Pre-Match / Match / Post-Match Thread - Toronto FC vs. Houston Dynamo - July 28, 2012 (R)

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What/When

• Toronto FC (5-4-11) will return home to BMO Field to take on the Houston Dynamo (9-7-5) on Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 4:30 pm EDT.

TV/Video

• This match will be shown live on Gol TV Canada (http://www.goltv.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/).

Radio/Audio

• CJCL AM 590 (http://www.fan590.com/) 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/728torhou.pdf

Five Match Trend

• TFC: DLWWW
• HOU: DDWWW

Last Match vs. Houston

• June 20 at HOU - TFC 3 HOU 3

Supporters Group Match Thread Links

• U-Sector: http://z15.invisionfree.com/U_Sector/index.php?showtopic=16409
• Red Patch Boys: http://redpatchboys.ca/forums/showt...C-vs-Houston-Dynamo-Saturday-July-28th-4-30pm
• North End Elite: http://www.kickabola.com/showthread.php?t=22909

 

REFEREE: Drew Fischer. SAR (bench): Daniel Belleau; JAR (opposite): Claudio Badea; 4th: Sorin Stoica
MLS Career: 1 game; FC/gm: 29.0; Y/gm: 3.0; R: 0; pens: 0

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

HOUSTON DYNAMO
NONE REPORTED

INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none

WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD:
TOR: Ashtone Morgan
HOU: none
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS:
TOR: Ryan Johnson, Torsten Frings. Richard Eckersley, Reggie Lambe, Terry Dunfield
HOU: Calen Carr, Corey Ashe

HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (11 meetings): Toronto FC 3 wins, 12 goals …Houston Dynamo 3 wins, 16 goals … Draws 5
AT TORONTO (5 meetings): Toronto FC 2 wins, 6 goals … Houston Dynamo 0 wins, 4 goals … Draws 3
FUTURE MATCH: 8/25: Houston Dynamo vs. Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m. CT

* The teams are meeting for the second time this season. The Dynamo came storming back with two late goals to salvage a 3-3 draw in the first meeting, June 20 at BBVA Compass Stadium.
* 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.
* Toronto FC have never lost to Houston at BMO Field, with two victories and three draws in five meetings alltime in Ontario.
* Coaches record: Dominic Kinnear vs. TOR: P11 W3 D5 L3 … Paul Mariner vs. HOU: P1 W0 D1 L0

 

Negative. Frings is officially on three yellows. Either he must have had one erased for good behaviour (it is an incentive in MLS) or you guys must have counted a card in a non-league match.

 

OK, here's TFC's starting XI:



On the bench: Roberts, Harden, Maund, Hall, Stinson, Avila, Wiedeman.

 

Apparently not. Not sure if it's because of match-fitness.

 

Damn. 1-0 Houston off a corner kick set piece.

And that's how the first half ends.

 

Wiedeman now on for Amarikwa.