Sunday’s Leagues Cup date in Los Angeles will see both the LA Galaxy or Whitecaps advance to the following spherical.
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Heading to L.A. for his or her Leagues Cup recreation towards the Galaxy, the Vancouver Whitecaps’ mindset is: they’ve made it to the knockout spherical.
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No, they’re not trying previous the Galaxy in Sunday’s recreation, however with León topping their group after beating the Galaxy 1-0 on Wednesday, the winner of Sunday’s recreation advances to the competitors’s Candy 16.
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“It’s like a playoff recreation,” stated Whitecaps coach Vanni Sartini. “We have to win both within the 90s or in penalties.
“We’ve to go and attempt to win the sport,” he added Friday. It’s already an elimination recreation. If we win we’re in, if we lose, we’re out.”
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“These are video games that you just wish to be part of, occasions the place you get examined when issues are extra on the road than in a regular-season matchup,” added centreback Tristan Blackmon. “There’s a trophy in play right here for these video games … silverware for the membership. That’s a possible actuality for us, and I believe all the blokes are trying ahead to this recreation.”
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The Galaxy are, too.
Their 4-2 regular-season loss to the Whitecaps two weeks in the past at B.C. Place is contemporary of their reminiscence. They fell behind 3-0 within the first 45 earlier than rallying to drag inside one, however Sergio Cordova salted the sport away with a 94th-minute purpose.
“I believe any recreation after a loss is a revenge recreation since you exit to get a win,” stated Galaxy midfielder Douglas Costa. “I wish to win and get factors. They performed properly towards us at their stadium and bought the win, however right here in our stadium we’ve to do the identical. We’ve to play properly, play our recreation and get the three factors.”
“It’s a match, so, not all the things was using on (Wednesday’s) recreation,” added coach Greg Vanney. “It could have been nice to get three factors, or to place ourselves within the pole place. It simply implies that for our development, all the things rides on the following recreation. That’s match play when you could have teams like this.”
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The Galaxy’s regulation-time loss to León left them backside of the group. The Caps and León performed an exciting recreation that ended 2-2 final week, with the Liga MX aspect prevailing after a breathless 38-kick shootout.
The winner Sunday will both face the winner of the West Group 1, which incorporates the Portland Timbers, Tigres UANL and San Jose Earthquakes. San Jose and Tigres play an 8 p.m. evening owl match on Sunday; a Quakes loss eliminates them, and a win would put them second. Tigres can high the group simply by making it by way of regulation time to the shootout.
Sartini isn’t anticipating the Galaxy group that confirmed up — or slightly, didn’t — within the first half-hour. The one which dominated possession and pushed Vancouver to their limits regardless of being all the way down to 10 males, that’s the one he thinks will present up at Dignity Well being Sports activities Park.
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“It’s not going to be the sport that we performed at B.C. Place, the place all the things went in principally in our favour. Beside the purpose, there was a purple card after 20 minutes,” stated Sartini. “I believe it’s gonna be crucial (to face up to) the beginning of the sport. I believe they may include their weapons (loaded).”
“It’s gonna be a troublesome 90 minutes, and we all know Galaxy, they have been the higher group than us even with 10 males,” midfielder Ryan Gauld stated of their final assembly.
“We have to begin the way in which we began within the dwelling recreation, search for that very same sort of efficiency. … We began actually aggressive, on the entrance foot and we took the sport to them. I believe as quickly because the purple card occurred after which we went three up, we thought it was executed. And so they’ve bought actually good gamers that may reap the benefits of it in the event you take your foot off the gasoline. … We will’t enable any of the complacency that we had within the final recreation.”
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