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Saturday, March 29, 2014

AFTER 90: Utah taints

Kyle Beckerman: He knows he's pretty

REAL SALT LAKE - 3
Alvaro Saborio - 11' (PK)
Luis Gil - 28'
Alvaro Saborio - 55'

TORONTO FC - 0


WHAT WE EXPECTED: The toughest test TFC would face so far this season and most likely a difficult loss in a match where The Reds would see little possession.
WHAT WE GOT: Some pretty fuggo stuff. Disjointed, overly-scrappy and tactically lacking. RSL is a quality club but if Toronto FC want to play with the big boys this season they can't trot too many of these out.

THE GOOD:
- Michael Bradley just can't stop. Win, lose or draw that engine keeps going.
- The Bradley to striker laser-passes are still working.
- They don't get pushed around.

THE BAD:
- Slow starts to both halves becoming a theme for TFC this season.
- Defensive composure from first two matches not on show tonight.
- Steven Caldwell's studs-up challenge on Ned Grabavoy could end up costing him further if MLS Head Office reviews it.
- Jermain Defoe came off in the 60th minute holding his leg - possibly hamstring related.
- Out possessed by massive margin and even if you don't rate that stat - did little with the possession they did have.
- The feared depth issues reared their heads in a big way. None of the starting 11 replacements had any kind of impact.

THE MALARKEY:
- Kyle Beckerman's dreads have gone full-out natty. The family of possums now living inside it are said to be healthy and happy.
- Looks like The Osmond Family have won this round of their vicious rap fued with Drake.
- Ned Grabavoy still has the perviest sounding name in MLS. Steven Caldwell may have been doing a Nightline investigation.
- John Stockton shorty-short-shorts spotted: 0

PLAYER RATINGS:
Julio Cesar 6 / Bradley Orr 4.5 (SUB: 60' Issey Nakajima-Farran 5) / Steven Caldwell 6 / Doneil Henry 5 / Justin Morrow 5.5 / Mark Bloom 4.5 / Michael Bradley 6.5 / Jeremy Hall 5 (SUB: 78' Kyle Bekker ) / Alvaro Rey 5.5 / Gilberto 5.5 / Jermain Defoe 6.5 (SUB: 61' Dwayne De Rosario 5 )

THE YORKIES' TFC MAN OF THE MATCH:
Michael Bradley
  
 The long and the short shorts of it

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