Five winners, three losers from RSL’s 1-0 win over Vancouver

Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports His cross in for Damir Kreilach’s goal was magnificent, and that’s a big part of the recognition here, but I also saw some good work-rate from the sophomore MLS player. He’s very much been the player to supplant Sam Johnson in the lineup in recent weeks, and there have been plenty of questions around that. But he showed today — and last week — that he brings a great deal of value.

I don’t know what got into Albert Rusnak, but his normally safe possession play was a shadow of what we saw even last week. Maybe it was the turf, maybe it was something else (distraction? a new car to double-park? I dunno), but he had an off-game, and multiple times, he very…