Toronto FC has won four of its six all-time matches against FC Cincinnati (L2), through both of Cincinnati’s wins came last season. Toronto won the last meeting, 3-2, at home in September, as the Reds have won both of their meetings against Cincinnati in Toronto (also 2-1 in 2019).
Toronto’s 5-4 defeat to New York City on Sunday was just the 20th time in MLS history that a match featured at least nine combined goals and the first time one of those involved Toronto.
After back-to-back wins in mid-March, FC Cincinnati has just one point from its last four games. Cincinnati has just three wins in its last 33 games (D8 L22) dating back to the start of July 2021, though one of those was against Toronto, a 2-0 win last September.
Jesús Jiménez scored twice in Toronto’s loss to NYCFC on Sunday taking his total to six goals on the year. No Toronto player scored more than four times during the entire 2021 regular season.
Luciano Acosta scored his second goal of the season in FC Cincinnati’s loss to Los Angeles FC on Sunday. Acosta is one of three FC Cincinnati players with a goal this season (excluding own goals), the fewest players with a goal of any MLS team this season.
