Vancouver Whitecaps win thrilling playoff game against Dallas after late goal, penalties

The Associated Press

· Posted: Nov 02, 2025 10:36 AM EST | Last Updated: November 2

Ralph Priso scored the tying extremity successful the 3rd infinitesimal of stoppage clip and Belal Halbouni scored the decisive extremity successful a penalty-kick shootout connected Saturday nighttime to assistance the Vancouver Whitecaps beat FC Dallas connected Saturday nighttime successful a thrilling playoff game.

The win, aft a 1-1 necktie implicit 90 minutes, allowed the Whitecaps to expanse the best-of-three first-round bid successful the Major League Soccer Cup playoffs. 

They volition big the Western Conference semifinal connected Nov. 22 astatine B.C. Place stadium.

Vancouver, the No. 2 effect successful the Western Conference, volition play either third-seeded Los Angeles FC oregon No. 6 effect Austin successful the one-game league semifinals. 

FC Dallas guardant Petar Musa (9) scores a extremity against Vancouver Whitecaps goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka (1) during the archetypal half. Dallas were acceptable to triumph the crippled earlier a stoppage clip extremity from the 'Caps. (LM Otero/The Associated Press)

Musa scored his archetypal vocation extremity successful an MLS Cup playoffs crippled to springiness Dallas a 1-0 pb successful the 25th minute.

Musa, connected the counterattack, ran onto a agelong shot played up by Ramiro Benetti and flicked a changeable from the country of the six-yard container past Whitecaps goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka and into the net. 

Whitecaps midfielder Ralph Priso, left, celebrates his tying extremity with teammate, defender Édier Ocampo (18), during stoppage time. (LM Otero/The Associated Press )

But precise precocious into the game, Priso's header — the Whitecaps' archetypal changeable connected extremity — was parried by rookie goalkeeper Michael Collodi, but Priso enactment distant the rebound to marque it 1-1. 

After Vancouver's Thomas Müller and Sebastian Berhalter sandwiched goals astir different by Dallas' Musa to unfastened the shootout, his teammate Patrickson Delgago's changeable deed the crossbar.

Vancouver's Kenji Cabrera and Dallas' Shaq Moore traded goals earlier Halbouni scored what ended up being the decisive penalty.

FC Dallas defender Nolan Norris (32) gets a hug from teammate Sebastien Ibeagha (25) aft Norris missed the past footwear successful the shootout. (LM Otero/The Associated Press)

Nolan Norris missed precocious for Dallas to seal it. 

The Whitecaps were ascendant passim a 3-0 triumph successful Game 1. 

Yohei Takaoka made 2 saves for Vancouver.