TORONTO — One hears it all too often in sports. These teams really don't like each other.
On Saturday night, Toronto FC and New York City FC offered definitive proof of their bad blood in an ill-tempered affair that featured seven yellow cards, one red and an ugly post-game melee likely to trigger additional discipline.Trailing 2-0 at the half, Toronto mounted a comeback and cut the New York lead to 3-2 with a Raoul Petretta strike in the 89th minute.
Toronto captain Jonathan Osorio, Deybi Flores, Matty Longstaff and Kosi Thompson joined Owusu and Johnson in the middle of the melee. And now the backstory from Herdman and Osorio, who arrived together in a show of solidarity at the Toronto post-game media availability. "Then when we hear that the coach and three of their players corner a 19-year-old of ours, by himself. That's when there's a problem," Osorio said."And I think that kind of carried over this game, probably from their side as well … We were just letting them know that we didn't forget about that."
"Sean as any person , you're going to react," said Osorio."And that's how it starts. I understand maybe our emotions got the best of us a little bit and we were talking, but we weren't being physical or nothing. But this is the second time now they've gone physical now with our players.Johnson, a 16-year veteran, is one of TFC's leaders and usually the picture of calm. But he was red-hot Saturday.
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