Jesper Sørensen is 52 years old. He’s spent his entire adult life either playing or coaching soccer. He logged more than 300 club matches during his days as a midfielder, managed nearly as many at this point, and witnessed hundreds more as an assistant.

None of them served up chaos like Saturday’s events at BC Place.

The Dane looked nearly as exhausted as his players after his Vancouver Whitecaps survived an instant classic against their familiar Audi MLS Cup Playoffs nemeses LAFC , advancing to the Western Conference Final via a penalty kick shootout after 120 breathless minutes before a club-record crowd (MLS era) of 53,957 – despite losing a 2-0 first-half lead on a stoppage-time free-kick golazo from Son Heung-Min and finishing the game with just nine men on the pitch.

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