Saturday, May 26, 2007

Toronto FC earns first road points. 2-2 vs. Columbus

Recap:
Toronto FC:
Dichio (27)
Brennan (49)

Columbus:
Herron (2, 36)

Summary:
A tenacious effort from Toronto FC saw them coming from behind on two occasions and battling the Columbus Crew to a 2-2 draw.

Jeff Cunningham was just short of brilliant, creating several glorious opportunities, but was unlucky to not convert them. Columbus was able to expose a depleted Toronto lineup and managed to control much of the play in the Toronto end. The absence of Carl Robinson and Andrew Boyens saw Ronnie O'Brien in the middle, Andy Welsh playing his off-wing, and Marco Reda and Chris Pozniak seeing time in the starting 11. The end result was confusion at midfield and ineffective defending which allowed several easy chances for the Columbus side. Strong efforts by Dichio and Cunningham were enough to make up for the lackluster performance behind them, and by the end of the match it seemed an unfortunate result for TFC to not come away with 3 points.

Total TFC MoM: Jeff Cunningham

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