COUVA, TT – Vancouver Whitecaps FC got their 2016-17 CONCACAF Champions League campaign off to a winning start with a hard-fought, but fully deserved, 1-0 win at Trinidad and Tobago champions Central FC on Tuesday night.
With the game coming just two days after their energy-sapping league loss in Dallas, Carl Robinson rang the changes as expected, with an entirely different starting 11 and a matchday squad that featured four call-ups from Vancouver's USL side, Whitecaps FC 2.
The ‘Caps have fallen foul of such wholesale changes in the past, but this time the team gelled quickly, earning Vancouver their first-ever Champions League points on the road.