{"id":168221,"date":"2026-08-14T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/168221\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:13:10","slug":"toronto-fcs-jonathan-osorio-suffers-knee-injury-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/168221\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto FC’s Jonathan Osorio suffers knee injury in training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto FC captain Jonathan Osorio will miss the Reds\u2019 return to BMO Field on Saturday<\/a> after suffering a knee injury in training, according to head coach Robin Fraser. <\/p>\n

Osorio picked up the injury while \u201cscoring a really good goal,\u201d Fraser said to reporters including Waking The Red on Friday. \u201cIt was the end of a good move, and just tweaked his knee a bit.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fraser said that he doesn\u2019t expect Osorio to be ready for Saturday\u2019s match, but he also doesn\u2019t think he will be out for an extended period of time. <\/p>\n

Osorio has played nearly every single minute for the Reds this season, going the full 90 in 17 of the club\u2019s 18 MLS matches and providing a trio of assists for his teammates. The one exception is that he missed Toronto FC\u2019s scoreless draw with CF Montreal in the first game coming out of the summer\u2019s World Cup break due to yellow card accumulation. <\/p>\n

Osorio was also with Jesse Marsch\u2019s Canada squad over the summer, making a couple of appearances at his second World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s serious like four months,\u201d Fraser said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s like that. As somebody who\u2019s done that quite a few times, MCLs that way, they can just be persistent or can linger a bit. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a serious injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Courtesy: Sean Pollock\/Waking The Red<\/p>\n

In more positive news, Toronto FC\u2019s early-season injury crisis otherwise appears to finally be nearing its conclusion as they look to turn their form \u2014 which was in many ways affected by player availability \u2014 around. <\/p>\n

Djordje Mihailovic is back in the starting lineup and on the scoresheet<\/a>, and both left back Matheus Pereira and defender Lazar Stefanovic are back in full training after long-term injuries of their own. <\/p>\n

Defensive midfielder Nelson Palacio, one of Toronto FC\u2019s summer acquisitions, is finally nearing full fitness and full training with the club after joining from Real Salt Lake as well. He \u201cis going to be in full training maybe next week\u201d according to Fraser, as will defender Nicksoen Gomis. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s weird, I said to one of the trainers the other day, I\u2019m looking around the field, going, \u2018Who\u2019s in the training room right now? Basically, no one,\u2019 and it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve been close to this healthy,\u201d Fraser added. \u201cIt feels like a rebirth, really, to have so many guys available that we haven\u2019t had available most of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like when we sit down and do videos, the room feels so full because we have so many guys available,\u201d he said. \u201cI think training has been really sharp because of it. I can\u2019t speak enough about what competition does for a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having a selection dilemma is a good problem to have for Fraser, who had to call players up from Toronto FC II almost every week in the first few months of the season. An important match against the Revs on Saturday is the perfect test to see where a new-look TFC side stacks up against one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Related Reading: Toronto FC \u2018have big responsibility\u2019 to take advantage of World Cup momentum at BMO Field: Laryea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto FC captain Jonathan Osorio will miss the Reds\u2019 return to BMO Field on Saturday after suffering a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5310,17,12526,21637,318,359,5312,48,330],"class_list":["post-168221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-bmo-field","tag-canada","tag-canmnt","tag-jonathan-osorio","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-mls","tag-tfc","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}