Through 47 games in all competitions this year, the Los Angeles Football Club has gone scoreless seven times.

The only LAFC foe to accomplish that more than once? Austin FC, which arrives Wednesday at BMO Stadium as a sturdy challenge ahead of Game 1 of the best-of-three, first-round playoff series between the No. 3 and No. 6 seeds in the Western Conference.

Austin left Exposition Park in mid-March a 1-0 winner . (It was LAFC’s eighth match in 20 days to jumpstart the season.) Seven months later, the teams clashed in the Texas capitol and LAFC, missing Son Heung-min and Denis Bouanga, dropped a crucial contest by the same score .

Each outcome hinged on lapses in set piece defending on match days when head coach Steve Cherundolo’s group wasn’t its usual dangerous self around the oppos

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