With back to back
Eastern Conference finals won in the past campaigns and delivering a wondrous
campaign after finishing with a league high 69 points and a Supporters shield and
now the Eastern Conference trophy.
The TFC is aiming now
at the big one and granddaddy of shields the MLS Cup, but now they have to wait
for their possible nemesis of last campaign the Seattle Sounders, these near another
repeat.
As you recall last
MLS final between these two going into the heartbreaking and disputed penalty kicks
which the visiting Sounders seized for their first league shield.
Now it’s payback time
for the Reds to get even in what many see as an all-around rematch if the Sounders
hold to their 2-0 lead these delivered over the Dynamo at Houston and we see an
encore of last year finals.
So far, Greg Vanney
has two trophies in the campaign and looking forward to the third one with the
coveted league shield that last year he and his bunch were so close of seizing
it and lost it, but this 2017 is a completely different story.
Coming to the finals
to play again in BMO Field in Toronto, the Reds come with the labels of all
around favorites and the team to beat as in the postseason these did play a bit
conservative and saving their arsenal for the end.
This time the aim is
not win the league but to among the first Canadian squads that play in the league
to do such a feat over their cross town foes Montreal Impact coming to league
play in 2012 and the Vancouver Whitecaps
in 2011.
The TFC considered
one of the Canadian squad hit with hard luck since their inception to MLS in 2007;
it took this club to make it into their first postseason until the arrival of Greg
Vanney.
Seeing in his second
year at the helm of the TFC the club first playoff appearance in 2015 and
eliminated in the knockout rounds by their 401 foes the Montreal Impact.
However, in 2016, these
made it all the way into the league finals after winning the East defeating the
Montreal Impact in a rematch of last campaign winning the East and now in 2017
after taking the league by storm, they are back in the finals.
Very well seeing how
manager Greg Vanney named MLS Coach of the year, what else can you ask to a
club winning campaign but just missing the shield and by doing so they will
write their own history?
In addition, the arsenal
in this intimal eleven in Jozy Altidore and Sebastian Giovinco their top guns
and frontal attack, that despite Jozy’s injury he may be ready for the final on
the 9th as well their midfield attack lead by Michael Bradley.
Weapons galore in
this squad roster and its starting eleven where manager Vanney utilizes a 5-3-2
or 3-5-2 formations, which one of these will the ideal to stop whoever their
rival from the West comes from.
At the end kudos to a
determined Jozy Altidore that despite, his injuries he was carrying at the end
he was the hero of the match with the lone score in the 60-minute and seeing a
top of the line defense locking this up for the win and a trip to another
league finals.
Will Canada have in this
representative a first MLS Cup?
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