We’re one month into the 2025 Main League Soccer season, and all the things is topsy-turvy. The Vancouver Whitecaps are unbelievable. The LA Galaxy are terrible. Tai Baribo is scoring. Olivier Giroud just isn’t.
With nothing fairly going to plan (and all the things nonetheless to play for) listed below are the most important winners and losers from MLS Matchday 4.
Winner: Jesper Sorensen, Vancouver Whitecaps coach
The lovable Caps are simply the seventh workforce in league historical past to kick off a season with 4 straight wins, however to listen to coach Jesper Sorensen inform it, their good file solely tells half the story.
“Perhaps we’ve got an ideal file, however we’re not an ideal workforce in any respect,” Sorensen said after his team’s win in Dallas, by way of Ben Wright of the MLS web site. “Everyone is working their butts off and doing all the things they will.”
It is true—and nobody is working tougher than Sorensen himself. Vancouver was fragile and simply exploitable. In Sorensen’s succesful palms, the workforce is fluid, constructive and equally able to absorbing stress and making use of a few of its personal. 4 wins from 4 video games? Not unhealthy for a workforce many anticipated to complete lifeless final within the Western Convention. FC Dallas 0 -1 Vancouver Whitecaps
