Author’s Note: I wrote this before Carl Robinson and his staff were fired. Perhaps the analysis i’ve done is a little less relevant now but I still think there’s some stuff that’s worth looking at. A few stats will now be out of date but the general trends still hold true.
Quite a bit has been made of the Vancouver Whitecaps’ attack this season. It’s often floated that the Whitecaps’ new focus on attacking play is the reason for their defensive frailty. We’ve already seen that in terms of underlying numbers the team’s defence is hardly different from last year’s.