Greg Vanney hardly had to time to get his head around an Eastern Conference final game without Jozy Altidore and Sebastian Giovinco when he was asked how his team would manage without its two star strikers.
The coach was still fuming about an hour after Altidore was given a red card — one that came with an automatic one-game suspension — for his part in a half-time tunnel tussle in the second leg of the conference semifinal against New York Red Bulls on Sunday, a decision the club planned to appeal. It didn’t help that Giovinco was also out the first leg of the Eastern final against the Columbus Crew after accumulating a pair of yellow cards against New York.