Toronto FC (0) – Inter Miami CF (1) Postgame Summary

October 5, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Toronto FC News Release

SCORING SUMMARY

MIA – Leonardo Campana 90+3′ (Luis Suárez)

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY

TOR – Matty Longstaff 55′ (caution)

TOR – Alonso Coello 77′ (caution)

TOR – Sigurd Rosted 79′ (caution)

RECORDS (W-L-T)

Toronto FC 11-19-4 37 points

Inter Miami CF 21-4-8 71 points

LINEUPS

TORONTO FC – Sean Johnson; Shane O’Neill (Henry Wingo 62′, Tyrese Spicer 72′), Sigurd Rosted, Nicksoen Gomis (Raoul Petretta 62′); Alonso Coello, Matty Longstaff (Brandon Servania 80′); Richie Laryea, Jonathan Osorio (C), Derrick Etienne Jr. Lorenzo Insigne (80′), Kobe Franklin; Deandre Kerr (Prince Owusu 46′)

Substitutes Not Used: Luka Gavran, Aimé Mabika, Deybi Flores

INTER MIAMI CF – Oscar Ustari; Noah Allen, Tomás Avilés, Serhiy Kryvtsov, Franco Negri; Julian Gressel (Diego Gómez 80′), David Ruiz (Sergio Busquets 61′), Benjamin Cremaschi (Luis Suárez 71′); Matías Rojas (Yannick Bright 71′), Robert Taylor (Lionel Messi 61′), Leonardo Campana (C)

Substitutes Not Used: Drake Callender, Ryan Sailor, Jordi Alba, Lawson Sunderland

MEDIA NOTES

Raoul Petretta made his 50th Major League Soccer appearance for Toronto FC.

JOHN HERDMAN – HEAD COACH, TORONTO FC

Q: Your team led the dance for much of the evening, but the lack of cutting edge, is that sort of a problem you had for a while?

Yeah, I think to start, just to thank the fans who have been right behind us this season, this is a group that show up week-in, week-out. They brought the energy. We needed that energy. We just weren’t able to deliver. I thought we defended really well today. That was a pretty impressive performance against, or what is, a talented team, regardless of who they start with. That’s a tough Miami team to play against.

But you can’t hide it. We are not as ruthless or as clinical as other teams. We see Miami get that one big opportunity, and it’s taken, and so I think for us, you know, we knew it was going to be a mountain to climb this season, and we’ve climbed. We’ve had some performances that weren’t at the standard. And that’s for us to reflect on. But we’ve had some performances that we should be really proud of. There’s been some moments in the season, you know, the derby wins or nations — sorry, the Leagues Cup progressions, beating Pachuca, being in the top four for the first parts of the season, all of those things were great steps.

But it just hasn’t been good enough in this last four months, and you know, we’ll have to look hard at ourselves. We were in a…