VANCOUVER (AP) — Ryan Gould, Pedro Witte, and Tosit Ricketts scored in the second half to give the Vancouver Whitecaps a 3-0 win over the LA Galaxy on Saturday night.

Thomas Husley made two saves for the Whitecaps (10-14-7). Jonathan Bond made three saves for the Galaxy (11-12-7). The teams will play again on Saturday. The Whitecaps host the Seattle Sounders and the Galaxy host the Colorado Rapids.

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LA Galaxy flirting with playoff doom: "Our season is on the line now.

Coming into week 31, the LA Galaxy are in real danger of missing out on the Audi MLS Cup playoffs for the third consecutive season and fifth time in the past six years.

"We shouldn't be in this position like last year," defender Derek Williams said after Wednesday's 3-0 loss to Vancouver Whitecaps FC at BC Stadium. "Today was a perfect example; we control the ball, we don't create chances, they score and then things go wrong. It's disappointing, but we have to get on with it.

Since the start of July, L.A. has won only three of its 13 games (3W-6L-4D) and only one of its six games. This leaves the Galaxy in eighth place and three points behind seventh-placed Real Salt Lake - with a game in hand - for a final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

"It comes down to performance and I think we allowed those opportunities to come into play and put ourselves in good shape and the way we needed to be." "We don't go over the line." Vani the post-match game, after Vancouver scored three goals in the second half.

"It's a mindset that we need to change again - to go back to winning ways and things like that - and it's time for us to move on. It's something that we talk about with our team." Talking a lot: taking the next big step to convert possession into attack, attack into goals, teams to keep away, move up the table. It's all the same thing. It's a mindset Is."

"We've only been six unbeaten but we've got to turn some of those draws into wins and we've got to do that with our season on the line now," Williams said. If we don't, we don't deserve it. "Okay, let's go. We're ready."