Star Tribune: Loons take four points on Vancouver / Seattle road trip
Four points at league-leading Vancouver and house-of-horrors Seattle is like getting eleven points on any other two-game road trip.
Vancouver 0, Minnesota 0
GAME STORY: Minnesota United plays MLS leader Vancouver to scoreless draw
It’s probably going to be a rough video session for Minnesota United as they review Wednesday night’s 0-0 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps, and the underlying numbers don’t look any better for the Loons.
But “no goals allowed” and “a point on the road against the league’s best team” ought to take some sting out of the postmortem.
“I have said to the players at the end that if you’re coming to a place like this at the moment and you’re not going to win, don’t lose and don’t concede,” said manager Eric Ramsay. “The way in which we saw the game out, the willingness, the discipline, energy, fight, all the words that characterize this team, you saw that.”
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Minnesota 3, Seattle 2
GAME STORY: Three-goal outburst in second half helps Minnesota United to rare victory in Seattle
Before Sunday, there were certain things that seemed inevitable in life.
Death. Taxes. Minnesota United losing in Seattle.
Eight-plus years into the Loons’ tenure in MLS, and the team had never managed to come away with so much as a point, in 10 tries. They had lost all eight regular-season games, once in the Leagues Cup, and once — most infamously — 3-2 in the 2020 conference finals, after leading 2-0 deep into the second half.
ANALYSIS: Minnesota United scores rare victory over Seattle Sounders in MLS play