MLS · Matchday 31 Match report

Colorado Rapids 1-0 Vancouver Whitecaps: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Colorado Rapids

1-0Full time

Vancouver Whitecaps

Sunday 25 October 2026, 02:30 UTC Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Colorado

Our picks against the result

7 of 13 right

Result Vancouver Whitecaps win38% 1-0
Double chance Colorado Rapids or Vancouver Whitecaps (12)73% 1-0
Both teams to score Yes61% No
Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.557% 1 goal
More corners Colorado Rapids47% Colorado Rapids (6-3)
Yellow cards Around average 2 yellow cards · league 3.9
Yellow cards 2 yellow cards 3.5 Over50% 4.5 Under69% 5.5 Under83%
Corners Around average 9 corners · league 10.1
Corners 9 corners 8.5 Over60% 9.5 Under52% 10.5 Under62%

Match stats

Colorado Rapids Vancouver Whitecaps

1 Goals 0
2 Yellow cards 0
0 Red cards 0
6 Corners 3

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

MLS Matchday 31 brings Colorado Rapids vs Vancouver Whitecaps to Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Sunday 25 October 2026, with our model favouring a Vancouver Whitecaps win and a double chance that rules out the draw.

Why this pick?

The pick is a Vancouver Whitecaps win. Our model's strength ratings put them clearly above the MLS average at both ends, and the table says the same: first of 15, 63 goals scored and 31 conceded, against a Colorado side down in ninth. The case against is the setting — Colorado at home, at altitude, with the visitors travelling in. What carries it is the sheer gap between the teams: Colorado have drawn four of their last five, and though they give up few clear chances, Vancouver's recent play has them creating more than the league average. It is a narrow call.

Both teams to score: Yes: our model sees goals at both ends, with Colorado's recent attacking numbers sitting around the league average and Vancouver creating more than most, their expected-goals form pointing the same way.

Form guide

Colorado Rapids

D 0-0 at Portland Timbers (A) MLS · 18 Oct
D 2-2 vs Minnesota United (H) MLS · 15 Oct
D 1-1 vs San Jose Earthquakes (H) MLS · 11 Oct
L 2-3 at LA Galaxy (A) MLS · 27 Sep
D 3-3 vs Seattle Sounders FC (H) MLS · 20 Sep

Vancouver Whitecaps

W 2-1 at Austin FC (A) MLS · 18 Oct
D 0-0 at St. Louis City (A) MLS · 15 Oct
D 1-1 at Los Angeles FC (A) MLS · 11 Oct
L 1-3 at Chicago Fire FC (A) MLS · 7 Oct
D 3-3 vs DC United (H) MLS · 27 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Colorado RapidsVancouver Whitecaps

Attack 28 86 1.4 goals per match this season2.1 goals per match this season

Defence 48 93 1.4 conceded per match this season1.0 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's MLS clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.