Toronto FC vs. New England Revolution
Date: Saturday 14 August
Time: 8:00pm EDT
Location: BMO Field, Toronto, ON
TV: TSN 4
Referee: TBA
Toronto FC Recent Form: DLDWD
New England Recent Form: WDWWW
Previous 5 Meetings: TFC 3W-2D-0W NER
Toronto FC Suspensions: None
New England Suspensions: None
Toronto FC Injury Report: Ayo Akinola (ACL), Tsubasa Endoh (Lower Body), Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty (Unknown)
New England Injury Report: Luis Caicedo (Lower Body), Carles Gil (muscular)
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A top vs. bottom clash at BMO. The Revolution enter tomorrow's match with the best record in MLS. With 40 points, the Revs have a healthy 6 point lead over Sporting Kansas City in the Supporters' Shield standings. Meanwhile, Toronto FC will enter the game with the worst record in MLS. With only 15 points, the Reds are propping up the rest of the league. However with 4 other teams on 16 points, TFC can lift themselves up with a positive result tomorrow. Link
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TFC has had success recently when playing against New England. The Revs last win in the series was in May of 2018, since then TFC have won 4 and drawn 2, including a 3-2 victory in Foxborough last month, which was Javier Perez's first match as TFC manager. Link
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Speaking of Javier Perez, this week TFC removed the interim tag from his Manager role. The Spaniard took over control of the squad firing the sacking of Chris Armas last month. In his 7 games in charge of TFC, he's guided the reds to a record of 2 wins, 4 draws and a loss. Link
New England Revolution vs. Toronto FC
Date: Wednesday 7 July
Time: 7:00pm EDT
Location: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA
TV: TSN 1/4
Referee: Rosendo Mendoza
Toronto FC Recent Form: LLLLL
New England Recent Form: DLWWW
Previous 5 Meetings: TFC 3W-2D-0W NER
Toronto FC Suspensions: Eriq Zavaleta (Red Card in last match)
New England Suspensions: None
Toronto FC Injury Report: Ifunanyachi Achara (ACL), Julian Dunn (Hip)
New England Injury Report: Luis Caicedo (Lower Body)
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On Sunday, Toronto FC sacked manager Chris Armas. Link The short tenure is leaves Armas as the manager with the worst record based on PPG in TFC history. Link
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Saturday's loss was TFC's worst league defeat ever. The margin of defeat matches a 6-0 loss to Montreal in the Canadian Championship in 2013. Link
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Assistant Coach Javier Perez will lead the team in New England. The Spaniard was the manager of the USA under-18's from 2012-2015, and has been an assistant for the USA senior national team, as well as NYCFC and the Real Madrid youth teams. Link
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Both Alejandro Pozuelo and Yeferson Soteldo will be available on Wednesday. Link
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While not confirmed yet, Ayo Akinola, Richie Laryea, Jonathan Osorio (Canada), Kemar Lawrence (Jamaica), Eriq Zavaleta (El Salvador) will all likely miss this game and a few going forward because of Gold Cup duty. An Instagram story posted by Alphonso Davies, showed Richie Laryea already in Kansas City for the tournament, which is a sign that at least the Canadian players will be unavailable. Link
Many of you know of YPJ & YPG, so this is a brief history. After the Syrians rose up against Bashar Assad, the people of north eastern Syria, mostly the Kurds, started a revolution against years of oppression. It was at this time ISIS appeared and there was no one to stop them from expanding. So the Kurds started taking arms to defend themselves and created YPG (People's Protection Units, all are men) and YPJ (Women's Protection Units). These forces not only defended Rojava but, with the help of the Western Coalition formed against ISIS, drove the final nail in ISIS' coffin and defeated them. They later participated in the killing of the leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Despite working with the Western Coalition, these forces have been attacked multiple times Turkey, and Assad too await the moment the Coalition leave Syria completely so that he can end the Revolution.
To prevent this Rojava (formally Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria) should have an internationally recognized status and now is the time to have that.
#Support the movement tonight with this hashtag on social media
#( #Status4NorthAndEastSyria)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Status4NorthAndEastSyria?s=09
#Mazloum Kobani, the general commander of SDF (YPJ & YPG)
https://twitter.com/MazloumAbdi/status/1416477241853284356?s=19
> July 18 2012 at 8 p.m. we decided upon the Rojava Revolution. We congratulate all peoples of North and East Syria on this day. The Rojava Revolution protected our people and the world from the darkness of ISIS, but now the time has come to enthronement the revolution.
> Let's launch tomorrow together at 8 p.m. the campaign to further strengthen the struggle to guarantee the future of North and East Syria. Our campaign will be led on social media and will reach every institution worldwide.
Thanks
