Toronto FC: Toronto FC/Canada Soccer Discussion (2022 Edition) - Italy Edition

[TMLeafer]

like, how many posts?????

They think they're the Leafs or something?

 

[Deebo]

Costa Rica has to make up an 11 goal differential to catch Canada.

 

[William Hylander]

We clinched 4th, and just need a single point off of two games. Might as well break out the champagne

 

[Puckstuff]

We clinched 4th, and just need a single point off of two games. Might as well break out the champagne

Don’t even need a point. Even if Costa Rica and Panama win out we’re going to have them on goal differential unless they win like 6-0 and 5-0 and we lose both which is sooooo unlikely.

 

[djdev]

i was at the game. that second yellow card was bullshit. but it was one canada jersey vs like 5000 tico jerseys in my section, so they didnt listen lol

 

[KapG]

Just saw that red card. This is why I can’t enjoy soccer. They bumped shoulders and ol boy dropped like he had been shot and the ref fell for it. It’s just so pathetic. Shame too because when soccer does have its moments. That Canadian player who got the red card should know better too. Wtf.

 

[Advanced stats]

Just saw that red card. This is why I can’t enjoy soccer. They bumped shoulders and ol boy dropped like he had been shot and the ref fell for it. It’s just so pathetic. Shame too because when soccer does have its moments. That Canadian player who got the red card should know better too. Wtf.

Yep, I've been rooting for this team for a while but I can fully admit that the diving is the biggest turn off, especially for North American sports fans who are used to some more rough and tumble sports where physical contact is actually encouraged

 

[Bjindaho]

Just saw that red card. This is why I can’t enjoy soccer. They bumped shoulders and ol boy dropped like he had been shot and the ref fell for it. It’s just so pathetic. Shame too because when soccer does have its moments. That Canadian player who got the red card should know better too. Wtf.

That's a yellow by rule. He initiated contact.

I honestly thought the challenge on Kaye might have been a red (the one that had him down)

 

[fancy lad]

They got outconcacafed last night plain and simple. It sucks, but it is what it is and Kaye should have kept his composure.

Sunday should be amazing.

 

[LeafChief]

Kaye with a mindless play.

Was really impressed with the way Canada pressed in the second half with only 10 men.

 

[Twine Tickler]

Only person to blame on that play is Mark-Anthony Kaye. He's on a caution already, you just cannot initiate any contact there. It wasn't much, but this is football, you have to expect a sell job on every play like that. I don't really understand the attempt on the broadcast to villainize Johan Venegas for doing what pretty well every footballer since the beginning of time has, and will continue to do in that exact scenario. I don't like the sell job either, but you have to know that is coming. Like it or not, selling fouls is part of the game. Thankfully with VAR it is starting to slowly take out the egregious flops, but they will still always side on foul if there is any contact. And I mean any contact. Regardless of how dramatic and overblown the player flops thereafter.

Away, on a caution already, and only needing a draw to secure your country's first WC birth in 36 years... you just have to be smarter. The blame rests solely on MAK. It was a selfish play on a night that could/should have been historic. It's really that simple. I hate to single out 1 player in a team game, but unfortunately MAK put his ego before the team in that moment.

Get the result on Sunday in front of the entire country, and get the ovation you rightly deserve. You have to look at that game on Sunday as the biggest game in Canadian Football history. This squad has transformed the way our country will view football forever. It sounds hyperbolic, but it's just true. They have scratched and clawed for every point and won the country over every game. They are as likeable of a team as I can ever remember cheering for in any sport. They never give up.

Even in defeat last night, that was about as hard as you could have ever asked your team to fight when down a man for 2/3rds of the match. There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed about that loss. If anything they should be proud of the fact that they pushed the pace for the majority of the game and realistically deserved a better fate.

Make Sunday special fellas!

 

[Clark4Ever]

The only plausible explanation for last night's result given the way we totally dominated the second half is divine intervention.

This was meant to be clinched at home on Sunday.

 

[CabanaBoy5]

Massive upset by Macedonia.

Assuming Canada doesn't totally collapse and qualifies, I wonder if all the Azzurri fans in Woodbridge and Little Italy will switch allegiances to the red and white.

Already there my friend. I have to dig up my Canada car flags from the Canada Cup in ‘87 lol

 

[Beaumaris]

Can Canada still qualify with a loss tonight?

Where have you been for the last six months,the North Pole ?

 

[djdev]

we looked really nervous to start the game imo, never seen canada play that timid, funny that after the red card they outplayed cr by a fair margin despite the goal against.

all the fans in the stadium were oohing and awwing at canadas skill, i kept hearing people around me complain that we were too fast lol

 

[Clark4Ever]

Hopefully, today will mark the most significant accomplishment in the history of the CMNT.

 

[Burnie97]

Let's go Canada. It being fairly cold should work in their favour too.

Just play their game and this should definitely be a W.

 

[Deebo]

 

[TMLeafer]

Here we goo

 

[LeafChief]

Get it done.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Larin! 1-0 Canada!

 

[fahad203]

Larin! 1-0 Canada!

We are like in their box entire game

Got get one more

 

[fahad203]

Get it done.

These are the other leafs.
Theyll ce through a big game

 

[fahad203]

Buchanen had to finish that

 

[Burnie97]

Nah this team is winning. They're good. Crowd is great.