Vancouver Whitecaps host Houston Dynamo at BC Place on Wednesday, August 19 (10:30 PM ET \/ 9:30 PM CT \/ 7:30 PM PT).<\/p>\n
There’s no fresh injury or suspension news to report for either side ahead of this one, so Vancouver Whitecaps should be able to call on the group that’s carried them to top spot in the Western Conference<\/a>. Brian White leads the line, with 10 goals and 31 shots on target this season making him the focal point of everything Vancouver create, while Thomas M\u00fcller’s 32 chances created \u2014 the highest figure in the squad \u2014 underlines his influence just off the front. Math\u00edas Laborda offers another route to goal from deeper, already on 3 for the season.<\/p>\n Houston Dynamo travel with their own key men available too: Mateusz Bogusz has produced 4 goals from 51 shots and remains their most heavily used attacking outlet, Jack McGlynn’s 40 chances created is the biggest playmaking workload in the squad, and Lawrence Ennali adds a further goal threat having already scored 3 times this season.<\/p>\n Top of the Western Conference on 34 points from 17 games, Vancouver Whitecaps enter this as clear favourites against a Houston Dynamo side sitting fourth in the same conference on 32 points from 18 games. Expect a tighter, more controlled contest than an open scoreline suggests \u2014 Vancouver’s +21 goal difference points to a defence capable of shutting Houston out, with White supplying the finish at the other end. Houston remain firmly in the playoff picture themselves, but containing Vancouver’s threat matters more here than chasing goals of their own on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n