Toronto FC (3W-3L-5T, 14 points) battled to a 1-1 draw against the Western Conference and Supporters\u2019 Shield leaders San Jose Earthquakes (9W-1L-1T, 28 points) on Saturday afternoon, courtesy of D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i\u2019s early goal in their True North Match at BMO Field.<\/p>\n
Prior to kick-off, Toronto FC and BMO formally handed the keys of the stadium over to Canada Soccer in a pre-game ceremony featuring Kevin Blue, CEO & General Secretary of Canada Soccer, Catherine Roche, CMO of BMO, Jason Hernandez, TFC General Manager, and Jimmy Brennan, TFC alumni ambassador, former club captain, and Canadian international as part of the club\u2019s True North Match celebrations.<\/p>\n
TFC Head Coach Robin Fraser made three changes from his side against Atlanta United last weekend with Lazar Stefanovic, Markus Cimermancic and Malik Henry coming in for Benjam\u00edn Kuscevic, Jos\u00e9 Cifuentes and Josh Sargent.<\/p>\n
The Reds flew out of the traps and opened the scoring early against the league leaders, as D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i curled home past San Jose goalkeeper Daniel following a neat midfield link-up between Markus Cimermancic and Jonathan Osorio in the build-up.<\/p>\n
The strike, just 110 seconds after the opening whistle, marked Sall\u00f3i\u2019s team-leading fourth goal of the season and Cimermancic\u2019s first assist for Toronto FC.<\/p>\n
San Jose Earthquakes equalized in the 13th minute, when Preston Judd turned home Niko Tsakiris\u2019s free-kick.<\/p>\n
Toronto FC II defender Micah Chisholm, who signed a Short-Term Agreement with Toronto FC prior to the match, made his club debut at the start of the second half, replacing Lazar Stefanovic in the heart of the Reds\u2019 defence.<\/p>\n
Quakes\u2019 Preston Judd thought he had his second of the afternoon in the 64th minute, but the offside flag denied the visitors after the forward found the back of the net from close-range.<\/p>\n
Toronto FC came within millimetres of a late breakthrough in the 86th minute, only for D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i\u2019s lob, set up by Derrick Etienne\u2019s perfectly weighted through ball, to be acrobatically cleared off the goal line by San Jose\u2019s Reid Roberts.<\/p>\n
Both sides exchanged goalscoring chances down the stretch, but neither could find a late winner, ultimately settling for a point apiece at BMO Field.<\/p>\n
Next up, Toronto FC turn their focus to domestic honours as they host Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa of the Canadian Premier League in the 2026 TELUS Canadian Championship on Tuesday evening. The preliminary round match-up kicks off at 7:30 p.m. ET at BMO Field and will be broadcast on OneSoccer across Canada.<\/p>\n
TORONTO FC \u2013 Luka Gavran; Kobe Franklin, Zane Monlouis (Walker Zimmerman 90+5\u2019), Lazar Stefanovic (Micah Chisholm 46\u2019),, Raheem Edwards; Markus Cimermancic (Antone Bossenberry 76\u2019), Alonso Coello, Jonathan Osorio (C); Malik Henry (Derrick Etienne Jr. 68\u2019), D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i, Emilio Aristizabal (Deandre Kerr 68\u2019)
Substitutes Not Used: William Yarbrough, Adisa de Rosario, Jahmarie Nolan, Fletcher Bank<\/p>\n
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES \u2013 Daniel; Benji Kikanovic, Daniel Munie, Reid Roberts, Jamar Ricketts; Ronaldo Vieira (C), Beau Leroux, Ousseni Bouda, Niko Tsakiris (Nick Fernandez 54\u2019), Jack Skahan (Ian Harkes 66\u2019); Preston Judd (Paul Marie 66\u2019)
Substitutes Not Used: Nathan Crockford, Dave Romney, Jack Jasinski, Max Floriani, Jonathan Gonz\u00e1lez, Nonso Adimabua<\/p>\n
Markus Cimermancic recorded his first assist for Toronto FC.
\nToronto FC II defender Micah Chisholm made his TFC debut as a 46th minute substitute, becoming the eighth player to debut for the Reds this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto FC (3W-3L-5T, 14 points) battled to a 1-1 draw against the Western Conference and Supporters\u2019 Shield leaders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,12819],"class_list":["post-297141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-toronto-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}