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CHICAGO – Welcome, Toronto FC
Specifically, welcome back, Chris Mavinga and Jozy Altidore. The club seemed a little more like its old, dominant self in Saturday's 2-1 road victory over Chicago fire with best defender Mavinga and Altidore targeting in the lineup for the first time since Several weeks.
5-11-4, winning on the road for the second time in 20 games.
Mavinga was a picture of calm and excellence at the back in his first appearance since May 25.
"(Mavinga) reads the game very well." He is an aggressive defender, he makes solid decisions, his natural left foot makes it much easier to play things, which is never to do it ", said head coach Greg Vanney at the Toronto Sun. to be underrated – it helps us keep some of those things connected there. "
Altidore brought physicality and a much needed secondary pointing threat in his first league match since March 30, 19459004 .
Altidore's presence seemed to open up all sorts of extra space for Sebastian Giovinco, who showed his world-clbad touch by opening the scoring in 47 minute. Giovinco cleverly shot a long pbad from captain Michael Bradley to his back heel, then attempted to put a defender out of position, giving himself the space needed to throw a low shot Richard Sanchez.
"As for Jozy, he's huge," Vanney continued. "Not only in size, but what it does for our group to hold the ball, to attract attention, which frees Seba a bit more, but also its intelligence from the front to the Back, helping in terms of defensive form In choosing the right times to enter the right spaces, there are so many things that I could go on listing them. "
" That's why he and Seba are the best strikers in the league.They complement each other so well, and when one misses, the other misses him too. "
We have seen this week and this week in l? Altidore's absence while Giovinco looked like a different player from perhaps the best of all Chicago MLS, 6-11-5 and now only four points on the Reds before BMO Field's return match next week , fought back after Giovinco's goal of equalizing in the 62 nd minute, but TFC was malcha to be tied after doing his best in two thirds of his career.
The tying goal came out of a double deflection Nemanja Nikolic, winner of the kick, 10 of the season
But Toronto won its first victory in seven games (including four defeats) with courage and determination, reacting quickly to what could have been a deflation.
Red Hot Jonathan Osorio beat goalkeeper Sanchez to the ball then discouraged around a defender to score in 67 minute and Toronto closed the welcome win.
Altidore was pumped to be back, but he admitted that he was rusty and would need a few minutes to get back in top form. He also sent a message to those who wrote Toronto because of the hole in which he found himself.
"Believe it or not, we are still alive," said Altidore in his scramble with the media.
"People count us, but we are not, it's the kind of game that we can tackle … you get behind the eight-ball, that's a big challenge for us, but I think we are ready for that. "
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Offensive midfielder Victor Vazquez was another happy turned back, lining Altidore at the 80th minute after missing the previous four games due to injury.
Vazquez is another crucial piece for the club and it will be interesting to see "(19659002) Defenders Drew Moor and Auro are also getting closer
" Even to get a few minutes of Victor, he enters again, organizes the match, helps us keep possession, "Vanney told the Sun. Our hope is that we can continue to increase the number of minutes that he can get, and then bring back guys like Drew and Auro over the next two weeks.
Toronto to host Ottawa Fury on Wednesday after meeting with youngster,
CORNER KICKS
The record between the two teams was 9-9-9 at all the time … What is the quality of Josef Martinez from Atlanta United? ? It makes the game look like a video game and led Atlanta to the top of the MLS rankings. Martinez scored for his fifth straight game Saturday, scoring a hat trick and now has 41 goals in 42 regular season games. Martinez has an MLS record six hat tricks already in 1.5 seasons. Sheesh. Chicago's Nikolic is not left out either. He scored his 34 th in 52 MLS games on Saturday night, an evening where the 15,177 fans won a match in his own image.
