{"id":523980,"date":"2026-03-09T06:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523980\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:03:12","slug":"late-goal-helps-toronto-fc-sink-fc-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523980\/","title":{"rendered":"Late goal helps Toronto FC sink FC Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/tag\/match-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match report<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">TFC snapped a two-game losing skid to open the MLS season with a rare win in Cincinnati on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/author\/john-molinaro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FvUog8Oe_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"John Molinaro\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TFCvs.CIN_-Aristiza--bal--1--2-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Late goal helps Toronto FC sink FC Cincinnati\"\/><br \/>\n            TFC&#8217;s Emilio Aristiz\u00e1bal. (Photo by Lucas Kschischang\/Toronto FC)<\/p>\n<p>            Toronto FC 1 (Sall\u00f3i 86\u2019), FC Cincinnati 0\u00a0\u00a0Sargent wasn\u2019t in matchday squad; Kuscevic started in his debut\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Sall\u00f3i bagged 1st goal for Reds since joining the club last month\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CINCINNATI \u2013 After two uneven displays to start the regular season, Toronto FC put forth a solid 90-minute performance on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The end result? A hard-fought and deserved 1-0 victory versus FC Cincinnati at TQL Stadium in the finale of a three-game road swing to open their 2026 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i scored a late winner for a TFC side that conceded six goals through its first two matches of the campaign (both losses) and hadn\u2019t recorded a clean sheet in 10 games, a streak that dated back to last August. Toronto&#8217;s previous win in Cincinnati came in 2020 when the Orange and Blue were still playing their home matches at Nippert Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>While this was far from perfect from TFC, it was a vast improvement from last weekend\u2019s disastrous showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/march-1-toronto-fc-vancouver-whitecaps\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against the Vancouver Whitecaps<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#b00707\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match report TFC snapped a two-game losing skid to open the MLS season with a rare win in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-523980","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\/523980","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=523980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}