Whitecaps rain on Portland’s parade

Record unbeaten streak comes to end

NEXT GAME: Wednesday Canadian Championship Soccer Final | Leg 2 Vancouver Whitecaps at Toronto FC 4:30 p.m.,

BMO Field, TSN 1 /4, TSN 1040 AM They’re not going to Disneyland just yet, so VooDoo Donuts will have to do.

Vancouver Whitecaps coach Carl Robinson promised to treat his team at the famous Portland bakery after the sweetest victory of the year on Saturday night, a 2-1 road decision over the Portland Timbers, the hottest team in Major League Soccer.

For the second straight week, the Caps went into a park that was considered impenetrable and came away with a positive result.

Following up on last Saturday’s 2-2 draw at NYCFC, Vancouver became the first team to beat Portland at Providence Park, snapping their team-record 15-game unbeaten streak in the process.

The Whitecaps (9-9-6), who are unbeaten in three MLS games and five overall, bolted to a 2-0 lead on goals from Kei Kamara and Cristian Techera before the first half ended, then weathered a frantic second-half attack from the Timbers (10-8-3), who got a penaltykick goal from Diego Valeri.

“I think we saw two different halves of football today. The first half, the boys handled themselves immaculately. We caught them in transition two or three times, we scored two good goals, but we knew the second half was going to totally different,” said Robinson.

The win pulled the Caps to within two points of Real Salt Lake — who drew 1-1 with Montreal on Saturday — for the final playoff berth in the Western Conference.

SET PIECE SHOWS UP

With two goals off set pieces heading into Saturday, the Caps were tied for dead-last with Minnesota United.

Well, they’re second-last now. Waston put a long free kick from centre to the top of the box, where Kamara put a loping header into the empty net for a stunning opening goal in the 14th minute.

THE BULLET DODGER

Waston’s 40th-minute foul on Valeri was unquestionably a penalty. But Valeri pulled it wide past the left post — just his third miss in 179 MLS games.

LET’S GET IN FORMATION

Missing Alphonso Davies, the Whitecaps tweaked their formation, coming out in a 4-2-3-1, and it worked well as they won the battle in the middle of the park. Aly Ghazal and Felipe paired well up the centre.

NO REST FOR THE WEARY

Davies and Doneil Henry both missed Saturday ’s game with injuries, but could play in Wednesday ’s Canadian Championship secondleg with Toronto.

But three days after that is another big game against New York Red Bulls.