Toronto FC (3W-7L-8T, 17 points) wrapped up their four-match road trip with a tightly contested 1-1 draw against New York City FC (7W-6L-5T, 26 points) on Friday evening, as Djordje Mihailovic\u2019s first-half equalizer cancelled out Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s early opener at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n
Toronto FC Head Coach Robin Fraser made three changes from last weekend\u2019s road eleven against D.C. United with new acquisition Niklas Dorsch, Djordje Mihailovic and Josh Sargent coming in for Zane Monlouis, Derrick Etienne Jr. and Emilio\u00a0Aristiz\u00e1bal.<\/p>\n
New York City FC broke the deadlock early after Richie Laryea was judged to have brought down Agust\u00edn Ojeda inside the penalty area in the sixth minute of play. Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez converted from the spot despite Luka Gavran nearly producing the save, as the Argentinian midfielder’s 13th goal of the MLS campaign drew him level for the league\u2019s Golden Boot lead.<\/p>\n
Toronto FC responded on the stroke of half-time when Djordje Mihailovic converted from close range after goalkeeper Matt Freese could only parry D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i’s strike into his path.<\/p>\n
The first-half stoppage time equalizer, which began with Josh Sargent capitalizing on a defensive mistake, marked Mihailovic\u2019s second goal of the 2026 MLS season following his recent return from an injury lay-off since April.<\/p>\n
The Boys in Blue threatened to restore their lead shortly after the restart but were denied twice in quick succession, as shot-stopper Luka Gavran produced a pair of sharp reaction saves to keep out Talles Magno and Andr\u00e9s Perea following a 54th minute corner.<\/p>\n
The Reds found the back of the net in the 73rd minute when substitute Derrick Etienne Jr.’s cut-back was turned home by D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i. However, the celebrations were cut short as the assistant referee’s offside flag ruled out the Hungarian’s first-time finish.<\/p>\n
Both Eastern Conference clubs pushed for a late winner at the iconic Yankee Stadium, but neither side could find the breakthrough as they settled for a point apiece in a hard-fought 1-1 draw in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
Up next, Toronto FC return home to host New England Revolution on Saturday, August 15. Kick-off from BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario is set for 7:30 p.m. ET and will be broadcast globally in English and Spanish on Apple TV and on TSN in Canada.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK CITY FC \u2013 Matt Freese; Tayvon Gray, Thiago Martins (C) (Mitja Ileni\u010d 86\u2019), James Sands, Nico Cavallo; Jonathan Shore, Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez (Seymour Reid 86\u2019), Andr\u00e9s Perea; Agust\u00edn Ojeda (Hannes Wolf 59\u2019), B\u00e9nie Traor\u00e9 (Malachi Jones 59\u2019), Talles Magno (M\u00e1ximo Carrizo 70\u2019)
Substitutes Not Used: Tom\u00e1s Romero, Kevin Pierre, Cooper Flax, Max Murray<\/p>\n
TORONTO FC \u2013 Luka Gavran; Kobe Franklin, Walker Zimmerman, Jackson Gilman, Richie Laryea; Jonathan Osorio (C), Niklas Dorsch (Alonso Coello 71\u2019), Theo Corbeanu (Malik Henry 87\u2019), Djordje Mihailovic (Derrick Etienne Jr. 71\u2019), D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i; Josh Sargent (Deandre Kerr 71\u2019)
Substitutes Not Used: William Yarbrough, Benjam\u00edn Kuscevic, Raheem Edwards, Emilio Aristiz\u00e1bal, Jules-Anthony Vilsaint<\/p>\n
Niklas Dorsch made his Toronto FC\u00a0debut as a starter, becoming the 14th\u00a0player to debut for the Reds this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto FC (3W-7L-8T, 17 points) wrapped up their four-match road trip with a tightly contested 1-1 draw against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302,16526],"class_list":["post-840196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840196","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=840196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}