claims for a penalty after back-to-back alleged handballs.
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Vancouver hosts Austin FC on Wednesday, while Seattle heads to California to take on the San Jose Earthquakes.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 8, 2023.
