You tie a tie, tie a bow, tie your shoes, tie fighters, tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree.
You draw a picture, draw water from a well, draw a name out of a hat, draw a bridge, draw the strings in your bathing suit so it doesn't fall down.
You get a point across, you get a point on a needle, point form for a list, point your finger, point your toe.
With all the varied meanings of the word, it has lately been one of the answers to the following question : how did TFC do last week? A tie/a draw/a point.
With Toronto in second place for the Cascadia Cup on 3 points (thank you Portland), a single point doesn't help much. 3 points are a must!
Predictions didn't look too good as most people has 1-0. 2-0, 3-1 for Seattle. 2-2 draw and someone was optimistic enough to call 1-0 Toronto. Oh, the faithful...
2 - Seattle come flying out the gate as Fucito is on goal and fires wide. Oh if they can only hold on for 88 more minutes...
11 - Yourassowsky gets into the box, beats his defender, next touch he pushes it too far, flops down looking for the penalty. If that had actually worked for you your entire career, you'd be playing for Hannover in Germany right now.
16 - Are high crosses to the 5 foot winger truly a good idea? Discuss...
20 - YELLOW - Harden gets booked for his participation that had Grampa Keller on the pitch
26 - YELLOW - Borman goes into the books for his part in an altercation.
36 - Good pressure by the Robins in the Seattle 18 as the ball gets bounced around while forcing Keller to make a few very quality saves. Not bad for a pensioner.
43 - Sturgis free kick bends over the wall, but not quite under the bar.
HALF-TIME MOOD : Optimistic, but Soolsma and Yourassowsky are showing some clear signs of uselessness. TORONTO 0 - SEATTLE 0
45 - SUB - Sturgis out, Cordon in. Strange as Sturgis played a fairly decent half.
49 - Seattle are now down to ten as Kennedy earns his second yellow and first shower.
56 - Plata runs at a defender near the goal line, beats him and slides a ball right across the face of goal. Now, if Soolsma has stopped marking his defender and took a step forward, it would say GOAL in front of this time stamp. Any guesses?
65 - YELLOW - Yourassowsky is deservedly booked for a mistimed challenge.
70 - SUB - Martina comes on for Stevanovic. Yet Soolsma and Yourassowsky are still on the pitch. Curious...
75 - Eckersley cleans up a bit of a Harden caused mess as Seattle were nearly in on goal except for a confident challenge near the box. I almost went a match without having anything bad to say about Harden.
82 - OMG MARTINA!!!! AAAAAH!!!! CROSSBAR!!!! AAAAAAAHhhhhh... sooooo close you could taste it.
89 - Lets see, opposition late in game gets free kick outside of the box. I have seen this before many many times...
90 - GOAL - I did foreshadow this would happen, not because I'm a pessimist, but because this is the very TFC we keep stumping up season tickets for. In all fairness, it was a very quality free kick by Montero around the wall and well out of Frei's reach.
4 minutes of extra time.
FULL TIME : Toronto 0, Seattle 1
Man of the Match : Plata did well so he gets the nod, but I appreciated Doneil Henry's efforts
Goat of the Game : Soolsma. Must be a Flemish dialect for "pilon".
Ref Rating : 3.5 out of 5. A little card happy, but they kept it down the middle as best as possible.
Updated Cascadia Cup standings
Seattle 5
Vancouver 4
Toronto 3
Portland 1
Team Ratings : Frei 6, Eckersley 6.5, Henry 6.5, Harden 6, Borman 5.5, Sturgis 6.5 (Cordon 5.5), Yourassowsky 6 (Gargan N/A), Soolsma 4.5, Santos 6, Plata 6.5
Soolsma begs for the ball and his offensive maneuver is to go backwards then give up possession... Why Soolsma played the whole game is baffling... I know we're tough on talent supply right now, but c'mon... Cordon could play well if he went heads up... no capos for the first half was kinda nice... Keller, for all of his geezery, is still very good... there was a period where it looked like players were ignoring the wide open Plata... so much for another draw, huh?
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