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Saturday night’s Cascadia Cup clash between the Vancouver Whitecaps and Seattle Sounders is being portrayed as a clash between David and Goliath.

The Whitecaps are off to their worst start in their Major League Soccer history, going winless in three games, twice giving up three goals, and are one of just two clubs without a point.

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The Sounders lead the West standings with a team-record 3-0 start, having scored a league-high 10 goals while conceding just three.

It certainly seems to be a mismatch of biblical proportions.

“I hope we’re David, because I know the story very well. I grew up with that story,” Caps’ coach Marc Dos Santos said Thursday. “So if it’s David versus Goliath and we’re David, that’s fine.

“If people assess that Seattle is stronger than us today if you look at points … it’s normal that people think that. But at the end of the story, David survived.”

To fell the giants from down the I-5, the Whitecaps will need to address their two biggest issues: scoring, and not getting scored on. Simple in theory, never in execution.