Buchanan scores for Villarreal, the Whitecaps finish first in the West with club records, and Canada's week ahead
Buchanan's 80th-minute goal beat Getafe on Sunday. Vancouver's 64 points, 19 wins and 74 goals are club records. Canada play Guatemala on Friday at 9 p.m. ET (03:00 CET) and at BMO Field on Monday at 8 p.m. ET.
Tajon Buchanan scored the goal that beat Getafe on Sunday, Alphonso Davies played in Bayern Munich’s win at Mainz on Saturday, and Jonathan David began Atlético Madrid’s defeat by Barcelona on the bench. All three now head to Canada’s camp for the Concacaf Nations League quarter-final against Guatemala, with the first leg in Guatemala City on Friday 13 November at 9 p.m. ET (03:00 CET on Saturday) and the return at BMO Field in Toronto on Monday 16 November at 8 p.m. ET (02:00 CET on Tuesday). At home, the Vancouver Whitecaps finished the MLS regular season first in the West with a set of club records, and the Canadian Premier League final is set for Calgary on 21 November.
The Canadians in Europe this weekend
Villarreal beat Getafe 2-0 at the Estadio de la Cerámica on Sunday. According to LaLiga’s official match page, Buchanan started, played the whole game and scored in the 80th minute from a Nicolas Pépé cross, before Carlos Romero added a second in stoppage time. Tani Oluwaseyi also started for Villarreal and was replaced by Pépé in the 76th minute; Nathan Saliba came on in the 84th. Villarreal are eighth in La Liga on 15 points.
Davies played in Bayern’s 2-1 win at Mainz on Saturday; ESPN’s report of the game says he had an effort cleared off the line. Joshua Kimmich and Lennart Karl scored for Bayern, who stay level on points with Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga. David was named among Atlético Madrid’s substitutes for Sunday’s game against Barcelona, according to ESPN’s player-stats page for the match; whether he came on in Atlético’s 2-1 defeat was not on a source this site could read on Monday morning. The game has its own report on this site.
Canada’s squad and the Guatemala ties
Jesse Marsch’s 23, named on 3 November, includes Davies, David, Buchanan, Oluwaseyi and Saliba, with Toronto FC’s Jonathan Osorio, Richie Laryea and Richard Chukwu and the Whitecaps’ Ralph Priso among the MLS players. Canada Soccer’s release gives the first leg at the Estadio Manuel Felipe Carrera in Guatemala City and the second at BMO Field, with both games on TSN, RDS and OneSoccer. “This is an important window for us,” Marsch said in the release.
The Canadian Press, in a report carried by TSN, said Cyle Larin and Stephen Eustáquio were newly injured and that Derek Cornelius, Alfie Jones and Alistair Johnston were also unavailable, with the 18-year-olds Chukwu and Kevin Khan called up in their place. No change to the squad had been announced by Canada Soccer as of 07:30 CET on Monday. Where and when the squad gathers was not stated on a source this site could read.
The Whitecaps’ record season and the playoff path
Vancouver beat CF Montréal 2-0 at Stade Saputo on Decision Day, Saturday, according to ESPN’s match page; the scorers were not on a source this site could read. The club’s own announcement of its playoff schedule says the Whitecaps finished first in the Western Conference with 64 points, 19 wins, 74 goals scored and 34 conceded, all club records, and second in the overall standings behind Nashville, who set a league record with 77 points.
As the West’s top seed, the Whitecaps play the winner of the Wild Card game between Seattle Sounders and Real Salt Lake, at Lumen Field on Thursday 19 November. The club lists that game at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. ET (05:00 CET on Friday); the league’s own schedule page gives 10 p.m. ET, so readers should check the time before Thursday. Round One is a best-of-three series: Game 1 is at BC Place on Sunday 22 November at 6:30 p.m. Pacific, 9:30 p.m. ET (03:30 CET on Monday); Game 2 is away on Friday 27 November at 8 p.m. Pacific, 11 p.m. ET (05:00 CET on Saturday); a third game, if needed, is at BC Place on Wednesday 2 December. The MLS Cup final is on 18 December. “The excitement and passion of our supporters have been incredible throughout the season,” said Axel Schuster, the club’s chief executive, in the announcement.
Toronto FC’s season ended with a 4-1 defeat at Philadelphia on Saturday. The club’s recap says Cavan Sullivan scored twice for the Union and Josh Sargent scored Toronto’s goal in first-half stoppage time; Osorio captained the side and Laryea made his 173rd appearance for the club. Toronto finish 12th in the East with 39 points.
The CPL final
Cavalry FC host Atlético Ottawa in the Canadian Premier League final at ATCO Field at Spruce Meadows in Calgary on Saturday 21 November, kick-off 3 p.m. ET (21:00 CET), the league announced. Cavalry, who won the regular-season Shield, beat FC Supra du Québec 3-2 on aggregate in their semi-final, winning the second leg 2-0 in Calgary after losing the first 2-1; Atlético Ottawa beat Forge 5-4 on aggregate, with Nicolas Fleuriau Chateau scoring a hat-trick in the second leg, the first in the league’s playoff history, according to the league. Northern Tribune’s recap of the second legs says Fleuriau Chateau’s third goal came in stoppage time. The CPL is not in the price feed this site uses, so no prices are shown for it.
The women’s team
Canada’s women play Panama in the quarter-final of the Concacaf W Championship in Mansfield, Texas, on Saturday 28 November at 1 p.m. ET (19:00 CET), according to Canada Soccer’s camp page. Casey Stoney’s final roster had not been published as of Monday morning.
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