Whitecaps hand TFC First BMO Loss of 2008

Mar­tin Nash (the brother of Steve Nash) calmly sank a penalty to give the Van­cou­ver White­caps a crit­i­cal 1–0 win in the round robin Cana­dian Cup over Toronto FC last night. Between the Cana­dian and US Open Cups Major League Soc­cer won five of the nine matchups with the North Amer­i­can sec­ond divi­sion yes­ter­day. (which included three matches where the MLS team found itself a man up for over 45 min­utes) That’s cer­tainly not an over­whelm­ing num­ber and while I have already seen some nice spin from MLS apol­o­gists, later today we’ll objec­tively com­pare the MLS and USL and explain why every year many MLS teams strug­gle in the US Open Cup.