We’re one month into the 2025 Main League Soccer season, and all the things is topsy-turvy. The Vancouver Whitecaps are unimaginable. The LA Galaxy are terrible. Tai Baribo is scoring. Olivier Giroud is just not.
With nothing fairly going to plan (and all the things nonetheless to play for) listed here are the most important winners and losers from MLS Matchday 4.
Winner: Jesper Sorensen, Vancouver Whitecaps coach
The lovable Caps are simply the seventh staff in league historical past to kick off a season with 4 straight wins, however to listen to coach Jesper Sorensen inform it, their good report solely tells half the story.
“Perhaps we’ve got an ideal report, however we’re not an ideal staff in any respect,” Sorensen said after his team’s win in Dallas, through 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 more durable than Sorensen himself. Vancouver was fragile and simply exploitable. In Sorensen’s succesful arms, the staff is fluid, constructive and equally able to absorbing strain and making use of a few of its personal. 4 wins from 4 video games? Not unhealthy for a staff many anticipated to complete lifeless final within the Western Convention. FC Dallas 0 -1 Vancouver Whitecaps