Toronto FC Advances to 2022 Canadian Championship Final – Post Game Summary

June 22, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Toronto FC News Release

June 22, 2022

TORONTO FC (4) – CF MONTRÉAL (0) POST GAME SUMMARY

Toronto FC advances to the 2022 Canadian Championship Final

SCORING SUMMARY

TOR – Ayo Akinola 40′ (Luca Petrasso)

TOR – Ayo Akinola 54′

TOR – Jesús Jiménez 75′

TOR – Alejandro Pozuelo 78′ (Jayden Nelson, Jonathan Osorio)

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY

MTL – Rudy Camacho 67′ (caution)

MTL – Joaquín Torres 84′ (caution)

MTL – Matko Miljevic 88′ (caution)

LINEUPS

TORONTO FC – Quentin Westberg; Kosi Thompson (Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty 73′), Shane O’Neill, Carlos Salcedo, Luca Petrasso (Jacob Shaffelburg 80′); Michael Bradley (C), Ralph Priso (Jonathan Osorio 62′), Jayden Nelson (Jordan Perruzza 80′), Alejandro Pozuelo; Ayo Akinola (Chris Mavinga 72′), Jesús Jiménez

Substitutes Not Used: Alex Bono, Deandre Kerr

CF MONTRÉAL – James Pantemis; Gabriele Corbo, Rudy Camacho, Robert Thorkelsson; Alistair Johnston, Mathieu Choinière (Ahmed Hamdi HT’), Samuel Piette (C) (Matko Miljevic 67′), Zorhan Bassong (Kei Kamara HT’); Jojea Kwizera (Joaquín Torres 76′), Ismaël Koné, Romell Quioto (Zachary Brault-Guillard 76′)

Substitutes Not Used: Logan Ketterer, Joel Waterman

MEDIA NOTES

With tonight’s victory, Toronto FC advance to the Canadian Championship final for the seventh successive season (2016 – 2022).

Toronto FC recorded their first clean sheet since a 0-0 draw against Colorado Rapids in MLS action on September 25, 2021.

Jesús Jiménez scored his first goal in the Canadian Championship for Toronto FC.

BOB BRADLEY – HEAD COACH, TORONTO FC

Q. Can you take us through the game?

Yeah, overall, important game for us. Created a lot of chances. Nice to see us finish the game in a smart way and get a shutout. That’s a long time coming. I felt we had a lot of really good performances. Good team win and awesome to be in another final.

Q. What stood out for you the most? What did you like most?

Just that there’s some more moments of fluidity. Look we created a lot of chances. Throughout part of the first half we had advantages that we didn’t do very well with. So I see all of that stuff. You know, there’s still a part that we talked about all year that connects our ideas when we have the ball and what we look like defensively.

So there was a little stretch in the first half where I didn’t like that part. And then I think we found a better way to deal with certain things. When they would try to look down our back four sometimes was coming off early and going into that…