VANCOUVER — Vanni Sartini accepts that the betting odds are against his Vancouver Whitecaps as they head into the Major League Soccer playoffs.
He's coined a new term, though, for the position his club will be in when they kickoff a best-of-three first-round series against the West's top seed, Los Angeles FC, in California on Sunday.
There's a lot the team can take from that performance, said winger Sam Adekugbe, particularly since the victory snapped Vancouver's seven-game winless skid. Takaoka knows all too well that Los Angeles won't wait to unleash it's powerful offence. The Japanese netminder was in goal on Oct. 13 when Mateusz Bogusz put LAFC on the board just over 30 seconds into a game at B.C. Place.
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