{"id":491460,"date":"2026-02-22T05:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:56:07","slug":"toronto-fc-drops-season-opener-to-fc-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491460\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto FC drops season-opener to FC Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Petar Musa scored two goals on Saturday night, Logan Farrington added a goal and an assist, and FC Dallas beat Toronto FC 3-2 in the Major League Soccer season opener for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s Djordje Mihailovic and Derrick Etienne Jr. each scored a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Musa flicked a header off a cross played by Farrington, inside the left post from the centre of the area to cap the scoring in the 79th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Collodi had five saves for Dallas, while Toronto goalkeeper Luka Gavran did not record a save.<\/p>\n<p>Musa opened the scoring in the ninth minute, but Mihailovic answered with a goal off a perfectly-placed through ball played by Jonathan Osorio in the 15th to make it 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Farrington cut back to evade two defenders and then slipped a shot from the centre of the area inside the right post to give Dallas a 2-1 lead in the 38th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Etienne put away the rebound off a shot by D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i to make it 2-2 in the 67th.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto: Visits the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas: Hosts Nashville SC on Saturday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Petar Musa scored two goals on Saturday night, Logan Farrington added a goal and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-491460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}