GAME STORY: Minnesota United loses to Vancouver Whitecaps

Sunday’s game was a chance for Minnesota United to prove it belonged at the top of the Western Conference, alongside the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps, the team that’s leading the MLS standings and has one foot in the CONCACAF Champions Cup final.

By the end of the game, it was clear: Vancouver’s second string is good enough to hang with Minnesota, and its first string is good enough to blow the Loons’ doors off.

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CONTROVERSY: Minnesota United wingback Joseph Rosales was at the center of a controversy in second-half stoppage time Sunday after two Vancouver Whitecaps players appeared to accuse Rosales of using some kind of slur.

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