The Vancouver Whitecaps have forfeited potential home-field benefit within the MLS Cup Playoffs wildcard spherical subsequent week for a completely weird purpose.
The Canadian membership head into the ultimate weekend of MLS motion two factors out of the top-seven and may they fail to beat Actual Salt Lake of their ultimate match of the season will end in both eighth or ninth place, which means they may enter the wildcard spherical of the playoffs.
Ought to the Portland Timbers, who at the moment occupy ninth within the Western Convention fail to win towards bitter rivals Seattle on Saturday, that will arrange the Timbers to sq. off with the Whitecaps within the wildcard spherical.
On this situation, Vancouver would earn home-field benefit towards the Timbers having completed one place forward of them within the convention. However catastrophe has struck for the Whitecaps.
The membership introduced on Friday that because of a scheduling battle at BC Place Stadium, they are going to be compelled to play their wildcard recreation in Portland at Windfall Park. The occasion going down at BC Place? Motocross.
Profoundly unserious that MLS would permit one in every of its groups to have a playoff recreation bumped by… World Supercross.
“We labored carefully with BC Place and MLS to discover all potential choices,” Whitecaps CEO & Sporting Director Axel Schuster mentioned in a membership assertion.
“We aren’t a membership that makes excuses and our focus is to win on Choice Day. Our objective is to enhance each season, and our ambitions haven’t modified. We’re centered on advancing to Spherical One of many MLS Cup Playoffs the place we could have the chance to play at BC Place.”
