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Carson, CA (SportsNetwork. Max Unger Saints Jersey .com) - Real Salt Lake can clinch a seventh straight trip to the playoffs on Sunday when the club travels to the StubHub Center to take on last-place Chivas USA. RSL enters the weekend eight points back of Western Conference leaders Seattle and Los Angeles, but the team would like to remain in the top three to avoid playing in the knockout round. Salt Lake has only a one-point lead on FC Dallas with four games to play, so three points is a must for Jeff Cassars side on Sunday. A 2-1 defeat to Vancouver last time out saw RSL take the lead in the 57th minute through Nat Borchers, but Salt Lake gave away two debatable penalty kicks that were converted by Pedro Morales, forcing the team to leave the match with nothing. Despite the setback, midfielder Kyle Beckerman was still pleased with the effort, and he is confident his team can come away with a better result on Sunday. I think the important thing was the effort that we gave tonight, Beckerman said after the loss. I thought everybody fought for each other and really had each others back. The main thing you can get from it is we you can work for each other and really react to mistakes, and I thought we did that. Well take that and see if we can get better next week. Chivas is a team that is in the midst of another disappointing campaign, and the club saw its winless streak reach 12 games following a 4-2 setback against Seattle last time out. Wilmer Cabreras team actually took a 2-1 lead against the Supporters Shield contenders through 18 minutes, but goals from Lamar Neagle, Clint Dempsey and Obafemi Martins allowed the Sounders to survive the upset. The performance against Seattle is one of the best that Chivas has produced in recent months with the team having been held without a goal in nine of its 12 games during the winless streak. We came to play an even game and it was a good game, said Cabrera following the Seattle defeat. The intensity was good; we created options and we scored two goals. [Seattle is] a very good team, one of the top teams in this league, if not the best. No doubt, with the mentality, with the intensity that the players put on the field, we watched and we enjoyed a good game. Those kind of moral victories are the only ones that Chivas is getting at this point in the season with the club rooted to the bottom of the Western Conference and having already been eliminated from playoff contention. But Cabrera is hopeful that if his side can play with a similar intensity to what he saw against Seattle over the final four games, that his side will be able to at least take some points down the stretch. Weve been talking, [the players] are committed and right now, what we need to think is, if we can play the next four games with this intensity, were going to win some points because we have three [games] at home, so thats important, Cabrera said. Brandon Browner Saints Jersey . "It was one of the worst feelings Ive had in hockey for sure," the Edmonton Oil Kings defenceman said. Being forced to sit and watch the first three Canadian games of this years tournament has been almost as painful. Benjamin Watson Saints Jersey . The 5-foot-9, 195-pound Branch had 518 catches for 6,644 yards and 39 touchdowns over a career spent mostly with the New England Patriots.KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia -- Ted Ligety of the United States won the seasons penultimate World Cup giant slalom Saturday to keep alive his hopes of retaining the discipline title for another year. The GS champion in 2008, 10 and 11, Ligety trails leader Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who finished third, by 92 points with one race remaining -- in Schladming, Austria next week. With a victory worth 100 points, Ligety must win the final race and hope Hirscher doesnt score points. "Its a lot to make up. I need Hirscher to do what I have done -- I made some mistakes," Ligety said. "I scored 513 points. Thats more than most people got a crystal globe for in the last couple of years. Thats really a testament for Marcel and how well he is skiing." Ligety added that "its tough to lose a title when you score so many points but, at the same time, if the person who is winning has such a great season you have to take it with a smile." Ligety built on his commanding first-run lead to finish in an aggregate time of 2 minutes, 22.47 seconds to beat second-place Alexis Pinturault of France by 1.61. Hirscher was 2.03 behind. It was Ligetys 11th career win -- all in GS -- and his fourth victory on the Podkoren course to equal the record of Austrias Benjamin Raich on this hill. Beat Feuz of Switzerland, who failed to qualify for the second run, remains in the overall lead with 1,250 points, 55 clear of Hirscher. Defending champion Ivica Kostelic of Croatia earned 6 points for finishing 25th and now has 1,049 points. "Its my biggest wish to win a globe," said Hirscher, who missed the final part of last season with a broken foot. "But before the season I never expected to have this wonderful season. It doesnt matter if I win one, two or three globes, or maybe no globe, it was a great season for me." Kostelic struggled on his return after almost four weeks out because of knee surgery. The Croat complained about back problems which prevented him from fully attacking. "My back huurt during warmups and my physiotherapist worked on me until the last minute before the start," Kostelic said after the first run. Terron Armstead Black Jersey. "If your knee is not OK, it can harm other parts of your body." Kostelic seemed to hold back in his second run to avoid the risk of skiing out. Feuz has been battling a left knee injury for weeks and will undergo surgery after the season. He said he didnt expect to score points. "It was more of a practice run for me," Feuz said. "My knee was just fine during the race. I will take some rest now before downhill training (in Schladming, Austria) on Tuesday." Ligety was in full control of the race after a blistering first run. In his final run, his lead at the second intermediate time even topped the 2-second mark. "There is no such thing as a perfect run," Ligety said. "I definitely could have been faster but I could have been a lot slower too. I am pretty happy with coming down as clean as I was top to bottom." The American won two of the first three GS races this season but lost ground to Hirscher in the next four outings before hitting back Saturday in convincing style, posting the fastest times in both runs. "In the last couple of races, I didnt feel like having the right intensity." Ligety said. "In my first run I skied mad in a sense, I was just going as hard I could all the way down." Ligety said he was not surprised by his leading margin. "Ive had races this year that I should have won by that much," Ligety said. "Ive had runs where I put large margins on people but this is the first time I really had a good run top to bottom." The second run was interrupted for over 20 minutes after Florian Eisath of Italy broke his left upper arm at a crash and had to be brought down the hill on a sled. Eisath was thrown off course and landed badly on his arm and shoulder before sliding into the safety nets. A mens slalom on the same course is scheduled for Sunday. 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