Tacoma Defiance hit wall, fall 5-0 to Whitecaps 2

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After scoring at least two goals in every competitive match they’ve played this season, the Tacoma Defiance came crashing back to earth with a 5-0 loss to Vancouver Whitecaps 2 on Wednesday. The Defiance were missing several of their mainstays — including leading scorer Osaze De Rosario and leading defender Stuart Hawkins, who were both with the Seattle Sounders — and gave 17-year-old Mohammed Shour a rare start in goal. Shour actually came up with several big saves but was repeatedly left out to dry by a defense that surrendered many quality chances.

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MATCH SUMMARY

Tacoma Defiance 0 – Whitecaps FC 2 5

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 

Venue: Swangard Stadium

Referee: Mo Mohseni

Assistants: Eray DeMirtas, Chris Harrop

Fourth official: Alain Ruch

Weather: 61 degrees and mostly sunny 

SCORING SUMMARY

WF2 – Belal Halbouni (Jackson Castro) 6’

WF2 – Nelson Pierre (Nikola Djordjevic) 18’

WF2 – Nelson Pierre 49’

WF2 – Mark O'Neill (Antoine Coupland) 89’

WF2 – Rayan Elloumi (Yuma Tsuji) 90’+3’

 MISCONDUCT SUMMARY  

TAC – Kaito Yamada (caution) 64’

WF2 – Deylen Vellios (caution) 71’ 

 LINEUPS & STATS 

Tacoma Defiance – Mo Shour; Cody Baker, Kaito Yamada, Antino Lopez – Captain (Leo Burney 31’) (Demian Alvarez 61’), Reed Baker-Whiting (Joonmo Kang 61’); Snyder Brunell (Rafferty Pedder 70’), Peter Kingston; Jackson Khoury, Sebastian Gomez (Danny Robles 70’), Travian Sousa; Yu Tsukanome

Substitutes not used: Lars Helleren, Birame Diaw, Ryan Baer, Charlie Gaffney

Total shots: 11

Shots on goal: 3

Fouls: 13

Offside: 1

Corner-kicks: 7

Saves: 3

Whitecaps FC 2 – Isaac Boehmer; Deylen Vellios (Daniel Russo 88’), Mark O'Neill, Belal Halbouni (Dembo Saidykhan 61’), Giuseppe Bovalina; Jeevan Badwal, Yuma Tsuji, Jackson Castro; Johnny Selemani (Mateo Clark 83’), Nelson Pierre (Rayan Elloumi 83’), Nikola Djordjevic (Antoine Coupland 61’)

Substitutes not used: Alexander Milosevic, Adrián Pelayo

Total shots: 14

Shots on goal: 8

Fouls: 9

Offside: 3

Corner-kicks: 7

Saves: 3