Left So Crossfooted

By Ben Knight Onward!

Goalless in Seattle
Wasted opportunities and a fortunate escape. That’s the oddly unsurprising tale of Toronto FC’s 0-0 saw-off in Seattle.

Anyone who still thinks scoreless soccer is uneventful obviously missed this one. The Torontos, weakened by yellow-card suspensions to both holding midfielder Carl Robinson and back-line hard man Adrian Serioux, clearly took the field believing that a rampant offence could at least be an adequate defence.

Almost immediately, Dwayne DeRosario rounded Sounders’ netkeep Casey Kellar, but was left so cross-footed that his tough-angle right-footer at a gaping empty goal actually went wide after smacking into his own left foot.

Then DeRo hooked an utterly gorgeous outswinging cross perfectly to the head of a diving Chad Barrett – who missed.

Next thing you know, Amado Guevara rockets one off the crossbar, and it’s all Toronto and the shell-shocked Sounders are lucky not be down at least a pair. CBC commentators Nigel Reed and Jason DeVos actually said the Redcoats were “in ascendency” three times in under two minutes.

Ah, but that which ascends ….

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