{"id":928626,"date":"2026-10-11T05:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T05:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928626\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T05:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T05:14:14","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-clinch-playoff-spot-in-draw-with-lafc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928626\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Whitecaps clinch playoff spot in draw with LAFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Oliver Larraz scored a goal for the 10-man Vancouver Whitecaps in a 1-1 tie with Los Angeles FC on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tristan Blackmon was shown a straight red card in the seventh minute and Vancouver played a man down the rest of the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Denis Bouanga scored in the 46th minute for LAFC (11-9-9), which is winless, with two losses, in four straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yohei Takaoka had three saves for Vancouver (15-7-6). The Whitecaps lead the Western Conference and are second in MLS with 51 points (Nashville, 63) this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u00c9dier Ocampo played an arcing entry pass from the right side to Larraz, whose header at the front post was parried by diving goalkeeper Hugo Lloris. Larraz blasted a first-touch putback into the top-net to give the Whitecaps a 1-0 lead in the 43rd minute. The 25-year-old midfielder scored his first goal since 2024 and his second in four-plus MLS seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bouanga slammed home a header off a cross played by Sergi Palencia for his 15th goal this season. Bouanga, a 31-year-old forward, has a goal in three consecutive games and has scored at least 15 in four consecutive seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vancouver: Plays Wednesday at St. Louis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAFC: Hosts Austin on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full MLS coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Oliver Larraz scored a goal for the 10-man Vancouver Whitecaps in a 1-1 tie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,82,55],"class_list":["post-928626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}