Game Thread: Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Philadelphia Union

Game Info

• Date: Sunday, March 5, 2017
• Time: 9:30 PM ET
• Place: BC Place, Vancouver, BC
• Television: The Comcast Network
• Stream: MLS Live
• All-Time Record: Philadelphia Union are 2-3-2 (W-L-D) against the Vancouver Whitecaps
• Know Thy Enemy: Eighty Six Forever

Starting XI

• Philadelphia Union: Andre Blake; Fabinho, Richie Marquez, Oguchi Onyewu, Keegan Rosenberry; Derrick Jones, Haris Medunjanin; Chris Pontius, Alejandro Bedoya, Fabian Herbers; Jay Simpson
• Vancouver Whitecaps: David Ousted; Jordan Harvey, Christian Dean, Tim Parker, Sheanon Williams; Alphonso Davies, Andrew Jacobson, Matias Laba, Cristian Techera; Erik Hurtado, Kekuta Manneh

Bench

• Philadelphia Union: John McCarthy, Ken Tribbett, Ray Gaddis, Warren Creavalle, Roland Alberg, Fafa Picault, C.J. Sapong
• Vancouver Whitecaps: Paolo Tornaghi, Jakob Nerwinski, Mauro Rosales, Russell Teibert, Fredy Montero, Brek Shea, Nicolas Mezquida

Injuries

Philadelphia Union

• Josh Yaro is out recovering from shoulder surgery
• Maurice Edu is still rehabbing from a broken fibula suffered last October.

Vancouver Whitecaps

• Christian Bolanos is out with right knee patellar tendonitis
• Brett Levis is out with an ACL tear
• Yordy Reyna is out while recovering from foot surgery
• David Edgar is out with a tear in his PCL and MCL
• Nicolas Mezquida is available to play despite a hip injury

Officials

Referee: Sorin Stoica

Assistant: Adam Wienckowski

Assistant: Jason White

Fourth: Dave Gantar