VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps say they've learned from their mistakes ahead of a do-or-die home playoff game against Los Angeles F.C. on Sunday.
Head coach Vanni Sartini said his team has analyzed its mistakes in the 5-2 loss against LAFC last week, including allowing Golden Boot Award-winner Dennis Bouanga time and space to bury his chance past goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka.
"The first thing to be better at something is to work on the origin of something," he said."If you concede 12 in a game, the odds of conceding at least one goal … are high.He added that his team have benefited from an extra day of training due to the game being on Sunday instead of the normal Saturday.
"We matched them in the first half, arguably the better team in the first half," he said."There was a confident feeling at half time that we were capable of going out and winning the game, unfortunately they came out a little bit stronger than us in the second half and we weren't able to recover from 3-2 down."
The best-of-three playoff series is new this season after the league previously used a single-game elimination format in previous years. The aggregate scores from games do not factor into whether a team advances.
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