Only a win will satisfy the home supporters in this BMO Field clash with Portland Timbers, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the Major League Soccer table.
Toronto and Portland Timbers should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Portland Timbers have a different surface at their stadium (artificial turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 7-6-17 (win-draw-loss) from 30 matches. It's quite the trip for Portland Timbers when visiting Toronto as the cities are 4200 kilometers apart.
Toronto form and stats
When playing at home, Toronto, who have the most scored goals (18) in Major League Soccer, have managed 3 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.Toronto's last game was hosting Minnesota United and winning 4-3. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Seattle Sounders (2-3).
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Toronto is on fire here. A stunning 13 from 4 matches. Toronto have conceded 7 from these games.
Portland Timbers form and stats
There's been little loot from Portland Timbers's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 7 away games. Portland Timbers only has 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 1 draw.Portland Timbers play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Columbus Crew. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Dallas wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.
Portland Timbers are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 7 games. Portland Timbers are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 9 goals in these matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's 4 Toronto victories, 2 draws and 3 Portland Timbers wins.Top Goalscorers
  J. Altidore 5 goals / 2 assists |  Pozuelo 4 goals / 4 assists |
Toronto missing players
Portland Timbers missing players
| Toronto | Portland Timbers | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 6 | 4 | Played | 7 | 7 |
| 18 | 13 | Scored | 9 | 9 |
| 11 | 7 | Conceded | 18 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | 43% | 43% |
| 50% | 50% | Over 4.5 | 29% | 29% |
| 83% | 75% | Both teams to score | 71% | 71% |
| 17% | 25% | Clean Sheet | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | Failed To Score | 29% | 29% |
| 5 | 5 | Corners For (avg) | 5.1 | 5.1 |
| 5.2 | 4 | Corners Against (avg) | 6 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 2.1 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | Red Cards (total) | 2 | 2 |
- Neither of the teams have played a single 0-0 game.
- Toronto has scored in all of their 4 home matches.
- Portland Timbers has failed to keep a clean sheet in 7 matches.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | DC United | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 2 | Toronto | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 13 |
| 3 | Philadelphia Union | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 13 |
| 4 | Columbus Crew | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| 5 | Orlando City | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 11 |
| 6 | Montreal Impact | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -6 | 11 |
| 7 | Chicago Fire | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | Cincinnati | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 9 | New England | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -6 | 7 |
| 10 | New York RB | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 5 |
| 11 | Atlanta United | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 5 |
| 12 | New York City | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 5 |
