St. Louis City rolls to victory over Vancouver Whitecaps

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis City received an early objective from Eduard Löwen, a late objective from Miguel Perez and an own-goal from Tristan Blackmon in between en path to a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night time.

St. Louis City (8-4-1) grabbed the lead within the tenth minute on an unassisted objective by Löwen — his fourth netter this season..

Blackmon’s own-goal got here within the forty fifth minute, giving St. Louis City a 2-0 lead at halftime.

Vancouver (4-5-5) pulled inside a objective when Brian White took a go from Julian Gressel within the 83rd minute and scored for the fifth time this season.

Perez scored unassisted within the fourth minute of stoppage time for his first profession objective. The 18-year-old midfielder discovered the online in his eleventh look, together with 5 begins.

Roman Bürki completed with one save for St. Louis City. Thomas Hasal saved 5 photographs in his first begin of the season for Vancouver.

The Whitecaps have misplaced their final two street matches towards enlargement groups after posting a 3-0-2 mark of their earlier 5 street journeys towards first-year golf equipment.

St. Louis City has a league-high seven gamers with a number of objectives this season. SLC was coming off a 4-0 street win over Sporting Kansas City — its third four-goal victory. Atlanta United set the report at 4 in its inaugural 2017 season.

The Whitecaps haven’t picked up a win in 15 straight street matches — another than the San Jose Earthquakes for the longest present skid. Fourteen of Vancouver’s 17 factors have come at residence this season.

Vancouver returns residence to play the Houston Dynamo on Wednesday. St. Louis City will host the Houston Dynamo on Saturday.