{"id":875007,"date":"2026-08-28T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:18:14","slug":"toronto-fc-vs-new-york-city-fc-what-you-need-to-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875007\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto FC vs. New York City FC: 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\">TFC will try to extend their unbeaten run to five consecutive games when they host NYCFC in their regular season series finale.<\/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\/2026\/08\/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\/08\/TFCvs.NYCMihailovic-2--3-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto FC vs. New York City FC: What you need to know\"\/><br \/>\n            TFC&#8217;s Djordje Mihailovic. (Photo courtesy of Toronto FC)<\/p>\n<p>A small surge has elevated Toronto FC back into the thick of the playoff race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A surprising\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/august-22-toronto-fc-inter-miami\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2-1 road win<\/a>\u00a0over Inter Miami last Saturday extended TFC&#8217;s unbeaten streak to four games, allowed them to take seven out of nine points from three matches, and moved them into a tie with Orlando City for the ninth and final post-season berth in the Eastern Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is also getting very close to full fitness after being decimated by injuries since the start of the season, all of which has led to a new attitude around the training ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that there&#8217;s so much more belief now. I think having guys back, [the] level of training has been higher. Competition has made everyone, I think, play better, and as a result the belief is higher,&#8221; coach Robin Fraser said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know about Saturday&#8217;s game between Toronto and New York City FC at BMO Field (7:30 p.m. ET\/Apple TV).\u00a0 \u00a0\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 TFC will try to extend their unbeaten run to five consecutive games when they host NYCFC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-875007","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\/875007","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=875007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}