The Good:
Pedro Morales
Vote for Pedro, Pedro for mayor, Captain Pedro. Most exciting sports figure in Vancouver in any sport in over a decade. His touch with the ball is second to none in MLS. His passing ability is classes above that of any other Whitecaps player on the roster.
He is Mr. Automatic on penalty kicks and had four or five other great chances to give the Whitecaps the win. The ability of the players around Morales has to improve. The owners have to open their wallets and bring in a player of his calibre to play with him.
How he wasn't picked as a MLS All Star is mind boggling. I know Vancouver fans have been voicing their opinion about sending Whitecaps to the All Star game since Jay DeMerit was forced to play the whole 90 minutes in 2012 and his play drop in the games following. That being said how is he not a top four mid fielder in MLS?
The Average:
Darren Mattocks
3 goals in 3 games: good, great hustle: okay, 3 misses versus Dallas that could have won the game: bad. A great, an okay and a bad makes Mattocks average.
Great finish on an amazing pass by Gershon Koffie. Just flew by the defenders and put it into the back of the net.
Had three huge misses during the rest of the game. Could have easily won the game for the Whitecaps.
He also has to stop whining to the refs about non calls. Numerous times he stopped running, waved his hands in the air and waited for the ref to make a call that didn't happen. He needs to play to a whistle and stop expecting calls to go his way.
The Bad:
Carlyle Mitchell
What a shitty game by Mitchell. Was out of position on the first goal on the goal line. He was on the line next to Ousted but he should have been against the post. In the hectic scramble he was a foot off the post and the ball went between him and the post. That one was forgivable.
The second goal was 100% his fault and Ousted let know it was as soon as it happened. You can see Ousted calling for the ball as soon as the cross by the Dallas player sent it towards the box. Mitchell had a chance to clear it without it hitting his arm. This will be a play that the coaching staff talks to Mitchell about pointing out his mistake.
Then near the end of the game he deflects the ball and Ousted had to make a save of the week candidate save to stop the own goal.
All being said if he puts that second half header off a free kick in to the net to give the Whitecaps a win, supporters may have been a little less harsh of the defender.