May 25, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
FC Cincinnati News Release
Trips back to Toronto, Ontario, Canada will always invoke good memories for FC Cincinnati and its players, coaches, staff and supporters. History was made on the grass steps away from Lake Ontario at BMO Field, where FC Cincinnati secured its first MLS trophy in club history.
On Saturday night, FC Cincinnati proved again, on the same grounds they clinched the 2023 Supporters’ Shield, why they are a leading favorite for the trophy again this season. With a stout defensive performance and more offensive fire power provided by their teenage striker duo, FCC downed their Torontonian hosts 4-3 and earned their seventh win in a row.
To get to that winning score, The Orange and Blue had to fight back and claw out a win from a losing or drawn position four separate times. Answering the bell and coming back to score each time when it seemed the game, and the points, were all but lost. But it was that championship pedigree that FCC displayed to win in the final moments.
The hosts, clearly holding on to bad memories of 2023, gave FC Cincinnati their all, deploying a physical pressing approach that often left The Orange and Blue frustrated and discombobulated. With TFC players taking every inch of physical play the officiating crew would allow, FCC had to battle through despite having a shoulder or hand to their bodies at every turn.
It was as though Toronto would find its way on the scoreboard first. After struggling to break the press, FCC conceded a corner kick where Lorenzo Insigne curled a forceful inswinger that Deybi Flores got a head to and sent to the far post just beyond Roman Celentano’s reach and into the net. Ultimately that would be the only goal of the first half.
As the half came to a close, a scary moment struck FC Cincinnati after Celentano collected a corner kick and a reckless charge from a TFC player knocked the keeper down in a heap that required medical assistance. Despite the TFC player leaping into Celentano well after the play, and launching his shoulders into the keeper’s upper body, no further discipline was given.
FCC went into the locker room down. But emerged as a team looking to get back on top.
It didn’t take long. FC Cincinnati got on the board in a hurry, scoring twice in two minutes to take the lead thanks to some hard work by Luca Orellano, who was the catalyst on both goals.
In the 53rd minute, Luciano Acosta pushed a pass through to the top of the box for Gerardo…
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