If the back-and-forth between TFC’s Chris Mavinga and New York Red Bulls’ midfielder Sasha Kljestan in leg one of the Eastern Conference semifinal on Monday proved surprising, it shouldn’t be.
Mavinga has something to prove, and that didn’t end with the culmination of the regular season.
“I just want to be better and better every game and show all the people I’m still a good player,” he said last week, before Toronto went up 2-1 over New York in the opening away leg. “Before I came here, I didn’t play much. There was questions of me, if I could be still a good player or not.