{"id":186445,"date":"2026-08-28T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/186445\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:29:08","slug":"toronto-hosts-new-york-city-fc-in-eastern-conference-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/186445\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto hosts New York City FC in Eastern Conference action"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City FC<\/a> (7-8-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto FC<\/a> (5-7-9, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Toronto FC +144, NYCFC +165, Draw +253; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Toronto and New York City FC take the pitch in conference play.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 4-5-7 against Eastern Conference opponents. Toronto is seventh in the Eastern Conference drawing 103 corner kicks, averaging 4.9 per game.<\/p>\n

NYCFC is 6-6-4 in conference matchups. NYCFC ranks third in the Eastern Conference allowing just 30 goals.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. The last meeting finished tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Daniel Salloi<\/a> has scored five goals with four assists for Toronto. Emilio Aristizabal<\/a> has two goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Ezequiel Fernandez Mercau<\/a> has scored 13 goals with two assists for NYCFC. Hannes Wolf<\/a> has three goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Toronto: 10-6-14, averaging 3.9 goals, 10.8 shots on goal and 11.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NYCFC: 16-4-10, averaging 4.8 goals, 13.8 shots on goal and 9.6 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Toronto: Richard Chukwu<\/a> (injured), Lazar Stefanovic<\/a> (injured), Nelson Palacio<\/a> (injured), Deandre Christopher Kerr (injured), Niklas Dorsch<\/a> (injured), Jonathan Osorio<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

NYCFC: Arnau Farnos (injured), Drew Baiera<\/a> (injured), Talles Magno<\/a> (injured), Adrian Alonso Martinez Batista (injured), Aiden O’Neill (injured), Kai Trewin<\/a> (injured), Hannes Wolf (injured), Thiago Martins Bueno (injured), Maxi Moralez<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City FC (7-8-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto FC (5-7-9, eighth in the Eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9035,58853,20547,58852,21637,58855,53803,58856,359,40368,46055,48939,48917,58854,48],"class_list":["post-186445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-daniel-salloi","tag-drew-baiera","tag-emilio-aristizabal","tag-hannes-wolf","tag-jonathan-osorio","tag-kai-trewin","tag-lazar-stefanovic","tag-maxi-moralez","tag-mls","tag-nelson-palacio","tag-niklas-dorsch","tag-nycfc","tag-richard-chukwu","tag-talles-magno","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186445","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=186445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}