{"id":928730,"date":"2026-10-11T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928730\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:14:13","slug":"oliver-larraz-scores-whitecaps-earn-playoff-spot-in-draw-with-lafc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928730\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Larraz scores, Whitecaps earn playoff spot in draw with LAFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \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>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>Denis Bouanga scored in the 46th minute for LAFC (11-9-9), which is winless, with two losses, in four straight.<\/p>\n<p>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>The Whitecaps earned a playoff spot with the draw, combined with other results around the league. <\/p>\n<p>\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>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>Vancouver: Plays Wednesday at St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>LAFC: Hosts Austin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Oliver Larraz scored a goal for the 10-man Vancouver Whitecaps in a 1-1 tie with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-928730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928730","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=928730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}