{"id":552411,"date":"2026-03-22T02:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552411\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:52:13","slug":"toronto-fc-battles-back-to-beat-columbus-crew-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552411\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto FC battles back to beat Columbus Crew at home"},"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 didn\u2019t receive a goal from Josh Sargent in his MLS debut, but they still earned a win vs. the Crew 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\/TFCvs.CLB_Zimmerman-1.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto FC battles back to beat Columbus Crew at home\"\/><br \/>\n            TFC&#8217;s Walker Zimmerman. (Photo by Lucas Kschischang\/Toronto FC)<\/p>\n<p>            Toronto FC 2 (Cifuentes 56\u2019; Zimmerman 83\u2019), Columbus Crew 1 (Abou Ali 4\u2019)\u00a0 \u00a0Jonathan Osorio earned his 400th appearance for TFC \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New DP Josh Sargent went 45 minutes in his 1st MLS start \u00a0D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i has 3 goal contributions in 5 games in 2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Toronto FC needs all hands on deck this season as it faces an uphill battle with a new-look roster.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Cifuentes and Walker Zimmerman answered the call on Saturday afternoon by scoring their first goals for TFC help them earn a come-from-behind 2-1 win against the Columbus Crew at BMO Field.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TFC (2-2-1) are now unbeaten in three games after beginning their 2026 MLS campaign with back-to-back road losses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was an important result for the Reds against one of their Eastern Conference rivals, as it was the second of nine consecutive home matches. If Toronto has any hope of being in the playoff mix this year, they have to come out of this extended homestand with as many points as possible.\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 report TFC didn\u2019t receive a goal from Josh Sargent in his MLS debut, but they still earned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-552411","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\/552411","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=552411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}