What/When Toronto FC (5-5-15) will pay a visit to BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas to take on the Houston Dynamo (11-8-6) on Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 8:30 pm EDT. TV/Video This match will be shown live on TSN2 (http://www.tsn2.ca/) in Canada, Fox Sports Houston (http://www.foxsportshouston.com/, English) and KHLM-LD Channel 43 (http://www.multimedios.tv/, Spanish) in Houston, MLS Direct Kick and MLS Live (http://live.mlssoccer.com/, U.S. only). Radio/Audio CHUM AM 1050 (http://www.tsn.ca/toronto/) in Toronto; KBME AM 790 (http://www.sports790.com/, English) and KEYH AM 850 (http://www.laranchera850.com/, Spanish) in Houston. And The Match... http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/sites/mlsdigitalpr.drupalgardens.com/files/825houtor.pdf Five Match Trend TFC: LLDLL HOU: WWWLD Last Match vs. Houston July 28 vs. HOU - TFC 0 HOU 2 Supporters Group Match Thread Links U-Sector: http://z15.invisionfree.com/U_Sector/index.php?s=404f840964c51a7ce16cb539470b6178&showtopic=16486 Red Patch Boys: http://redpatchboys.ca/forums/showt...namo-vs-Toronto-FC-Sat-Aug-25-2012-8-30PM-EDT North End Elite: And While You're In Toronto... Why not stop by the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE, if you will!) after the match, or even before it? The CNE runs from August 17 to September 3 this year.
For the love of God, sit everyone for this game. There's only three more games that matter this season.
REFEREE: Paul Ward. AR1 (bench): Chris Strickland; AR2 (opposite): Mark Cahen; 4th: Leszek Stalmach MLS Career: 38 games; FC/gm: 23.2; Y/gm: 3.6; R: 11; pens: 7 INJURY REPORT: HOUSTON DYNAMO OUT: DF Alex Dixon (heat illness) QUESTIONABLE: MF Ricardo Clark (L ankle sprain) TORONTO FC OUT: GK Stefan Frei (L lower leg); FW Danny Koevermans (L knee ACL tear); DF Ty Harden (lower abdominal strain); DF Matt Stinson (R quadriceps strain); DF Doneil Henry (L knee tendinosis); MF Reggie Lambe (R knee MCL sprain) PROBABLE: DF Jeremy Hall (L ankle sprain) INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none SUSPENDED: none WARNINGS: SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: HOU: none TOR: Torsten Frings, Ashtone Morgan SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: HOU: Calen Carr, Corey Ashe, Macoumba Kandji TOR: Richard Eckersley, Ryan Johnson, Reggie Lambe, Terry Dunfield, Doneil Henry, Eric Hassli HEAD-TO-HEAD ALL-TIME (12 meetings): Houston Dynamo 4 wins, 18 goals … Toronto FC 3 wins, 12 goals … Draws 5 AT HOUSTON (6 meetings): Houston Dynamo 3 wins, 12 goals … Toronto FC 1 wins, 6 goals … Draws 2 2012 (MLS): 6/20: HOU 3, TOR 3 (Boswell 20; Bruin 73, 90 – Hall 13; Koevermans 22, 45) 7/28: TOR 0, HOU 2 (Carr 45; Ching 86) * The teams are meeting for the third time this season. They played to a wild 3-3 draw June 20 in Houston, as a late pair of goals from Will Bruin canceled out a first-half brace from TFC’s Danny Koevermans, then goals from Calen Carr and Brian Ching led the Dynamo to a 2-0 win, July 28 at BMO Field. * That was the Dynamo first win ever at BMO Field. TFC had taken two victories and three draws in the first five meetings all-time in Ontario. * Houston’s 2-0 victory in the final meeting between at Robertson Stadium, last July 9, was the Dynamo’s first vs. TFC since 2009. Toronto FC had won two in a row vs. Houston after two draws. * Coaches record: Dominic Kinnear vs. TOR: P12 W4 D5 L3 … Paul Mariner vs. HOU: P2 W0 D1 L1
Posted this on the houston forum but here's some relevant news Preview: Dynamo host TFC, try to stay unbeaten at home Houston look to make set piece advantage count vs. TFC TFC's Mariner: "We just have to put 90 minutes together"
OK, here's TFC's starting XI: On the bench: Kocic, Cann, Williams, Morgan, Avila. Kinda obvious that TFC has waved the white flag on this season and now concentrating on the CCL.
I don't think that luck will suffice for us... for us to get anything out of this match will require divine intervention.
this announcer is a gem, buddy just made it sound like tfc have a thiago silva on the bench in adrian cann
Perhaps.....but what we have is a natural CB that if he was playing tonight would allow Eck to, either, play RB or, preferably, rest for Tuesday.
well yea, but positioning aside, he definitely hasn't seen the man play this year, over valuing him huge. In other news (4-3-3) 1 - (4-4-2) 0
Sure.....but if you think this game's result is all about tactics.....you are vastly overrating TFC's talent. To have a chance against this particular 4-3-3.....TFC would need permission to play a 2-4-4-2 IMHO.
No I'm referring to the degression of going from a prospective, attractive possession style to plymouth route 1. And making a mockery of how the way our team going forward is the future, when Houston and KC are the worst teams in the league and are sieves at home...... Actually I am a complete pessimist of our teams talent and they severely lack any kind of decision making or off ball movement. Might be why mariner has knocked the difficulty of the puzzle down for the players but he's made no effort to bring in any technical players or players that are up to par.
The one common denominator of every version of TFC over these first 6 years has been a complete lack of off ball movement. We have never (no matter the system employed) had it and that is why I find all the discussion of systems kinda funny......no matter how you line 'em up......no matter who is on the sidelines.....they have to move off the ball to be effective.
It's funny you say that because our best ball movement came when we had to play with 10 men under Winter. It was quite baffling, but hey, this team is baffling.
FFS how many chances do we need to score? Houston is making careless mistake after careless mistake but we're letting them off the hook.
Emory is an overall nightmare, Hall defensively incapable, though worth it for CCL rest. frustrating, but not the frustrating & unwatchable type of game we've seen lately.
It's nice that it was the other team that had absolutely criminal defending. Three TFC players were wide open waiting for the cross and Dunfield was the one who headed it in. Two late headers for Dunfield now. How does he do it? The bad part is I think by now we know Avila is probably going to be gone as soon as Mariner can get him out, which is a shame. But even when Mariner wanted to play with some reserves he didnt give Avila a chance. Again, huge shame, but Mariner's the boss now and he thinks Wiedeman and Maund are better than Avila. So...yeah. At least we're rested for Santos