Toronto FC host NYCFC at BMO Field on Saturday, August 29 (7:30 PM ET \/ 6:30 PM CT \/ 4:30 PM PT).<\/p>\n
Toronto FC head into this one with a clean bill of health and a front line that has been doing the damage all season. D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i leads the way with five goals from his forty-three shots, with Joshua Sargent close behind on four goals, and Derrick Etienne and Emilio Aristiz\u00e1bal both chipping in three apiece to give BMO Field a genuine attacking spine. NYCFC arrive with no fitness concerns of their own, leaning on Axel Ojeda and Hannes Wolf, both on five goals, while Keaton Parks and Talles Magno add two each from midfield and out wide.<\/p>\n
This looks a tight, low-scoring affair rather than a shootout. Toronto sit tenth in the Eastern Conference<\/a> with twenty-four points from twenty-one games, a position that still leaves them in the thick of the playoff picture, while NYCFC occupy seventh in the same conference. Toronto’s form reads L D W D W, capped by a 2-1 win away at Inter Miami, and that momentum, allied to Sall\u00f3i’s continued sharpness in front of goal, should be enough to edge a tight contest by the finest of margins, with NYCFC’s threat expected to go unrewarded.<\/p>\n\n\n