Toronto FC (3-4-5, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte FC (4-6-3, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Charlotte FC -134, Toronto FC +316, Draw +280; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Emilio Aristizabal leads Toronto into a matchup with Charlotte FC fresh off of a two-goal performance against Inter Miami.<\/p>\n
Charlotte is 3-3-2 against Eastern Conference opponents. Charlotte has a 14-22 record in one-goal matches.<\/p>\n
Toronto is 2-2-3 against conference opponents. Toronto is eighth in the Eastern Conference with 53 shots on goal, averaging 4.4 per game.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pep Biel has six goals and four assists for Charlotte. Idan Gorno has scored three goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Daniel Salloi has scored four goals with three assists for Toronto. Aristizabal has three goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Charlotte: 10-7-13, averaging 4.8 goals, 10.8 shots on goal and 12.0 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Toronto: 18-4-8, averaging 5.4 goals, 12.9 shots on goal and 18.3 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Charlotte: Henry Kessler (injured), Harry Toffolo (injured).<\/p>\n
Toronto: Matheus Pereira de Souza (injured), Jules-Anthony Vilsaint (injured), Theodor Corbeanu (injured), Josh Sargent (injured), Djordje Mihailovic (injured), Henry Wingo (injured), Jose Cifuentes (injured), Benjamin Kuscevic (injured).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto FC (3-4-5, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Charlotte FC (4-6-3, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9042,20548,7304,9035,9040,20547,20553,20550,9041,20551,7312,20549,18564,20552,9039,8478,205,49,20554,48,330],"class_list":["post-46326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-benjamin-kuscevic","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-fc","tag-daniel-salloi","tag-djordje-mihailovic","tag-emilio-aristizabal","tag-harry-toffolo","tag-henry-kessler","tag-henry-wingo","tag-idan-gorno","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-jose-cifuentes","tag-josh-sargent","tag-jules-anthony-vilsaint","tag-matheus-pereira","tag-mls-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-theodor-corbeanu","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326","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=46326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}