Whitecaps' goal vs. LAFC: Avoid wild-card game

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For the Vancouver Whitecaps, the stakes of Sunday's match against visiting LAFC are pretty straightforward.

"It's very important," manager Vanni Sartini said. "Unfortunately we didn't do well in the last couple of games. So now this game became a game that can make us get back in the top seven and avoid the first round of the playoffs and to get back basically where we have