May 5, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Toronto FC News Release
SCORING SUMMARY
CIN – Calvin Harris 2′ (Brandon Vázquez, Álvaro Barreal)
CIN – Luciano Acosta 57′ (PK)
MISCONDUCT SUMMARY
TOR – Ralph Priso 6′ (ejection)
TOR – Jayden Nelson 12′ (caution)
CIN – Obinna Nwobodo 59′ (caution)
CIN – Tyler Blackett 75′ (caution)
CIN – Álvaro Barreal 88′ (caution)
RECORDS (W-L-D)
Toronto FC 3-5-2 11 points
FC Cincinnati 4-5-1 13 points
LINEUPS
TORONTO FC – Alex Bono; Kadin Chung (Kobe Franklin 77′), Lukas MacNaughton, Shane O’Neill; Kosi Thompson (Jordan Perruzza 64′), Michael Bradley (C), Ralph Priso, Luca Petrasso; Alejandro Pozuelo (Steffen Yeates 64′), Jayden Nelson (Deandre Kerr 46′), Jesús Jiménez (Ayo Akinola 64′)
Substitutes Not Used: Quentin Westberg, Themi Antonoglou, Paul Rothrock
FC CINCINNATI – Roman Celentano; Alvas Powell, Nick Hagglund, Ian Murphy, John Nelson (Tyler Blackett 67′); Obinna Nwobodo (Haris Medunjanin 67′), Júnior Moreno, Calvin Harris (Dominique Badji 58′), Luciano Acosta (C) (Nick Markanich 86′), Álvaro Barreal; Brandon Vázquez (Brenner 67′)
Substitutes Not Used: Kenneth Vermeer, Zico Bailey, Geoff Cameron, Harrison Robledo
MEDIA NOTES
Steffen Yeates and Kobe Franklin made their debuts for Toronto FC.
BOB BRADLEY – HEAD COACH, TORONTO FC
Q. An unfortunate start for sure tonight. You have a young team, a work-in-progress. You had a depleted roster tonight but there were some defensive issues. That first goal seemed to be will be repeated several times. What are you seeing in your team’s defending?
The first goal comes where they just play a long ball and it’s in front of Lucas, and he goes tight, and as the ball gets laid out wide and Vazquez runs, Kadin has to close down a little bit faster and Lucas has to be ready in that moment that as soon as Vazquez releases the ball and realizes that his next move is going to be to sprint to get behind. So we were just a little too slow dealing with a ball, a play that starts just off of a long ball on that…
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