Familiar foes are squaring off again in one of the best MLS postseason rivalries.Real Salt Lake and the Los Angeles Galaxy will face each other for the fifth time in eight seasons in the playoffs on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City.The first of these meetings resulted in RSL winning the MLS Cup in 2009 after prevailing in a shootout with the Galaxy. Rematches between the two clubs occurred in 2011, 2013 and 2014 with Los Angeles prevailing in 2011 and 2014.Salt Lake has reached the MLS Cup playoffs in eight of the past nine seasons, but enters the postseason with zero momentum. RSL went winless over its final seven regular-season matches, earning just three points. The club slid all the way from second place in the Western Conference down to sixth over those two months.Los Angeles also stumbled a bit ahead of the postseason. The Galaxy won just once in their final five regular-season matches to finish third in the Western Conference behind FC Dallas and the Colorado Rapids.One thing thats guaranteed is that both teams will make this elimination match entertaining. In two regular-season matches, RSL and the Galaxy combined to score 13 total goals.Five different players scored for Los Angeles when it handed Salt Lake a 5-2 loss on April 23. Gyasi Zardes, Mike Magee, Emmanuel Boateng, Giovani dos Santos and Steven Gerrard all found the back of the net to hand Real its first loss of the 2016 season. RSL needed a last-minute goal from Juan Manuel Martinez during the fourth minute of stoppage time to salvage a 3-3 draw on September 7th.If Salt Lake wins, it will host FC Dallas in the first leg of the Western Conference semifinals. With a win, Los Angeles would host Colorado Rapids in the first leg of the Western Conference semifinals. 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"I didnt need to be anybody else, I just needed to be myself and be aggressive," said Burks, who scored a career-high 34 points to spark the Utah Jazz to a 118-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night.Geelongs latest milestone man Harry Taylor had an inauspicious start to life in the AFL.Taylor was taken with pick No.17 in the 2007 national draft, an occasion generally preceded by a sleepless night.The West Australian missed the fuss, waking-up to 84 missed calls including one from unimpressed Cats coach Mark Thompson.He said quite abruptly - why havent you been picking your phone up?, Taylor recalled ahead of his 200th match.I tried to sort of muddle my way through the story.Id put the draft on the backburner a little bit.I was 21 ... in my third year of studying physio at uni and we had about 16 exams.We had an end of year physio ball after exams, which was the day before the draft.Fellow veterans Andrew Mackie, Jimmy Bartel and Corey Enright have celebrated meaningful milestones this season.At the MCG on Sunday, when Geelong hope to defeat Richmond and clamber back into the top four, it will be Taylors time in the spotlight.It is a position the 30-year-old is not entirely comfortable with, despite being one of the best defenders in the league.Bartel described Taylor as quiet, intelligent and caring earlier this week.Taylor is undoubtedly a family man, which is why 2013 presented a challenge for the two-time premiership winner.Taylor opted to sign a five-year deal with the Cats but only after beiing actively pursued by Fremantle.ddddddddddddMy family was growing and getting to a stage where school and those sort of things had to be considered, he said.My wife and I are both from WA. All our family is there.We had to weigh up all those type of things. It was basically a pretty direct conversation with her and family, to work out where our life was going to go next.Taylor attributed his development to the likes of fellow defenders Enright, Matthew Scarlett, Tom Harley and Darren Milburn.I tried to hang around those guys as much as I possibly could, probably to the point of stalking, Taylor said.I know I learned best from watching.The key defender prides himself on educating the Cats young defenders in the same fashion.I feel like Im having more influence on the group this year, he said.Taylor is upbeat the Cats are within striking distance of another flag but added they must improve if its to happen in 2016.Our good is very good and our average is pretty average, so if we can close that gap, play a little bit more consistent and get some good form going into the finals, who knows? Taylor said.It is going to be one of the most open finals series weve had in a while. 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