Chicago Fire FC (2) – Toronto FC (0) Post Game Summary

July 14, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Toronto FC News Release

CHICAGO FIRE FC (2) – TORONTO FC (0) POST GAME SUMMARY

SCORING SUMMARY

CHI – Jhon Durán 4′ (Chris Mueller)

CHI – Jhon Durán 16′ (Brian Gutiérrez)

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY

TOR – Shane O’Neill 34′ (caution)

TOR – Lukas MacNaughton 37′ (caution)

CHI – Chris Mueller 45+1′ (caution)

CHI – Brian Gutiérrez 64′ (caution)

TOR – Domenico Criscito 65′ (caution)

TOR – Jayden Nelson 90+4′ (caution)

RECORDS (W-L-D)

Toronto FC 5-11-4 19 points

Chicago Fire FC 5-10-5 20 points

LINEUPS

TORONTO FC – Quentin Westberg; Kosi Thompson (Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty 72′), Shane O’Neill, Chris Mavinga (Lukas MacNaughton 32′), Luca Petrasso (Domenico Criscito 63′); Michael Bradley (C), Mark-Anthony Kaye (Jacob Shaffelburg 63′), Jonathan Osorio; Deandre Kerr, Jayden Nelson, Jesús Jiménez (Ayo Akinola HT’)

Substitutes Not Used: Alex Bono, Kadin Chung, Jordan Perruzza, Ifunanyachi Achara

CHICAGO FIRE FC – Gabriel Slonina; Boris Sekulić, Carlos Terán, Rafael Czichos (C), Jonathan Bornstein; Federico Navarro, Mauricio Pineda, Chris Mueller (Stanislav Ivanov 77′), Xherdan Shaqiri (Jairo Torres 77′), Brian Gutiérrez (Fabian Herbers 68′); Jhon Durán (Kacper Przybyłko 68′)

Substitutes Not Used: Spencer Richey, Jhon Espinoza, Kendall Burks, Andre Reynolds, Chinonso Offor

MEDIA NOTES

Mark-Anthony Kaye made his debut for Toronto FC.

Ayo Akinola made his 50th MLS regular season appearance for Toronto FC.

BOB BRADLEY – HEAD COACH, TORONTO FC

Q. Your team dug a hole early with some defensive miscues and didn’t seem to muster much offense after that. What do you say to the players after that performance?

Terrible start. Put ourselves in a bad situation where, you know, we were trying to establish control in the game. And three minutes in, you know, Shane starts to dribble, the little ball he plays back to Chris, he’s got better options. Chris has to handle the play better and at the end of it all, Q gets caught leaning and doesn’t really give himself a chance.

You know, we’re trying at that point to see if we can get back into it, get a strong response. Then another mistake off of a goal kick. We have a chance to slide over and try to win it in their half. Gutierrez makes a clever flick. Chris gets caught on the wrong side of Durán, and so now we really put ourselves in a spot. You know, we have a lot of the ball after that but in terms of really making more out of attacks, more of a threat, no, we didn’t do enough.

Q. Anything that you liked…