We’re one month into the 2025 Major League Soccer season, and everything is topsy-turvy. The Vancouver Whitecaps are incredible. The LA Galaxy are awful. Tai Baribo is scoring. Olivier Giroud is not.
With nothing quite going to plan (and everything still to play for) here are the biggest winners and losers from MLS Matchday 4.
Winner: Jesper Sorensen, Vancouver Whitecaps coach
The lovable Caps are just the seventh team in league history to kick off a season with four straight wins, but to hear coach Jesper Sorensen tell it, their perfect record only tells half the story.
“Maybe we have a perfect record, but we’re not a perfect team at all,” Sorensen said after his team’s win in Dallas, via Ben Wright of the MLS website. “Everybody is working their butts off and doing everything they can.”
It’s true—and no one is working harder than Sorensen himself. Vancouver used to be fragile and easily exploitable. In Sorensen’s capable hands, the team is fluid, positive and equally capable of absorbing pressure and applying some of its own. Four wins from four games? Not bad for a team many expected to finish dead last in the Western Conference. FC Dallas 0 -1 Vancouver Whitecaps
