FC Cincinnati beat Toronto, 2-1, on Saturday, recording its third win over the Reds in the club’s MLS history. Cincinnati has six wins against the two Canadian teams in the Eastern Conference (3 each vs. Toronto and Montreal), more than one-third of the club’s all-time MLS wins (17).
FC Cincinnati’s 2-1 win over Toronto on Saturday was its third victory of the season, one fewer than it managed all of last season. Cincinnati has won three of its last seven matches after recording just three wins in its previous 31 games.
Toronto FC is winless in 12 straight away matches (D4 L8) dating back to a 2-1 win in Chicago last July. Toronto has had only three longer road winless runs in the club’s MLS history, most recently a 14-game run in 2012-13.
Luciano Acosta has scored in back-to-back matches, netting against Los Angeles FC and Toronto. The only player in team history to score in three straight matches in a single season was Brandon Vázquez, who did so in October 2021.
Jesús Jiménez scored his seventh goal of the season in Toronto’s defeat to Cincinnati on Saturday, his third straight game with at least one goal. The only Toronto players with more goals in their first nine appearances of a season are Jermain Defoe (8 in 2014) and Dwayne De Rosario (8 in 2010).
