Pre-Match / Match / Post-Match Thread - Toronto FC vs. Colorado Rapids - July 18, 2012 (R)

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What/When

• Toronto FC (4-4-11) will return home to BMO Field to take on the Colorado Rapids (7-1-11) on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm EDT.

TV/Video

• This match will be shown live on Sportsnet (http://www.sportsnet.ca/, Ontario region and Sportsnet One) in Canada, Altitude Sports and Entertainment Network (http://www.altitude.tv/) in Denver, MLS Direct Kick and MLS Live (http://live.mlssoccer.com/).

Radio/Audio

• CJCL AM 590 (http://www.fan590.com/) in Toronto.

And The Match...

• http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/sites/mlsdigitalpr.drupalgardens.com/files/718torcol.pdf

Five Match Trend

• TFC: DDLWW
• COL: LWLLL

Last Match vs. Colorado

• September 17, 2011 vs. COL - TFC 2 COL 1

Supporters Group Match Thread Links

• U-Sector: http://z15.invisionfree.com/U_Sector/index.php?showtopic=16382
• Red Patch Boys: http://redpatchboys.ca/forums/showt...ME-Thread-TFC-vs-Colorado-July-18-Wed-7-00-PM
• North End Elite: http://www.kickabola.com/showthread.php?t=22897

 

REFEREE: Ismail Elfath. SAR (bench): Peter Manikowski; JAR (opposite): Craig Lowry; 4th: Geoff Gamble
MLS Career: 2 games; FC/gm: 22.5; Y/gm: 2.5; R: 2; pens: 2

INJURY REPORT:
TORONTO FC
OUT: GK Stefan Frei (L lower leg); DF Jeremy Hall (L hamstring strain); FW Danny Koevermans (L ACL tear)
QUESTIONABLE: FW Nicholas Lindsay (L knee surgery recovery); DF Ty Harden (R adductor strain); DF Adrian Cann (R knee sprain)

COLORADO RAPIDS
OUT: DF Anthony Wallace (L Achilles tear); MF Pablo Mastroeni (headaches)
PROBABLE: MF Jamie Smith (R ACL tear); FW Conor Casey (R hamstring strain); FW Omar Cummings (L ankle sprain)

INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none

WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD:
TOR: Ryan Johnson, Torsten Frings. Ashtone Morgan
COL: Jeff Larentowicz
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS:
TOR: Richard Eckersley, Reggie Lambe
COL: Jaime Castrillon, Tyrone Marshall, Martin Rivero, Tyson Wahl

HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (10 meetings): Toronto FC 6 wins, 13 goals … Colorado Rapids 3 wins, 10 goals …Draws 1
AT TORONTO (5 meetings): Toronto FC 5 wins, 11 goals … Colorado Rapids 0 wins, 5 goals … Draws 0
LAST YEAR (MLS)
5/22: COL 0, TOR 0
9/17: TOR 2, COL 1 (Koevermans 52, 60 – Nyassi 69)

* Toronto FC has five wins in five all-time meetings with Colorado at BMO Field, including a 2-1 win in the second meeting a season ago.
* TFC hasn’t won on their last three trips to Commerce City, the teams playing to a scoreless draw last year after the Rapids won each of the two previous seasons.
* Coaches record: Paul Mariner vs. COL: first game … Oscar Pareja vs. TOR: first game

 

OK, here's TFC's starting XI:



On the bench: Roberts, Williams, Maund, Stinson, Cordon, Wiedeman, Makubuya.

 

Noted and fixed.

Might have to be now that Koevermans is gone for the year.

 

That's not necessarily a bad thing!

 

Can we trade Johnson RIGHT F--KING NOW?

Can't believe TFC got rid of Soolsma for this.

 

Who knew that the ghost of Chad Barrett is still haunting BMO Field? It currently wears number 9.

 

And guess who just scored? Conor Casey.

1-0 Colorado.

We officially no longer have respect for you, Ryan Johnson.

 

It's the beer, dude. Always is.

 

It should be 1-1, but at halftime, it's 1-0 Colorado.