Toronto FC (0) – Seattle Sounders (2) Post Game Summary

July 2, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Toronto FC News Release

TORONTO FC (0) – SEATTLE SOUNDERS (2) POST GAME SUMMARY

SCORING SUMMARY

SEA – Dylan Teves 39′ (Léo Chú, Jimmy Medranda)

SEA – Fredy Montero 60′ (Nicolás Lodeiro)

MISCONDUCT SUMMARY

SEA – Léo Chú 14′ (caution)

TOR – Carlos Salcedo 31′ (caution)

SEA – Nouhou Tolo 34′ (caution)

SEA – Nicolás Lodeiro 70′ (caution)

SEA – Danny Leyva 90+2′ (caution)

RECORDS (W-L-D)

Toronto FC 5-10-3 18 points

Seattle Sounders 8-7-2 26 points

LINEUPS

TORONTO FC – Quentin Westberg; Kosi Thompson, Carlos Salcedo, Chris Mavinga, Luca Petrasso (Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty 46′); Michael Bradley (C), Jonathan Osorio, Jayden Nelson (Ralph Priso 79′), Alejandro Pozuelo; Ayo Akinola (Deandre Kerr 46′), Jesús Jiménez

Substitutes Not Used: Alex Bono, Lukas MacNaughton, Kadin Chung, Shane O’Neill, Jacob Shaffelburg, Jordan Perruzza

SEATTLE SOUNDERS – Stefan Frei; Alex Roldan, Yeimar Gómez Andrade, Jackson Ragen, Nouhou Tolo, Jimmy Medranda (Kelyn Rowe 60′); Danny Leyva, Nicolás Lodeiro (C), Dylan Teves (Ethan Dobbelaere 59′), Léo Chú (Josh Atencio 72′); Fredy Montero (Reed Baker-Whiting 86′)

Substitutes Not Used: Andrew Thomas, Abdoulaye Cissoko, Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez

MEDIA NOTES

Alejandro Pozuelo made his 100th appearance for Toronto FC in all competitions, becoming the 14th player in club history to reach the milestone.

Jonathan Osorio made his 250th MLS regular season appearance for Toronto FC.

BOB BRADLEY – HEAD COACH, TORONTO FC

Q. Can you take us through the game, please?

I think the team of late, I’ve said many times, has done a good job in terms of tempo, but tonight it went the other way. Started the game slow they were able to clog the middle of the field. Took us too long to get into any kind of real tempo.

From that, we do a poor job on the first goal and we have to try to push the game. But we started the second half better. But again off of a long ball where we don’t win the duel, and then some — not doing well enough in the middle of the defense, they played through us. Frustrating night. I’m disappointed because I think most nights we still of late feel like things have gotten better but tonight the first half was not the case.

Q. Most of the game we were able to get the ball but we lack the direct shots. 61 minutes in, Bradley was able to do the first shot and at 83, Priso was able to do the second shot. Are you going to try to change the mentality of the team to probably try to do more direct shots?

You still have…