{"id":197867,"date":"2026-09-06T05:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197867\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:11:14","slug":"sargent-records-his-1st-career-hat-trick-as-toronto-fc-rallies-to-tie-the-fire-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197867\/","title":{"rendered":"Sargent records his 1st career hat trick as Toronto FC rallies to tie the Fire 4-4"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Derrick Etienne Jr. scored the tying goal in second-half stoppage time and Josh Sargent<\/a> recorded his first career hat trick as Toronto FC<\/a> rallied for a 4-4 draw against the Chicago Fire<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Toronto (5-7-11) allowed the first goal and came back to earn at least a draw for the eighth time this season.<\/p>\n

Chicago (11-6-5) played to a draw for the third straight match.<\/p>\n

Sargent scored his first goal on a strike from the center of the box in the 27th minute. Nine minutes later, Sargent sent a shot past Chicago goalkeeper Chris Brady<\/a> for a 2-1 lead. Sargent broke a 2-all tie in the 54th for Toronto’s first hat trick since Federico Bernardeschi<\/a> did so against Montreal on May 18, 2024.<\/p>\n

But a pair of defensive breakdowns led to Chicago reclaiming the lead. <\/p>\n

Haile-Selassie scored his second goal of the match for Chicago shortly after goalkeeper Luka Gavran<\/a> made an initial save from distance but was caught out of position on the second chance.<\/p>\n

Robert Lewandowski<\/a>, who played his first professional match on Canadian soil, made it 4-3 Chicago in the 63rd.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Chicago: Hosts Miami on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Toronto: Stays home to play Nashville on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Derrick Etienne Jr. scored the tying goal in second-half stoppage time and Josh Sargent recorded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8202,33068,10510,18564,5383,359,61945,48],"class_list":["post-197867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-chicago","tag-chris-brady","tag-event_recap","tag-josh-sargent","tag-luka-gavran","tag-mls","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197867","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=197867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}