1. “There’s nothing worse than having to rely on other teams,” Wil Trapp shared after the team’s loss to Vancouver. “Thankfully for us,” he continued, “we still control our destiny in the sense that we got two huge games and we have to win.” After a weekend when no-one in the West wanted to take control of their season, mid-week, everyone did. Portland won, Vancouver won, Salt Lake won, LAFC won. Everyone, that is, except Minnesota United, who have now dropped to 8th place, out of the playoffs. Technically, of course, Trapp was right, as was Adrian Heath in his post-game argument: “I think it’s going to go all the way to the wire and, tonight, wouldn’t really change anything for me on that point.
Three things: #VANvMIN
