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THE BASICS
Houston Dynamo at Toronto FC
Saturday, April 20, 3 p.m. CT
BMO Field, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BROADCAST INFORMATION
KPRC Local 2 - 3 p.m. (2:30 pregame)
Yahoo! 1560 AM - 3 p.m. (2:30 pregame)
La Ranchera 850 - 3 p.m. (2:30 pregame)
REFEREES
Drew Fischer. AR1 (bench): Joe Fletcher; AR2 (opposite): Claudio Badea; 4th: Mathieu Bourdeau MLS Career: 10 games; FC/gm: 26.9; Y/gm: 2.5; R: 0; pens: 4
INJURY REPORT
HOUSTON DYNAMO -- OUT: Calen Carr - Left knee; Tyler Deric - Left ankle sprain; QUESTIONABLE: Boniek Garcia - Left Achilles tendonitis
HEAD-TO-HEAD
- ALL-TIME (13 meetings): Toronto FC 3 wins, 13 goals ... Dynamo 4 wins, 19 goals ... Ties 6 AT TORONTO (6 meetings): Toronto FC 2 wins, 6 goals ... Dynamo 1 win, 6 goals ... Ties 3
- RETURN MATCH: 6/22: Houston Dynamo vs. Toronto FC, 8 p.m. CT
- LAST YEAR (MLS):
- 6/20: HOU 3, TOR 3 (Boswell 20; Bruin 73, 90 - J. Hall 13; Koevermans 22, 45) 7/28: TOR 0, HOU 2 (Carr 45; Ching 86)
- 8/25: HOU 1, TOR 1 (Bruin 21 - Dunfield 85)
- The Dynamo have a four-game undefeated streak alive vs. Toronto FC, winning once with a pair of draws - both at BBVA Compass Stadium - a season ago.
- The Dynamo win at BMO Field last July 28, a 2-0 victory, was the club's first ever on the shores of Lake Ontario. TFC had won two of the first five meetings there, with three draws.
- Coaches record: Ryan Nelsen vs. HOU: first game ... Dominic Kinnear v TOR: P13 W4 L3 D6
PREGAME READING:
STARTING LINEUPS:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Starting XI; Hall; Sarkodie, Boswell, Taylor, Ashe; Driver, Moffat, Clark, Davis (C); Barnes, Bruin. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23TORvHOU">#TORvHOU</a></p>— Dynamo Theory (@dynamotheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/dynamotheory/status/325687536628400129">April 20, 2013</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Substitutes: Marscheider, Brunner, Creavalle, Camargo, Garcia, Johnson, Ching. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23TORvHOU">#TORvHOU</a></p>— Dynamo Theory (@dynamotheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/dynamotheory/status/325687632887705601">April 20, 2013</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>