CALGARY — Levonte Johnson scored twice to help the Vancouver Whitecaps open defence of their Canadian Championship with a 2-1 win over Cavalry FC in the opening leg of their quarterfinal Tuesday.
Johnson's first goal was a spectacular strike in first-half injury time. The second came off a Cavalry error in the 78th minute.
Vancouver's XG was a paltry 0.04 and Cavalry's 0.06 in a first half that saw each team manage just one shot on target.Johnson broke the deadlock with a moment of brilliance in first-half stoppage time. Defender Mathias Laborda took a quick free kick from inside his own half that was headed away by Callum Montgomery but only as far as the Vancouver winger, who hammered a swerving left-footed shot in off the goalpost from outside the Cavalry penalty box.
Ralph Priso caused some anxious moments for the Whitecaps in the 15th minute when his errant back pass rolled just wide of the Vancouver goalpost. An unmarked Montgomery flubbed a header off a Cavalry free kick in the 38th.Whitecaps wingback Ali Ahmed, who hit the crossbar in the 53rd minute, was a danger man during his 63-minute shift dribbling past Cavalry defenders at will.
The Whitecaps avenged that loss by dispatching Cavalry 5-3 in a penalty shootout in the 2022 quarterfinals. Cavalry was at the wrong end of another penalty shootout in the 2023 preliminary round, losing 5-3 to Pacific FC.
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