Priso’s second half goal pulls Toronto FC to Atlanta

Toronto — Jonathan Osorio scored early and Toronto FC beat Atlanta United 2-1 on Saturday, adding Ralph Prizo to the final winner.

Osorio scored eight minutes after Jayden Nelson’s pass led him to the box, defeating the defender and passing Atlanta goalkeeper Rocco Rios Novo.

Luis de Araujo put an end to Atlanta’s aggressive pain in the 57th minute, ran through the right side of the field, passed the defenders and drew a one-on-one draw over Toronto’s Quentin Westberg.

Priso found the other side of the net in the 78th minute and was able to break the stalemate in Major League Soccer.

Toronto (5-8-3) has improved to 5-3-0 in BMO Field and enjoys most of this season’s success. Toronto FC will host Columbus Crew on Wednesday as the team will continue their five-game homestand.

Toronto has won one of the last eight games. On May 28th, I won the Chicago Fire at home. Won CF Montréal 4-0 in the Canadian Championship semi-finals on Wednesday. This season, it was built on the slightest momentum it was able to gain.

Despite the three goals of both teams, the match did not miss a scoring chance.

Atlanta went through much of the match, putting the ball on the goal and struggling to connect to each other with a pass from the corner and a free kick.

Toronto, on the other hand, had a significant portion of the chances it was near the goal and missed at the goal.

In the 12th minute, Nelson took advantage of the man to push the ball upfield and eventually found Osorio down to the left, but tried to beat the defender at the border of the goal line, leaving the ball out of bounds. became. He missed on the net again two minutes later.

Forward Hess Jimenez, one of MLS’s top scorers, also missed some opportunities of his own.

Italy’s international Lorenzo Insigne was attending the game as the crowd gave him big applause and cheers when displayed on the big screen. The 31-year-old, who signed with Toronto FC earlier this year, was officially introduced to fans on Friday. He will make his debut on July 9th.