{"id":549592,"date":"2026-03-20T19:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:11:12","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549592\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/tag\/match-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match preview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">New DP forward Josh Sargent could earn his first MLS start when TFC hosts Columbus on Saturday.<\/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\/MD-1-vs.-RBNY_Sargent-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto FC vs. Columbus Crew: What you need to know\"\/><br \/>\n            TFC&#8217;s Josh Sargent. (Photo by Lucas Kschischang\/Toronto FC)<\/p>\n<p>Still stinging from last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/march-14-toronto-fc-new-york-red-bulls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disappointing draw<\/a> in its home opener, Toronto FC will try to get back on track this weekend with another tough test at BMO Field<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second of a nine-match homestand for Toronto (1-2-1), who&#8217;ll be idle until early April after this weekend due to the FIFA international break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was two dropped points [last week vs. the Red Bulls] but we understand we have eight more games at home, so if we can take a lot of points, that will set up the season really well for us,&#8221; winger Derrick Etienne Jr told TFC Republic this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know about Saturday&#8217;s match between Toronto and the Columbus Crew at BMO Field (1:00 p.m. ET\/Apple TV).\u00a0\u00a0\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 preview New DP forward Josh Sargent could earn his first MLS start when TFC hosts Columbus on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-549592","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\/549592","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=549592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}