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

Ralph Priso scored the tying goal in the third minute of stoppage time and Belal Halbouni scored the decisive goal in a penalty-kick shootout on Saturday night to help the Vancouver Whitecaps beat FC Dallas on Saturday night in a thrilling playoff game.

The win, after a 1-1 tie over 90 minutes, allowed the Whitecaps to sweep the best-of-three first-round series in the Major League Soccer Cup playoffs. 

They will host the Western Conference semifinal on Nov. 22 at B.C. Place stadium.

Vancouver, the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference, will play either third-seeded Los Angeles FC or No. 6 seed Austin in the one-game conference semifinals. 

Musa scored his first career goal in an MLS Cup playoffs game to give Dallas a 1-0 lead in the 25th minute.

Musa, on the counterattack, ran onto a long ball played ahead by Ramiro Benetti and flicked a shot from the corner of the six-yard box past Whitecaps goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka and into the net. 

But very late into the game, Priso's header — the Whitecaps' first shot on goal — was parried by rookie goalkeeper Michael Collodi, but Priso put away the rebound to make it 1-1. 

After Vancouver's Thomas Müller and Sebastian Berhalter sandwiched goals around another by Dallas' Musa to open the shootout, his teammate Patrickson Delgago's shot hit the crossbar.

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

Nolan Norris missed high for Dallas to seal it. 

The Whitecaps were dominant throughout a 3-0 win in Game 1. 

Yohei Takaoka made two saves for Vancouver.