{"id":179385,"date":"2026-08-23T04:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/179385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:24:12","slug":"josh-sargent-derrick-etienne-jr-spark-toronto-to-2-1-victory-over-inter-miami-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/179385\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Sargent, Derrick Etienne Jr. spark Toronto to 2-1 victory over Inter Miami :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Josh Sargent and Derrick Etienne Jr. scored second-half goals three minutes apart and Toronto FC held on for a 2-1 victory over Inter Miami on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team found the net until the rookie Sargent scored in the 59th minute to give Toronto the lead. D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i and Etienne had assists on Sargent&#8217;s fourth goal. Sall\u00f3i&#8217;s helper was his seventh and Etienne collected his third.<\/p>\n<p>Etienne scored for the third this season \u2014 unassisted three minutes later for a two-goal lead that helped Toronto win in Miami for the first time<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi cut it to 2-1 in the 82nd minute with his 14th goal this season and his 64th in 71 career appearances. Rodrigo De Paul and Maximiliano Falc\u00f3n had assists.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Gavran saved two shots for Toronto (5-7-9).<\/p>\n<p>Dayne St. Clair finished without a save for Inter Miami (11-4-6), which falls to 0-2-2 in August. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto is 2-0-2 in its last four matches and 2-1-4 since July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami posted a 4-2 victory in Toronto back in May and leads the all-time series 9-3-2.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUp next<\/p>\n<p>Toronto: Hosts New York City FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Miami: Hosts CF Montreal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>\n                See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here\n              <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Josh Sargent and Derrick Etienne Jr. scored second-half goals three minutes apart and Toronto FC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7013,1111,48],"class_list":["post-179385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179385","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=179385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}