{"id":9918,"date":"2025-06-09T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/?p=9918"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:24:21","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-defeat-seattle-sounders-3-0-despite-illness-and-call-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/vancouver-whitecaps-defeat-seattle-sounders-3-0-despite-illness-and-call-ups","title":{"rendered":"Whitecaps Defeat Sounders 3-0 Despite Illness and Call-Ups, Set New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/jeevan-badwal-celebrates-his-first-goal-with-teammates-against-the-seattle-sounders-during-2025-mls-season.jpg\" alt=\"Jeevan Badwal celebrates his first goal with teammates against the Seattle Sounders during 2025 MLS season\" class=\"wp-image-9919\" style=\"width:300px\" title=\"Vancouver Whitecaps Defeat Seattle Sounders 3-0 Despite Illness and Call-Ups, Set New Unbeaten Record\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Vancouver Whitecaps extended their unbeaten MLS streak to 11 games on games, reaching a new a club record.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jesper Sorensen\u2019s team defeated the Seattle Sounders 3-0 win despite missing nine players and dealing with a squad-wide illness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeevan Badwal scored his first MLS goal, while Seattle finished the match with just nine men after two red cards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With a <strong>decimated lineup by international call-ups and illness<\/strong> sweeping through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/soccer\">soccer<\/a> team and disrupting training all week, the <strong>Vancouver Whitecaps went against all odds<\/strong> and shut down the Seattle Sounders with a 3-0 win at BC Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"new-club-record-11-unbeaten-games\">New Club Record: 11 Unbeaten Games&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>I think that the players, what they did today, was exceptional<\/em>\u201d said head coach <strong>Jesper Sorensen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result pushed <strong>Vancouver\u2019s unbeaten streak in MLS to 11 games<\/strong>, a new club record, as they improved to 10-1-5 on the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just days before kickoff, even playing the game was in doubt. <strong>Nine players were already away on international duty when a stomach virus spread through the team<\/strong> following their trip to Mexico City for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/cruz-azul-crushes-vancouver-whitecaps-5-0-wins-7th-concacaf-title\">CONCACAF Champions Cup final<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nearly half of the 75 players and staff on the flight back fell ill<\/strong>, and it wasn\u2019t until Saturday morning, the day before the match, that the team could hold a proper training session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"ranko-veselinovic-it-was-tough\">Ranko Veselinovic: \u201cIt Was Tough\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It was tough. Honestly, we didn&#8217;t know (Saturday) afternoon whether we were going to have game or no\u2026 We all have our routines, and it\u2019s hard to do something when you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. But we managed to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven starters were officially listed as questionable, and the club had to call up seven Whitecaps FC 2 players on short-term deals to fill out the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the dominant result, Sorensen made it clear he still believed the game shouldn\u2019t have gone ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I would have preferred this game not to be played. I don\u2019t think everything is perfect. I was very concerned about the players\u2019 health.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Whitecaps weathered a shaky first half and struck in the 40th minute when 19-year-old <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jeevanbadwal_\">Jeevan Badwal<\/a><\/strong> redirected a pass into the net for his first MLS goal, right in front of a cheering section full of family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Slots it in like a vet. \ud83c\udfaf Jeevan Badwal officially secures his first as a \u2018Cap. <br><br>\ud83d\udcfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/702Uz1sfsF\">https:\/\/t.co\/702Uz1sfsF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VWFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VWFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VANvSEA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VANvSEA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qs0VqVyCwu\">pic.twitter.com\/Qs0VqVyCwu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vancouver Whitecaps FC (@WhitecapsFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhitecapsFC\/status\/1931893602176946376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second half, <strong>two quick red cards reduced Seattle to nine men<\/strong>. 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