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ET kickoff.Įcuador's Angulo stunned Toronto in the third minute, curling a superb right-footed shot from just outside the penalty box into the far corner past Alex Bono. The 65,000-capacity venue hosted WrestleMania 37 on April 10-11. The game was played behind closed doors at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium, home to the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Toronto, in contrast, collected just one point from its first two games of the MLS season, losing 4-2 to CF Montreal and tying Vancouver 2-2. Not a lot room for error.''Ĭruz Azul came into the match atop the Liga MX standings at 13-2-1 and unbeaten in 16 games (14-0-2) in all competitions. They can play â¦ They have not lost much in this last year,'' Armas said of Cruz Azul. The Mexican side outshot Toronto 18-5 (10-3 in shots) on target. Jonathan Osorio replied for Toronto, which moved the ball around but did not manufacture many chances.

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The series winner will face either MLS champion Columbus or Mexico's Monterrey in the semifinal of CONCACAF's flagship club competition.īryan Angulo had two goals and Pablo Aguilar, a big presence at centre back alongside Juan Escobar, also scored for Cruz Azul. We're going to go there and give our best.'' You can tell they're far into their season. 'The second leg's going to be a tall task to turn it around,'' conceded veteran fullback Justin Morrow. The result means TFC will have to score at least three goals and restrict the Cruz Azul attack next Tuesday in the second leg at Mexico City's famed Azteca Stadium. It'll be hard to win soccer games when that stuff's not right. 'And you can talk about the other games too where we let ourselves down. 'Clearly we have work to do there and it cost us tonight,'' he added. 'Of course (Cruz Azul) is a good team but we let ourselves down, defending our (penalty) box again,'' said Armas.

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Toronto was vulnerable on set pieces, not for the first time this young season, with goals coming off both a corner and free kick.

Toronto FC coach Chris Armas knew there was not a lot of room for error against Mexican league leader Cruz Azul, a team in season and on a roll.īut mistakes costs his MLS side dearly in a 3-1 loss Tuesday evening in the first leg of their Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal.