Vancouver FC narrowly kept their playoff hopes alive by playing Valour to a 1-1 draw at Willoughby Community Park on Sunday, Oct, 13.

Jordan Faria opened the scoring for Valour in the 54th minute, as Shaan Hundal found him wide-open in the box on a counter-attack to make it 1-0.

Then, Alejandro D铆az answered back for Vancouver in the 76th minute, as Grady McDonnell found him inside of the box to tie the game up at 1-1.

Despite a late push for a winner from both sides, neither team would be able to find a late marker, leaving the game to finish as a draw.

鈥淚n football, it鈥檚 psychology first and foremost,鈥� Vancouver head coach, Afshin Ghotbi offered.

鈥淚 think the higher the level you go to, the mental and psychological part plays a bigger factor, and then you need players that embrace these kind of pressure situations, and hope the pressure brings the best out of them rather than the worst of them.鈥�

Both teams will head into their last matchdays needing to win.

鈥淭hese must-wins, these are games you want to be a part of,鈥� Vancouver centre back Rocco Romeo commented.

Vancouver's James Cameron was named CanPL.ca Player of the Match after he finished with 40 out of 49 passes completed (82 per cent), plus 84 touches, one dribble, six passes into the final third, seven out of eight long balls, two tackles, five recoveries and 11 out of 18 duels won.

Next, Saturday, Oct.19, Vancouver will head out on the road to face Atl茅tico Ottawa at TD Place.