AFTER 90: Pitch invasions

"Concrete jungle where no dreams are made no..."

 

NEW YORK VS. TORONTO

RED BULL ARENA

FIRST HALF:
KICK OFF - Listen, we know we bang on a load lately about the whole Argos to BMO kerfuffle but until we hear different we'll be a bit like a dog with a bone. It is clouding a lot of our (ok, tiny scraps) of optimism for the future of the club. Often, we and fellow worriers have been told to "relax" about the possibility of a CFL stadium share and that it's "no big deal". Usually by Leafs fans. We couldn't resist tonight's fixture, not far from where Giants Stadium stood - the ultimate example of gridiron stomping on football - to illustrate just how difficult we find it to watch the world's sport on the field of parts of North America's sport. But in text form!

ARGONAUTS 

 

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 10' - Thierry Henry being a nuisance as usual.

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 18' - Mark Bloom in his TFC debut not playing too badly.

 

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27' - Andrew Wiedeman goes just wide of the New York goal. Close

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 32' - GOAL: New York - Thierry Henry loses Bloom and taps in a hard cross.

NEW YORK 1 - TORONTO 0

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43' - Kosuke Kimura very close to doubling New York's lead. 

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HALFTIME: NEW YORK 1 - TORONTO 0

 

THE

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SECOND HALF:

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47' - Bloom tries to find Wiedeman as TFC come out fast 

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53' - SUB: Jonas Elmer on for Justin Braun 

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58' - YELLOW CARD: Steven Caldwell for hauling down Dax McCarty 

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65' - Joe Bendik forced to make a big save on a charging Bradley Wright-Phillips. 

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 75' - SUB: Bright Dike on for Andrew Wiedeman

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78' - Bit of a scrap on the pitch as Jonathan Osorio plays a bit rough with Kimura. 

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 80' - GOAL: New York - Fabian Espindola with a looping header over some bumbling TFC defenders.

NEW YORK 2 - TORONTO 0

85' - Bright Dike tries to open his TFC account but saved well.

89' - SUB: Kyle Bekker on for Alvaro Rey

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ROUGH RIDERS/ ROUGHRIDERS

 

FULL TIME: NEW YORK 2 - TORONTO 0

 

PLAYER RATINGS: Joe Bendik 6 / Mark Bloom 6 / Steven Caldwell  6.5/  Gale Agbossoumonde 5.5 / Ashtone Morgan 5.5/ Alvaro Rey 6.5 (Kyle Bekker N/A) / Jeremy Hall 5.5 / Jonathan Osorio 6 / Bobby Convey 5 / Andrew Wiedeman 6 (Bright Dike 6)  / Justin Braun 4.5 (Jonas Elmer 5)

THE YORKIES' TFC MAN OF THE MATCH:
Alvaro Rey

THE BATH:
Well there you have it, not the worst of TFC performances. Not great, but we've seen worse. But, I bet reading it with all those gridiron lines sure was annoying and took away from our usual sparkling journalism didn't it?

When MLSE announces the BMO Field expansion plans and shows you lovely architectural diagrams alongside information of the new cutting-edge artificial surface, remember this. And know that when the CFL season starts in early summer and TFC and the Argos play 7 days apart or less that it won't be far off reading this. There is not a stadium in the world that has figured out to completely scrub off lines from dual sports. MLSE sure ain't full of science geniuses.

So yes, TFC looked a bit better tonight and may indeed improve in the future. However, if watching a match at BMO Field will be akin to reading the above... why bother?