Toronto FC’s 2017 playoff campaign is yet to catch fire like the one in 2016 did.
For all the talk of the need for a new creative midfielder in the aftermath of last year’s final, the bitter irony of Toronto’s failure to break the deadlock against the Seattle Sounders was that they had been in the scoring form of their lives during the postseason up until that point.
The signing of Victor Vazquez has undoubtedly paid off, helping the Reds increase their regular-season goalscoring total from 51 to a remarkable 74, but in the playoffs things have gone in the other direction.