How to Interpret the Whitecaps’ Season so Far

Interpreting the Vancouver Whitecaps’ 2022 season is hard. First, they were the worst team in the league, now they’re the most in-form team in the league. What is one supposed to make of that? Well during the worst team portion of the season I proposed two pillars for understanding the team:

The team had been very unlucky to that point, and their results were not a true reflection of the overall quality of the squad.

The squad was not that good.

I still stand by those pillars as a helpful framework for Whitecaps analysis. I didn’t get to expand on why both of those things were important to understand in my previous article, goodness knows it was long enough already. So in this article, we will…